Eshet chayil — David Meghnagi, repertoire of the Libyan Jews in Rome

Eshet chayil — David Meghnagi, repertoire of the Libyan Jews in Rome

EF

31:10–31 (textual source)

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.

Setting of Eshet chayil, the poem from Proverbs 31 traditionally sung at the Shabbat evening table, performed by David Meghnagi.