“Le-El Elim,” a poem written by the famous Hebrew poet Moshe Chaim Luzatto and set to music by Abraham de Casseres sometime about 1725, was sung today by the Dutch Music Ensemble in the Old Protestant Church here. The work, believed first performed in a Portuguese synagogue on Simchath Torah in 1739, was rediscovered by the Jewish composer Hans Kreig, who is now living in Holland.
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