Joseph Shalom Gallego

Originally from Salonika,{{r|EJ}} Gallego moved to Amsterdam around 1614,{{r|seroussi_96}} where he served for fourteen years as the first ḥazzan of the city's first synagogue, Beth Jacob.{{r|heller}} 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),{{r|bibljud}}{{r|catbodl}} many of which were set to melodies of Ladino folk songs.{{r|seroussi_01}} 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).

• {{cite book|title=Sefer Imre No'am|location=Amsterdam|publisher=Menasseh ben Israel|date=1628|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sIhjAAAAcAAJ}}
• {{cite book|title=Sendroe de Vidas|location=Amsterdam|publisher=Ioseph Bueno & Ioseph da Costa|date=n.d.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=apMjw6g69YEC}}

{{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Gallego, Joseph Shalom de Shalom (Galigo; sometimes erroneously Galliago, Galiago, or Galliano)|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6481-gallego-joseph-shalom-de-shalom|first1=Richard|last1=Gottheil|first2=Meyer|last2=Kayserling|volume=5|page=555}}

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{{cite EJ|title=Gallego, Joseph Shalom|first=Jefim (Hayyim)|last=Schirmann|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/gallego-joseph-shalom}}

{{cite book|last=Seroussi|first=Edwin|date=1996|title= Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music in Nineteenth-Century Reform Sources from Hamburg: Ancient Tradition in the Dawn of Modernity|location=Jerusalem|publisher=Magnes Press-Hebrew University}}

{{cite book|last=Heller|first=Marvin J.|title=The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book: An Abridged Thesaurus|publisher=Brill|year=2010|isbn=978-90-04-18956-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oN95DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA475|page=475}}

{{cite journal|title=New Perspectives on the Music of the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogues in North-Western Europe|first=Edwin|last=Seroussi|journal=Studia Rosenthaliana|date=2001|volume=35|number=2|pages=297–309|jstor=41482460}}

{{cite book|first=Julius|last=Fürst|author-link=Julius Fürst|title=Bibliotheca Judaica: Bibliographisches Handbuch der gesammten jüdischen Literatur|location=Leipzig|publisher=Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann|date=1863|language=de|volume=1|page=315|url=https://archive.org/details/bibliothecajuda02frgoog/page/n329/mode/2up}}

{{cite encyclopedia|title=Joseph Schalom b. Schalom Galliago (גאליאגו)|first=Moritz|last=Steinschneider|author-link=Moritz Steinschneider|encyclopedia=Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana|location=Berlin|date=1852–60|publisher=A. Friedlaender|language=la|pages=1526–1627|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_hc2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1525}}

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