Sacred songs - Mother Tongue

Afghanistan

Herat

'Dayenu' ("it would have sufficed us”) from Afghanistan

Algeria

Constantine

Poem for breaking the matza and 'Ha Laḥma ʿAnya' from Constantine

Shochne bate homer in Arabic

Yearning song for Hakadosh Baruch Hu (Almighty)

El Oued (Souf)

Greeting song for girl: "May she see the Messiah"

Bukhara

Israel

A love song from Psalms

Karaki

A love song from Psalms

Samarkand

Every day I praise You

Oh Lord, awaken those who sleep

Passover Haggada songs

Rock of my redeemer

Tashkent

Passover Haggada songs

Caucasus

Baku

Zionist song "Beautiful Israel"

Quba

Zionist song "Beautiful Israel"

Ethiopia

Gondar

Longing for Jerusalem

Europe: Eastern

Dubasari (Moldova)

The wedding house

Dunaivtsi (Ukraine)

"I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness"

Odesa (Ukraine)

American Hassidic song - Ne obizshayte

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ in Russian - Ekh ty, zemliak

Moses Rejoiced: folk piyyut in Hebrew and in Yiddish

Pleading song - Avromuniu, Avromuniu

Silly Hassidic song - Ne zshurite khloptsi

Song about fathers - Avrom sivyy

Slavuta (Ukraine)

Melody

Soroca (Moldova)

I am going to the Rabbi (Ikh for tsum rebn)

Europe: Western

Endingen

'Eḥad Mi Yodea' from Switzerland - (Eins will ich sie kennen)

'Ḥad Gadya' from Switzerland (Ein Lähmchen ein Lähmchen)

Frankfurt (Germany)

The repetition of the cantor: Neʿilah (closing service of Yom Kippur)

Chamol, Od yizkor (Have compassion for Your handiwork, He yet remembers): Yom Kippur Musaf

Untanneh Tokef (let us cede might): Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur musaf

Al Na Tashet ˁAlenu (do not lay upon us): Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Anʿim Zemirot (I shall sweeten songs)

Ashamnu (we have sinned): Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Asher Eimat'cha (though your awe is upon the lofty angels): Yom Kippur Musaf

Ashrei (Psalm of Praise) and Kaddish: Neʿilah (closing service of Yom Kippur)

Avinu Malkeinu (Our Father, Our King)

Barchu, Yotzer Or (Bless the Lord, He who forms light): Yom Kippur Shacharit (morning service)

Be with the double-edged mouths: Yom Kippur Musaf

Blessings of the Shema: Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Chatzi Kaddish (Half Kaddish) after the dew and rain prayer

Conclusion and Kaddish after the Hoshaʿana

Dew and rain prayer

For all things: before the Tora reading for a celebration (especially on Simḥat Tora)

For we are as clay: Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Forgive us, pardon us, grant us atonement: Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Ha-neshama Lach, Darch'cha L'ma'anecha, Ta'ale Aruka (the soul is Yours and the body is Yours, for Your sake, it ascends on a long path): Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Ha-pote'ach Lanu (He who opens for us): piyyut for the Yotzer Or blessing on Yom Kippur

HaYom Harat Olam (on this day, the world came into being), the utterance of our lips: Rosh Hashana Musaf

Hear our voice: Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Kaddish at the end of a prayer service (Mourner's Kaddish): Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Kaddish Shalem (Full Kaddish): Rosh Hashana Musaf

Kaddish Titkabal: conclusion of the Yom Kippur Musaf service

Kaddish: End of Minḥa prayer at Yom Kippur

Kaddish: Neʿilah (closing service of Yom Kippur)

Kaddish: Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Kaddish: Yom Kippur Musaf

Kaddish: Yom Kippur Shacharit (morning service)

Kedusha (Jewish ritual): Yom Kippur Musaf

Kedusha (Jewish ritual): Yom Kippur Shacharit (morning service)

Kol Nidre (prayers for the high holy days) and the opening of Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

