Arvit shel Kippur - Ermanno Friedenthal, Gorizia

Arvit shel Kippur - Ermanno Friedenthal, Gorizia

Selection of tefillot spanning the whole of Arvit (Maariv) of Yom Kippur

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racc. 52, 1054-1066

racc. 52, 949-961

Rabbi Ermin Friedenthal, called Ermanno in Italy, was born on March 10th, 1881 in Hungary, at the time Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the town of Battaszeh. He begun his Jewish studies at home, then at a local yeshiva, then in Wien; in 1902 he was sent to the Collegio Rabbinico in Firenze, directed by rav Shemuel Tzvi Margulies. In subsequent years, as he studed, he also acted as hazan at the Tempio Maggiore di Firenze. He was chief Rabbi in Cuneo, then In Gorizia. During the First World War, he was required to return to Hungary and was Chief Rabbi in Kecskemet; in 1919 after the war he returned to Gorizia. He was then called to be rabbi in Verona; after the war he became chief Rabbi in Milan, seat which he held until his death on September 26th, 1970. As Leo Levi states in the notes to the recordings, he had learned the Gorizia traditional repertoire from the voice of his predecessor, Rabbi Giacomo Bolaffio. He was maternal grandfather to Rabbi Elia Richetti.

The recording starts with a brief description from the voice of Leo Levi. He says: "[serie di ca]nti della Comunità Ebraica di Gorizia registrati a Milano il giorno 23 marzo 1961 dal professor Ermanno Friedenthal, più che ottantenne e tuttora rabbino capo della Comunità Ebraica di Milano. Il Rabbino Friedenthal era stato rabbino a Gorizia dal 1910 al 1924 ed aveva ricevuto questi canti per tradizione sicura dal defunto rabbino Giacomo Bolaffio di Gorizia" - collection of tunes from the Jewish Community of Gorizia, recorded in Milan on March 23, 1961, by professor Ermanno Friedenthal, more than eighty years old and still Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Milan. Rabbi Friednthal was rabbi in Gorizia from 1910 to 1924, and has received these melodies by attendable tradition from rabbi Giacomo Bolaffio of Gorizia, now deceased.