Rabbi Meir Matsliaḥ Melamed (1920-1989), born in Izmir, Turkey, was a rabbi, author, and compiler of siddurim and maḥzorim in Spanish and Portuguese. We know little about his life and career save that he served the Congregation Bené Herzl and Temple Bet-El in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, before arriving in the United States where he began his tenure in the early 1970s with the Cuban Sephardic Hebrew Congregation in Miami, Florida. If you know more, or can provide a reference to an article or book providing additional information, please contact us.
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מַחֲזוֹר לְראֹשׁ השנה Majzor leRosh Hashanah (1976) is the first edition of a bilingual Hebrew-Spanish nusaḥ Sefaradi Rosh haShanah prayerbook compiled and translated by Rabbi Meir Matsliaḥ Melamed (1920-1989). Rabbi Melamed had in 1971 been installed at the pulpit of the Cuban Sephardic Hebrew Congregation, after having served previously in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where his 1966 Hebrew-Portuguese siddur Tefilat Masliaḥ was first published. For both prayerbooks, as no Hebrew type with vocalization and cantillation marks was available to Rabbi Melamed, liturgy was reproduced from images of older siddurim. Rabbi Melamed’s translation appears to the sides of these images and his commentary underneath. . . .