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Freylekhs (LKT)
… accompanied by singing... The possibility that such songs (e.g., frejlaxs ) were sung in other Ukrainian … them, the klezmorim , went the in-laws, the guests and the children of the shtetl.” Fenster 1964, pp. 155-56 . “ … bride’s father and mother, sisters with their husbands and children, the aunts, uncles, and cousins and all close …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukah Songs
… Hanukah has generated a substantial repertoire of songs, some of which have attained an almost universal … his second wife, Marjorie Mazia Greenblatt, and their four children, including famous folk-singer Arlo Guthrie, were. … songs, some for the local Jewish community and some for his children. The themes of the songs range from joyous …
Semele (LKT)
… information on this dance. There he cites all the folk songs that mention the semene/semele dance. Cahan introduces … ancient dance. And this is also definitely confirmed in a children’s song which I found in Berman’s collection … Semene dance -- fish in water swim here and there...’ Since children already sing this song, it is probably very old. …
Doyne (LKT)
… pipe) or violin; it is sung by men and women, adults and children. In structure it is divided into two parts. The … is one of the richests and most beautiful of Yiddish folk songs. A certain non-Jewish influence heard in the melody is …
Sher
… references, the šer is also mentioned very rarely in folk songs. These folk songs are all from the Ukraine (cf. Cahan 1912a: 18 from … of incomprehensible word constructions as we find in children’s and counting songs’ (Schünemann 1923:413). This …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, 1928. … Festival). This setting soon became one of the canonical children songs for Purim in Europe and in the Jewish … where it remains alive to this day among Israeli children. As a most widely recognized melody in the Eastern …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… Sefer HaN igunim . Brooklyn: Ḥevrat Ni h oa h Example 4 Children's parody of Ehad mi yodea from Beregovski's … 1938 collection published in Kiev. Example 5 Melody of children's parody of "E h ad mi yodea as it appeared in … similar serial patterns of question and answer counting songs in other traditions, such as Muslim, Latin, German, …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a … early sounds of the passion of our souls were silenced. Our children who come after us will not feel those inner … and it did not take off—despite token prizes offered to children who could learn it.” [16] For the sake of accuracy, …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… her unique, wide-ranging style, is in fact a suite of Purim songs. It opens with ‘Haint Iz Purim, Brider,’ which eventually becomes a refrain used between the other songs of the suite. Amid these repetitions of ‘Haint Iz … modern Israeli repertoire of Purim songs, especially for children. ‘Shoshanat Yaakov’ includes therefore the stanza …
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 … of the twentieth century there are many such commonplace songs. Some of them became popular in one social circle or … the other? Is one a variation on the other? Are they both “children” of some older melody – and did that melody have …