meshorer
meshorer noun: a choirboy or subservient singer to a cantor.
Noun
meshorer (plural meshorerim)
- A choirboy or subservient singer to a cantor.
- One of the outstanding Synagogue singers toward the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century was Israel Lovy- born in Schottland near Danzig (1773). His parents came from Poland. While he was still in his childhood, his parents settled in Glogow, where he became meshorer to...1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 226
- Only in 1838 were the first moves made towards transformation of the meshorerim into a modern four-part choir.1989, Geoffrey Goldberg, “Neglected Sources for the Historical Study Of Synagogue Music: The Prefaces To Louis Lewandowski's Kol Rinnah U'T'filla and Todah W'Simrah—Annotated Translations”, in Musica...
Forms of meshorer
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Questions about meshorer
- What does meshorer mean?
- Meshorer means a choirboy or subservient singer to a cantor.
- What part of speech is meshorer?
- Meshorer is a noun.
- What is the plural of meshorer?
- The plural of meshorer is meshorerim.
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