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March 2026

Girsa deYankuta: A Pedagogical Approach to Hazzanut

Isaac Montagu
Freelance educator and hazzan; editor of Sidduré Or
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To embrace Girsa deYankuta is to prioritize multivocal listening and group chanting to restore depth and lived continuity to prayer traditions.
Isaac Montagu is a musician, dancer and Jewish educator. With roots in London’s Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi community, Isaac is currently researching Sephardic liturgical music via a PhD at SOAS, as a scholar of the Jewish Music Institute. Isaac is also editor of a new series of Sephardic siddurim (prayer books), focused on gender- and queer-inclusive religious practice. Outside of the Jewish world, Isaac plays cello for English and European trad music, and teaches and facilitates traditional folk dancing.
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