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Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alṭaras, Refaʼel Yitsḥaḳ, author, compiler.

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Term Fund .

Library at the Katz Center Special Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

Baḳ, Yiśraʼel, 1797-1874, printer.

Language:

Hebrew

Ladino

Subjects (All):

Ḥevrat Ṿa-yeʻetar Yitsḥaḳ (Jerusalem).

Hymns, Hebrew--19th century--Texts.

Hymns, Hebrew.

Sephardim--Jerusalem--19th century--Hymns.

Sephardim.

Local Subjects:

Ḥevrat Ṿa-yeʻetar Yitsḥaḳ (Jerusalem).

Penn Provenance:

Tag'ir, Mosheh ben Yitsḥaḳ (manuscript) (autograph) (Libra Katz Rare BM679.H4 A58 1854)

Physical Description:

63 leaves ; 16 cm

Manufacture:

Yerushalayim : Nidpas ʻa.y. ... Yiśraʼel Baḳ, [5]615 [1854 or 1855]

ירושלם : נדפס ע"י הרב ישראל ב"ק, שנת וראה ב'ט'ו'ב' י'ר'ו'ש'ל'י'ם' לפ"ק

Other Title:

Ṿa-yeʻetar Yitsḥaḳ

ויעתר יצחק

Language Note:

In Hebrew; a portion of hymns translated to Ladino (f. 12v-15v).

Summary:

A compendium of the bakashot (hymns) sung in the Kahal Zion Synagogue (also known as the Emtsai Synagogue) in the Old City of Jerusalem; see Seroussi, p. 106.

Notes:

Approbations: Yaʻaḳov Shaʼul Elyashar and Yosef Pisante; additional letter by Albert Cohn (1814-1877), translated to Hebrew.

Many bakashot authored by Israel Najara; order brought by the author to Kahal Zion from Aleppo, Syria, upon his emigration (circa 1845).

Local Notes:

Libra Katz Rare BM679.H4 A58 1854: Purchased from Kestenbaum & Company, Auction 53 (8 December 2011), lot 171 (Elis & Ruth Douer Term Fund); bound in contemporary boards; front board partially missing; Cyrillic language library stamp in blue ("БИБЛИОТЕКА..."; possibly in the Balkans ("б.а.h.").. Early manuscript sheet bound in, written in the hand of Mosheh ben Yitsḥaḳ Tag'ir (משה בן יצחק טאג'יר), recording the death of his wife Rinah (רינה), and his subsequent donation of her jewlery to the Jerusalem synagogue ("...מי יתן מותי תחתיה והגביר הנז׳ …הקדיש כל נכסי הבת הנז׳ ובנה בה׳׳כ הגדולה אשר תוככי עיר׳׳ק ירושלים תובב׳׳א באבני שישה ומרמרה וכמה מפוארה ותיקן אלולשורר בקול נעים ולעשות נח׳׳ב לנפש בנותיו...").

Cited in:

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Jerusalem 83

Halevi, S. Ha-Sefarim ha-Ivriyim she-nidpesu bi-Yerushalayim / The Printed Hebrew Books in Jerusalem During the First Half Century (1841-1891), 54

Yaari, A. Reshimat sifre Ladino, 350

Publications about:

Seroussi, E. Le-reshitah shel shirat ha-baḳashot bi-Yerushalayim, in: Peʻamim (No. 56 : 1993), pages 106-124 ; image of title page -- page 117.

OCLC:

23252297

Online:

The Elis & Ruth Douer Term Fund Home Page