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An Invitation to Piyut. Online archive managed and edited by Yair Harel, directed by Ran Ziera, and founded by the Avi Chai Foundation and "Kelihot Sharot" (Singing Communities). 2014. In Hebrew and English. URL: http://www.piyut.org.il/
An Invitation to Piyut is an unusual archive offering viewers the opportunity to immerse themselves in over 1,000 different piyutim, liturgical Jewish poems that are often sung or chanted. Each piyutim is presented with several different regional melodies. The goal of the online archive, founded by The Avi Chai Foundation and "Kehilot Shabbat" singing communities, is to provide a broad view of this traditional Jewish poetic and musical practice from all over the world and from the past to the present. According to the website, piyut "purifies and refines key components of Hebrew culture into a totality: language, music, mysticism, history, legend, philosophy, and prayer, as well as personal, family, and national stories and emotions."...