Montagu, Jeremy,

The shofar : its history and use / Jeremy Montagu. - 1 online resource (197 pages) : color illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description and preliminary history -- Liturgical use -- The sounding of the shofar -- Who can blow and on what -- The secular uses of the shofar -- Making a shofar -- How to choose and how to blow a shofar -- Shofar typology, old and new -- The shofar and its meaning -- Biblical, talmudic, and post talmudic sources.

9781442250284 (e-book)


Shofar.
Synagogue music--History and criticism.
Jews--Music--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

ML990.S55 / M66 2015

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