Yodukha ra'yonai — David Meghnagi, repertoire of the Libyan Jews in Rome
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Yodukha ra'yonai — 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).
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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.
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Shabbat piyut by Israel Najara, performed by David Meghnagi.
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Text by Israel Najara.
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EF, “Yodukha ra'yonai — David Meghnagi, repertoire of the Libyan Jews in Rome,” Thesaurus of Jewish-Italian Liturgical Music, accessed November 6, 2026, https://jewishitalianmusic.org/thesaurus/items/show/4105.
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