Ashkenazi slichot, Jewish penitential prayers recited before the High Holidays, are at risk of disappearing due to lack of attention compared to Sephardic traditions. Scholar Mishael Vaknin warns that many Ashkenazi poems were written during the Crusades in the 11th century.

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