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Off the Beaten Track in Israel
… a Bucharian traditional dance known as the Dance of the Bartered Bride. It is a pantomime dance that portrays a … marriage bargain. The music accompanying this scene is the song BeBuchara HaYaffa (In Beautiful Buchara). The melody to this song is based on a traditional Bucharan dance melody while …
Abyadi Ana
… Abyadi Ana, a traditional Moroccan song for the Henna ( Arabic ( حِنَّاء ceremony is our song … by the families of the bride and groom to produce Henna parties that include traditional costumes, authentic “ethnic” … dialect of the Jews of Morocco. This is an example of part of the song performed during a Henna ritual (watch …
Communal singing
… * This entry is a summarized version of the full artice about communal singing, by Talila Eliram. To read the full article, see below. Communal singing (or public singing,) is … or end of a social activity they would sing translated songs, songs that they knew from home songs of pining for …
The Unfortunate Bride
… Directed by Maurice Schwartz This 1926 silent film was re-edited and had dialogue … … Yiddish … Yiddish Films … Yiddish songs … Maurice Schwartz … USA … Cantor … Immigration … The Unfortunate Bride …
Israeli folksongs
… * This entry is a summarized version of the full artice about Israeli folksongs by Talila Eliram. To read the full article, see below. The genre of Israeli folksongs …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… 722 … Although the song Hatikvah became the emblematic lyrical signifier of … exemplify the mechanisms through which Jewish modernity articulated itself on the basis of German aesthetics, in … its ethos, echoing patterns of German cultural activism, particularly at the level of youth movements. Dort wo die …
Uncle Moses
… for Jewish Film (2007) … … 1932 … Yiddish Films … Yiddish songs … Yiddish … Wedding … New York City … Immigrants … Immigration … Maurice Schwartz … America … Klezmer … Uncle Moses …
Andalusian Nuba
… In this article we will review the development of the Nuba, which is … the Sufi Orders in the Maghreb who devoted a considerable part of their spiritual work to music and singing. In a … (a type of frame drum) that is followed by a series of songs (Sana'a) that are performed without pause until the …
Para Para
… Para performed by Ruthie Fried from Kibbutz Ma'anit … Our Song of the Month, Para Para , appeared on the JMRC’s … from the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem and the Department of Musicology of the Hebrew University who located a … In Kaplan's book however, the text is presented as part of an exercise to practice guttural Hebrew letters …
Iyr
… are long, complex compositions usually consisting of three parts. The opening is a free polyphonic introductory section in very slow tempo based on motifs from well-known songs. It is followed by a short second part which alludes to rhythms from the upcoming sections. The …