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Karev Yom
… responded simply with the epitaph found at the top of this article. Multifaceted and multidisciplinary artist Theodore Bikel passed away in Los Angeles last July … commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War II. …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… and reproducers of these stories than they do about the song’s actual historical past. Untangling these stories … of Education of Israel in 2009. This production became part of a wide public campaign by its author, presented as … (discussed below), the Israeli anthem. As long as in the heart, within, A Jewish soul still yearns, And onward, towards …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… … Israel … Background Qad Zawajunī is a form of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish … is sung at the end of the bridal h enna ceremony as part of the repertoire of Yemenite Jewish women singers. In … ceremony takes place before the wedding ceremony. It is part of the extensive series of Yemenite Jewish wedding …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… “The songs of Leibu await definitive professional evaluation,” … Lifshitz in a memorial note dedicated to her late stage partner, the Yiddish performer, narrator, composer and singer … prepared around the centennial of Levin’s birth is a partial fulfilment of Lifshitz’s wish. This CD is based on …
Vivat
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT … you get the full reference. “Monsieur Lieberman started to weep as he said this, drank more wine as he wept, … 1820s-30s]. Fridkin 1925, p. 45-47. “...some ‘Dorian’ songs do bear the imprint of Moldavian influence. We are …
Yonatan Malin
… Lieder, Klezmer, and Jewish liturgical music. His book Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied was … in 2010 by Oxford University Press. He has published articles in Music Analysis and Music Theory Spectrum, and a …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… (‘Today is Purim, Brothers’) is one of the most familiar songs in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has … Jewish songsters which reproduced Rivesman’s version, starting from Goldfarb, as mentioned at the beginning of this article. Goldfarb’s version is clearly taken from the …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… In the last Song of the Month we introduced the song for Purim ‘Haint Iz … town of Dęblin in Poland). The second song of the suite (starting at 5:35) is no other than ‘Hag Purim, Hag Purim,’ a … as Belz (in the L’viv region of Western Ukraine, formerly part of Galicia). Similar to what happened with many other …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in … and arranged a song called (in his spelling) “Na-aleh L’artsenu – On to Our Land.” Binder indicates that this is a … to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only dimly remembered by those who grew up in …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… read on Purim; and (6) one for the festive megillot —Song of Songs, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes—read on Passover, … observes, “Melody is not an additional element, but part and parcel of the text, inseparable from it and … for text phrasing. Jacobson (2002, 412) provides a chart that indicates the frequency of the te’amim throughout …