Ovadia Ha’ger, an early-12th-century Italian convert to Judaism, wrote the oldest surviving Jewish sheet music. They were found in the genizah room of a Cairo synagogue and now professionally recorded. Video
Ovadia Ha’ger, an early-12th-century Italian convert to Judaism, wrote the oldest surviving Jewish sheet music. They were found in the genizah room of a Cairo synagogue and now professionally recorded. Video
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Ovadiah the Convert wrote the oldest surviving Jewish sheet music. These pages were preserved in the genizah storage room of Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue, which Ovadiah would have frequented.
Recently renovated, the Ben Ezra synagogue still stands in its original location. This is the song.
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