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Sim Shalom (Max Janowski)

from Heritage by Cantor Azi Schwartz of Park Avenue Synagogue

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Max Janowski (1912-1991) was born in Berlin and is
considered one of the most prolific and
influential composers of synagogue music in the
20th century. Following his training as a pianist
and organist and a brief period teaching music
in Tokyo in the early 1930s, he immigrated to the
U.S. in 1937.
Janowski settled in Chicago in 1938, where
he was appointed musical director of the KAM
(Kehilat Anshey Ma’arav) Congregation, one of the
flagships of the Reform movement in America.
He composed more than 500 works, including
choir and orchestra pieces, cantatas, and
oratorios. His signature style is marked
by simplicity, an appealing melody and
straightforward solo lines. He was highly
influenced by the modalities and harmonies
embedded in Israeli folk and popular music, and
composed songs to the words of Israeli poets.
Avinu Malkeinu (sung by Barbara Streisand)
and Sim Shalom, are among his first and most
well-known compositions, which are now widely
accepted and performed around the world.
Sim Shalom has been a beloved and oftenperformed
classic for years. Janowski’s setting
of Sim Shalom is based on the same four-note
ascending-descending motive that appears in
Avinu Malkeinu. This four-note figuration also
echoes the famous Israeli song Ali Be’er (Rise
up, Well, words by Ch. N. Bialik, music by Sarah
Levy Tanai). Sim Shalom’s melody winds around
ancient musical mode prevalent in traditional
and folk music. The unison refrain allows the
congregation to take an active role in singing.
The song was dedicated to the diplomat Ralph
Johnson Bunche, who received the 1950 Nobel
Peace Prize for mediating in the 1947 Arab-
Israeli conflict.

lyrics

Grant peace to the world, goodness and blessing,
Grace, love, and compassion
for us and for all the people Israel.
Bless us, our creator, united as one, with Your presence;
by that light, Adonai our God, You have given us
a guide to life, the love of kindness,
generosity, blessing, compassion, life and peace.
May it please You to bless Your people Israel
at every season and at all times with Your gift of peace.
Blessed are You, Adonai, who blessed Your people Israel with Peace.

[The Amidah prayer]


שִׂים שָׁלוֹם טוֹבָה וּבְרָכָה,
חֵן וָחֶסֶד וְרַחֲמִים עָלֵינוּ וְעַל כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל עַמֶּךָ.
בָּרְכֵנוּ אָבִינוּ כֻּלָּנוּ כְּאֶחָד בְּאוֹר פָּנֶיךָ,
כִּי בְאוֹר פָּנֶיךָ נָתַתָּ לָּנוּ ה' אֱלֹהֵינוּ
תּוֹרָת חַיִּים וְאַהֲבַת חֶסֶד,
וּצְדָקָה וּבְרָכָה וְרַחֲמִים וְחַיִּים וְשָׁלוֹם.
וְטוֹב בְּעֵינֶיֶךָ לְבָרֵךְ אֶת כּל עָמְּךָ יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּכֹל עֵת וּבְכֹל שָעָה בִּשׁלוֹמֶךָ.
בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה' הַמְבָרֵךְ אֶת עַמּוֹ יִשְׂרָאֵל בַּשָּׁלוֹם.

Sim shalom tovah u-v’rahah
Hen va-hesed ve-rahamim
aleinu ve-al kol Yisrael amekha
Barkheinu Avinu kulanu ke-ehad be-or panekha
Ki ve-or panekhah natata lanu, Adonai Eloheinu,
torat hayim ve-ahavat hesed,
u-tzedakah u-v’raha ve-rahamim ve-hayim ve-shalom
Ve-tov be-einekha le-varekh et amkha Yisrael
be-khol et u-ve-khol sha’ah bi-shlomekha
Baruch atta Adonai,
ha-mevarekh et amo Yisrael ba-shalom.

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from Heritage, released September 18, 2018

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Cantor Azi Schwartz of Park Avenue Synagogue New York, New York

Cantor Azi Schwartz is the Senior Cantor of Park Avenue Synagogue in New York, and is a world-renowned vocal performer and recording artist whose music reaches Jewish and interfaith audiences internationally.

Azi has performed at Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden; on PBS and on Richard Gere’s movie 'Norman'; and for Pope Francis.

He has released nine albums of Jewish liturgical music. ... more

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