May His supplication ascend: Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Ochila Laʾel (I pray to You, dear One): Yom Kippur Musaf

Omnam Ken (indeed, it is true)

Open for us the gate: Neʿilah (closing service of Yom Kippur)

Please forgive me: Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

S'lach u-M’chal, Ma Nomar, Ata Yodeʿa (Forgive and pardon; what shall we say? for You know all): Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Taking out and returning the Tora scroll: the high holy days

The King: Yom Kippur Shacharit (morning service)

The order of the Temple service: Yom Kippur Musaf

The repetition of the cantor: Neʿilah (closing service of Yom Kippur)

The repetition of the cantor: Rosh Hashana Musaf

The repetition of the cantor: Yom Kippur Musaf

The repetition of the cantor: Yom Kippur Shacharit (morning service)

V'al Kulam Eloha S'lichot, S'lach Lanu, M'chal Lanu, Kaper Lanu (and for all these, O God of forgiveness, forgive us, pardon us, grant us atonement): Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Veyeʾetayu (and all shall come to serve thee): Yom Kippur Musaf

What shall we speak, Eleh Ezkerah: Yom Kippur Musaf

Yearly Kaddish (Yahrzeit kaddish): Kaddish at the conclusion of the Shemini Atzeret

Yigdal Elohim Chai (exalted be the living God): Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Zechor Lanu (remember unto us): Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

ˁAlenu le-shabeaḥ: Yom Kippur Musaf

Izmir

Eḥad Mi Yodeʿa and Ḥad Gadya in Judeo-Spanish

Lucerne

'Eḥad Mi Yodea' from Switzerland - (Eins will ich sie kennen)

'Ḥad Gadya' from Switzerland (Ein Lähmchen ein Lähmchen)

Milan

Eḥad Mi Yodeʿa and Ḥad Gadya in Judeo-Spanish

Zurich (Switzerland)

'Eḥad Mi Yodea' from Switzerland - (Eins will ich sie kennen)

'Ḥad Gadya' from Switzerland (Ein Lähmchen ein Lähmchen)

Greece

Aigio

Song for Rosh Ḥodesh Adar

India

Kerala

Iran

Isfahan

Groom's Sabbath song

Song for groom at the wedding

Mashhad

Moshe Rabbeinu and the people of Israel crossing the Red Sea

Shiraz

Teheran

Recitation for the holiday, a song about the establishment of the State of Israel and a story about the Yom Kippur War

Tuyserkan

Song of longing for Israel

קשאן

Recitation for the holiday, a song about the establishment of the State of Israel and a story about the Yom Kippur War

Iraq

Baghdad

Lamentation for Ḥanna and her seven sons on Tishʿa BeʾAv

Erbil

ʿAna

Israel

Jerusalem

Book of ʾEsther and a song for Purim

Kurdistan

Amedi

Fasting, Yom Kippur and Piyyutim

Awena

Song Moshe sings on Passover

Baghdad

Barzan

׳Messianic Age׳

Duhok

Said 'ubed

Messiah ben David song and wedding song

Zakho

Sultana

When the gates of compassion open (ʿet shaʿarei ratzon) - Aramaic translation

׳Messianic Age׳

Lebanon

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

Piyyut for Eliyahu HaNavi after Shabbat

Reading of the Ten Commandments

Libya

Al-Khums

Ḥad Gadya in Arabic from Libya

Leading a bride to the mikve song

Piyyut for Eliyahu HaNavi

Piyyut for the people of Israel

School punishments and learning to sing psalms in three voices

Amrus

Garyan

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ in Arabic from Libya

Ḥad Gadya in Arabic from Libya

Israel

"Let Us Praise" - Passover Piyyut from Libya

Eḥad Mi Yodea' from Libya

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ in Arabic from Libya

Ḥad Gadya in Arabic from Libya

Ḥad Gadya in Arabic from Libya

Msallata

Hillula (celebration) of Rabbi Shimon bar Yoḥai and song in his honora

The celebration in the Bushaeff synagogue at Zeitan moshav (village) and a special song

