Lekhah Dodi - Fernando Belgrado, Firenze (2)

Lekhah Dodi - Fernando Belgrado, Firenze (2)

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Y 00138(08)

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raccolta 52, 166

raccolta 52, 186

Born in Firenze, 31/05/1913. Studies at the Collegio Rabbinico di Firenze and Collegio Rabbinico di Roma. Chazan in Firenze since the early 1930s, then assistant rabbi to rabbi Nathan Cassuto. Acting Chief Rabbi in Firenze since after the war, is formally Chief Rabbi from 1963 to 1978. Dies in Firenze, 11/04/1998.

see:
A. Zimmerman, Belgrado, David Fernando , Encyclopaedia Judaica 2, voi. 3, col. 289 (born 1918)

https://www.rabbini.it/fernando-david-shlomo-belgrado/

Piattelli, Angelo Mordekhai. “REPERTORIO BIOGRAFICO DEI RABBINI D'ITALIA DAL 1861 AL 2011.” La Rassegna Mensile Di Israel, vol. 76, no. 1/2, 2010, pp. 185–256. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41619019. Accessed 4 April 2021.

Manuscript belonging to rav Belgrado, present in the "minhag Firenze" website as "Due volumi di spartiti (archivio Renzo Ventura) vol.1", 16 Lecha Dodi

http://www.minhagfirenze.it/resources/mNaviga.aspx?pag=TESTI

In the Santa Cecilia archives this melody is accompanied by the note: "a Livorno si usa tale melodia per la festa di Purim" (based on present minhag, also for Lekhah Dodi on Shabbat Zakhor, the Shabbat before Purim).

This melody is recognized (as of 2020) as the melody for Special Shabbatot.