Joseph Shalom Gallego

Jewish poet and hazzan (d. 1624)

Joseph Shalom de Shalom Gallego (Hebrew: יוסף שלום בן שלום גלייגו; died 25 November 1624) was a Hebrew poet and ḥazzan.

## Biography

[edit]

Originally from Salonika,[1] Gallego moved to Amsterdam around 1614,[2] where he served for fourteen years as the first ḥazzan of the city's first synagogue, Beth Jacob.[3] 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),[4][5] many of which were set to melodies of Ladino folk songs.[6] 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 [Sendero] de Vidas (Amsterdam, n.d.; 2d ed., Amsterdam, 1640).

## Publications

[edit]

* Sefer Imre No'am. Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel. 1628.
* Sendroe de Vidas. Amsterdam: Ioseph Bueno & Ioseph da Costa. n.d.

## References

[edit]

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.

1. ^ 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.
2. ^ 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.
3. ^ Heller, Marvin J. (2010). The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book: An Abridged Thesaurus. Brill. p. 475\. ISBN 978-90-04-18956-0.
4. ^ Fürst, Julius (1863). Bibliotheca Judaica: Bibliographisches Handbuch der gesammten jüdischen Literatur (in German). Vol. 1\. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 315.
5. ^ Steinschneider, Moritz (1852–60). "Joseph Schalom b. Schalom Galliago (גאליאגו)". Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana (in Latin). Berlin: A. Friedlaender. pp. 1526–1627.
6. ^ 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.

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* WorldCat

National|

* United States
* Netherlands
* Israel

This biographical article about a Dutch religious figure is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template