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The Ma Nishtanah page from the Sarajevo Haggadah (source: Talmud.de)
To all my Jewish readers I wish a zis’n Peysach (” a sweet Passover”). I hope you enjoyed wonderful seders tonight and the same for tomorrow for those of you who do second seders.
Today, April 20th at 7PM Pacific time, KBCS will rebroadcast a one [...]

Hazzan Issac Azoze is the emeritus cantor of Seattle’s Congregation Ezra Besarroth, a community of Jews from the island of Rhodes (or ‘Rhodeslis’ as they are known). He recorded the 2-CD Liturgy of Ezra Bessaroth in 1999. He’s graciously provided me the mp3 file I’m featuring for this post, Ma Nishtanah (hear it) [...]

In 1995, a Jewish neonatologist decided that the world needed a Jewish answer to the Gregorian chant craze that was sweeping the music world at the time. His answer was Chants Mystique: Hidden Treasures of a Living Tradition. The recording features Sephardic cantor Alberto Mizrahi’s undeniably gorgeous tenor voice under the baton of [...]

Here’s the second in my series on Passover music. Like the first entry, I’m keeping with the wonderful seder tune, Had Gayda (or as Western Wind transliterates the title, Chad Gadyo). But unlike Yehoram Gaon’s Sephardic version of the song tonight we’ll hear a version written by the famed American Jewish composer, Moishe [...]

As I’ve written here, I’m hoping to do a KBCS radio special on Passover music (just waiting to get some studio time to prepare the show). I’ve decided to try to upload a different Pesach song each day between now and Pesach. Tonight, we hear from Yehoram Gaon’s seminal 1975 album of Sephardic [...]