AMARILLO, AARON BEN SOLOMON — (1700–1772), halakhic authority and kabbalist. Amarillo was born and spent his whole life in Salonika. He studied under David Serero, one of the great Salonikan halakhic authorities of his day. On the death of Isaac b. Shangi in 1761, he was… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
BEER, AARON — (1739–1821), German cantor, composer, and collector. Beer was born near Bamberg and was known as der Bamberger ḥazzan. He had a tenor voice of unusually wide range. While still a youth he became cantor of the Paderborn congregation and at the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
IRĀQĪ, ELEAZAR BEN AARON HA-KOHEN° — (d. 1864), Yemenite indian scholar and printer. Though born in Cochin, India, before 1816, ʿ Irāqī was of Yemenite parentage. He spent most of his life in Calcutta where he served as teacher, ḥazzan, and shoḥet in the new Jewish community. He… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
MANN, ABRAHAM AARON OF POSNAN — (mid 17th century), Hebrew writer. Mann, who was a ḥazzan in Poznan, wrote a short work, Urim ve Tummim (Amsterdam, 1653), dealing with such matters as the proper way to fulfill the ethical commandments, repentance, and the way to achieve the … … Encyclopedia of Judaism
URI (Phoebus) BEN AARON HA-LEVI — (also called Uri Witzenhausen or Witmund; 1625–1715), Hebrew printer. Uri s father was ḥazzan of the Neveh Shalom congregation, Amsterdam, and his grandfather Moses Uri ha Levi, rabbi of Emden and one of the founders of the Portuguese Jewish… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Troki (famille) — Les Troki sont une famille de Sages karaïtes (un courant juif scripturaliste, opposé au judaïsme rabbinique traditionnel), tirant leur nom de la ville de Trakai, sise dans le gouvernement de Wilna (actuelle Lituanie). Les membres les plus… … Wikipédia en Français
Joseph ibn Ezra — Rabbi Josef ben Isaac ibn Ezra was an oriental rabbi of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, descended from Ibn Ezra family of Spain. Brought up in Salonica, he studied under the direction of Rabbi Samuel de Medina, and became head of the… … Wikipedia
Joseph ibn Ezra — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Ibn Ezra et Ezra (homonymie). Joseph ben Isaac ibn Ezra est un rabbin et talmudiste réputé des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Éléments biographiques Descendant de la famille espagnole Ibn Ezra, il est formé à… … Wikipédia en Français
MUSIC — This article is arranged according to the following outline: introduction written sources of direct and circumstantial evidence the material relics and iconography notated sources oral tradition archives and important collections of jewish music… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
PIYYUT — (Heb. פִּיּוּט; plural: piyyutim; from the Greek ποιητής), a lyrical composition intended to embellish an obligatory prayer or any other religious ceremony, communal or private. In a wider sense, piyyut is the totality of compositions composed in … Encyclopedia of Judaism
