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The Israeli Mediterranean Style
… . The term Mediterranean style, as it has been used in Israel, originally referred to selected versions of European … 1930s throughout the 1940s, then in Israel mostly until the early 1950s, denoting an emerging national identity through … our discussion to Israeli art music composed through the early 1950s, this entry will focus on the original concept. …
Atah Ehad
… The classification of traditional Ashkenazi melodies into clearly defined genres is a difficult, perhaps impossible … tunes were reincarnated as Zionist songs, becoming Israeli folk songs and folk dances in both secular and … the melody, the song was not performed in this form even as early as 1935 (as can be seen in score no. 2). In addition, …
Had Gadya
… gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting with Leopold Zunz. … of the songs ‘E h ad mi yode’a’ and ‘ H ad Gadya’ in Israel and among the nations,” Assufot: Annual of Jewish … prior to its earliest appearance in print, perhaps as early as the fifteenth century. Detail from Yiddish …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… sung at the Passover seder in some of its contemporary Israeli versions. Written in Aramaic, H ad Gadya appears at … gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting with Leopold Zunz. … prior to its earliest appearance in print, perhaps as early as the fifteenth century. Detail from Yiddish …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… of the Month is “In Zaltsikn Yam” (In the Salty Sea), an early-twentieth-century Yiddish workers' song [See also Song … Lithuanian, and Polish Jewish labor Bund). This song clearly reflects the dominating ideology of the Bund, a strong … songs, there are only few recordings of it available. Israel’s National Library has an ethnographic recording of …
Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture
… refers mainly to the hope of the return of the Children of Israel from the Babylonian exile in the past, it is used … Singing Shir hama’alot to the typical melodies of the yearly cycle was a widespread musical custom of … domestic sphere among families of German origin residing in Israel. The following table shows which melodies of festive …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… life cycle in their communities in Turkey, the Balkans and Israel. The recordings and accompanying commentaries are the … at the JMRC and the National Sound Archives of the Israel National Library that span for over four decades. … 1997 Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire . Berlin: Verlag für …
Badekns (LKT)
… Poland, c. 1906].[Note: The full text of this source is a nearly identical description of the same exact wedding excerpted below as Levinsky 1963]. Ben-Yisrael 1960, pp. 28-29 . “‘Veiling of the bride. This …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… constitutes a sister-repertoire to the niggun-Meron of Israel....The fact that it is at Meron that our particular … with a different ending form in the style of the period....Nearly all the melodies reach their peak on the second phrase … [New York, pre-World War I]. Raboy 1920, p. 25 . “In his early years performing [this doyne ] for Brooklyn …
Hora (LKT)
… and the dance movements are distinct both from the lively Israeli dance in duple meter bearing the same name, and from … dance’), or ‘slow hora.’ Not to be confused with the brisk Israeli dance of the same name.” Alpert 1996b, p. 58 . ( … dance originating in the Balkans and taking root in the early 1900s. Its Palestinian Jewish version was originated …