Lekhah Dodi - Leone Leoni, Ferrara (2)

Lekhah Dodi - Leone Leoni, Ferrara (2)

Y 00141(08)

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raccolta 52, 214

raccolta 52, 212

Born in Verona, 25/04/1897; studies at Collegio Rabbinico di Firenze under rabbi S,H, Margulies and rabbi D. Disegni; is in Ferrara at least since 1920, becoming Secretary to the Jewish community; is Chief Rabbi of Ferrara from 1927. Survives the Shoah in hiding, and returns to his post after the war remaining Chief Rabbi in Ferrara until 1952, when he becomes Chief Rabbi in Venezia. Dies 03/10/1964.

See: Secchieri, Laura Graziani. “LEONE LEONI, UN RABBINO GALANTUOMO.” La Rassegna Mensile Di Israel, vol. 82, no. 1, 2016, pp. 49–74. www.jstor.org/stable/26659595.

Magrini, Silvio. "Storia degli ebrei di Ferrara"; Andrea Pesaro, ed.; Belforte, Livorno 2019

https://www.rabbini.it/?s=leone+leoni

2004

Firenze

It is notable that the informant records in this item the last strophe of the piyut after the refrain. As the melody is clearly reminiscent of the melody used in the item recorded immediately before (item "Lekhah Dodi - rav Leoni, Ferrara (1)" in the Thesaurus; see also the transcriptions by G. Bassani and Benedetto Marcello), with the second half of the melody being identical, the choice of strophes might indicate a use of this version as a variation for the last strophes of the piyut, something that is found in many other settings for Lekhah Dodi. It is also to be considered, though, that other sources use this particular melody for the whole of the piyut (see Procaccia, Schoenheit).