Adonai malakh (Psalm 93, rechitzah) — David Meghnagi, repertoire of the Libyan Jews in Rome

Adonai malakh (Psalm 93, rechitzah) — David Meghnagi, repertoire of the Libyan Jews in Rome

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Born in Tripoli, Libya, in 1949, into a family closely involved in music and liturgical chant. Brother of the musician and scholar Miriam Meghnagi. His family escaped the anti-Jewish persecutions of 1967 and settled in Rome. A psychologist and scholar, he has cultivated the traditional Libyan synagogue repertoire and recorded his own singing on the CD Shiru Shir (2006).

Recording at Or Yehuda synagogue in Rome, as part of the "new minhagim" campaign by OTIJM project for Centro Leo Levi. Director of campaign: David Meghnagi, audio by E. Fink.

David Meghnagi attests that psalms were chanted during the rechitzah, beginning with Psalm 90 and continuing in sequence through the Book of Psalms for as long as the washing took. This performance documents Psalm 93 in that context. Compare the recording of Psalm 90 for mourning in the same campaign (Thesaurus item 3764).