Joseph Shalom de Shalom Gallego (Hebrew: יוסף שלום בן שלום גלייגו; died 25 November 1624) was a Hebrew poet and ḥazzan.
Biography
Originally from Salonika, Gallego moved to Amsterdam around 1614, where he served for fourteen years as the first ḥazzan of the city's first synagogue, Beth Jacob. According to some sources, he later moved to the Land of Israel.
He edited the collection Imre No'am, containing religious poems, hymns, and elegies (Amsterdam, 1628), many of which were set to melodies of Ladino folk songs. Several of his Hebrew poems are also to be found in the manuscript collection Kol tefillah ve-kol zimrah of David Franco Mendes. Gallego translated from Hebrew into Spanish the ethical writings of Jonah de Gerona, under the title Sendroe de Vidas (Amsterdam, n.d.; 2d ed., Amsterdam, 1640).
Publications
- Sefer Imre No'am. Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel. 1628.
- Sendroe de Vidas. Amsterdam: Ioseph Bueno & Ioseph da Costa. n.d.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gottheil, Richard; Kayserling, Meyer (1903). "Gallego, Joseph Shalom de Shalom (Galigo; sometimes erroneously Galliago, Galiago, or Galliano)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 555.
- Schirmann, Jefim (Hayyim) (2007). "Gallego, Joseph Shalom". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
- Seroussi, Edwin (1996). Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music in Nineteenth-Century Reform Sources from Hamburg: Ancient Tradition in the Dawn of Modernity. Jerusalem: Magnes Press-Hebrew University.
- Heller, Marvin J. (2010). The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book: An Abridged Thesaurus. Brill. p. 475. ISBN 978-90-04-18956-0.
- Fürst, Julius (1863). Bibliotheca Judaica: Bibliographisches Handbuch der gesammten jüdischen Literatur (in German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 315.
- Steinschneider, Moritz (1852–60). "Joseph Schalom b. Schalom Galliago (גאליאגו)". Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana (in Latin). Berlin: A. Friedlaender. pp. 1526–1627.
- Seroussi, Edwin (2001). "New Perspectives on the Music of the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogues in North-Western Europe". Studia Rosenthaliana. 35 (2): 297–309. JSTOR 41482460.
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