Tripoli

"Let Us Praise" - Passover Piyyut from Libya

Eḥad Mi Yodea' from Libya

Ḥad Gadya in Arabic from Libya

Morocco

Asammer

Mimouna and Mimouna song

Asilah

Beni Mellal

Song of the righteous

El Kelaa des Sraghna

Fes

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ from Morocco (version I)

B'chol Dor Vador (in every generation) in Arabic from Morocco

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ from Morocco (version II)

Josef the righteous

Passover Haggada from Fes

Vehi Sheʿamda (this kept promise) in Arabic from Morocco

Israel

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and the circle of life

Marrakesh

Songs for brit mila

Melilla

The mornings of King David

ʾAbraham and Nimrod

Midelt

Alternating Piyyut: Hebrew-Arabic

Tangie

Passover Haggada in Judeo-Spanish

Tangier

Holiday songs: Shavuot, Tu Bishvat, Rosh Hashana, Mimouna and Purim

The mornings of King David

ʾAbraham and Nimrod

Timztot

Tinejdad

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and the circle of life

Syria

Buenos Aires

Eḥad Mi Yodea

Damascus

"Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ"

Eḥad Mi Yodea

Simḥat Tora songs

Translation of Passover Haggada and 'Ma Nishtana'

Qamishli

Ha Laḥma ʿAnya in Arabic and Ma Nishtana in Hebrew

Tunisia

Bizerte

Ḥad Gadya in Arabic

Gabes

'Eḥad Mi Yodea' (Who Knows One) and 'Dayenu' ("it would have sufficed us”)

Passover Seder kiddush and Piyyutim

Israel

"Let Us Praise" - Passover Piyyut from Tunis

La Goulette

Let Us Praise and Drink Wine

Medenine

Ḥanna's lamentation and her seven sons (Qesat Ḥanna)

Nabeul

Ḥad Gadya from Nabeul

Ḥad Gadya in Arabic from Nabeul

Tozeur

Righteous Hannah's Lament

Tunis

"Let Us Praise" - Passover Piyyut from Tunis

Piyyut for brit mila: Hadi Mila u'bada

Zarzis

Honor thy parents

Longing song for Jerusalem

Song for good measures and piety

Song for Passover: "ya ilahna ya ilahna rəbbi fraji ikun mʿana"

Turkey

Argentina

Ḥad Gadya' in Ladino

Edirne

Passover Haggada and recitation of 'Ḥad Gadya' in Judeo-Spanish

Reciting a longing song for Jerusalem

Israel

Passover Haggada and recitation of 'Ḥad Gadya' in Judeo-Spanish

Reciting a longing song for Jerusalem

Istanbul

Ḥad Gadya' in Ladino

Song about biblical Abraham

Izmir

Sacred songs and proverb

Yemen

Al Hajar

Apostasy and a song by my mother and me about converting to Islam

Lament for Ḥaim Giddis Z"L

My grandfather's song about the pogroms in Europe

Song composed by my family

Al Maḥwit

A song of love and supplication to God

Al Qif

Contribution (Terumah) has set us apart from every nation: melody of the Jews of Northern Yemen

Al-Rawda

'Shabbat Menuḥa': in Hebrew and Arabic

As Sakin

Contribution (Terumah) has set us apart from every nation: melody of the Jews of Northern Yemen

Dweḥa

Rabbi Shalom Shabazi song

Ḥabban

Holidays and Purim dance

Israel

Contribution (Terumah) has set us apart from every nation: melody of the Jews of Northern Yemen

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

Kaukaban

Hear My Prayer, O Lord

Najran (Saudi Arabia)

Sanaʽa

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

׳Shabbat rest is for all of us׳

Sawraq

Hebrew alphabet song

Sharʿab

Wedding songs and customs

Shibam

Hear My Prayer, O Lord

ʿAden

Song about the Tora

Song about the Tora

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