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A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… the stolen objects listed in this second version are nearly identical to those in the first version. On the other … is very similar to the one in Beregovski's collection. The Israeli klezmer band ‘Oy Division’ also recorded this song …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… piyyutim The baqqashot singing tradition Piyyutim for the yearly cycle and life-cycle Summary Bibliography The … Turkey, the Balkan countries, Syria, Lebanon, the Land of Israel, and Egypt. H azzanim (cantors) and payytanim passed … musical system that shaped the Shabbat and holiday prayers. Early evidence for this phenomenon is found in the …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… dream in the book of Genesis); twelve – the tribes of Israel; thirteen – attributes of mercy (according to … in Prague in 1526/7 found at the National Library of Israel . It appeared in print for the first time in the 1590 … structure of questions and answers and its numbers are nearly identical to those in “E h ad mi yodea,” with some of …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… music (!): J. Engel), Juedische Klaenge (Beilage zum israelitischen Familienblatt [Hamburg]), Nr. 43/23 (Mai … very popular Eastern European Ashkenazi melody that, in the early 1920s, was set by the poet Levin Kipnis to the lyrics … featured in many publications of Jewish folk songs in the early 20th century as a wordless Hassidic niggun as well as …
Sher
… around 1830 (in Czechoslovakia) and the quadrille in the early nineteenth century (Parisian), and the lancers was … only the wedding dance, the sher, won acceptance in Erez Israel.” EncyJud 1971, p. 1270 . “The bands themselves … prevalent among Jews of Eastern Europe and now found in Israel and the Diaspora. The sher was a favorite of the …
La Gallarda matadora
… songs. Two musicians who fuse these two genres are the Israeli singer Yasmin Levy and the guitarist Baldi Olier. … dancer, has, for example, cooperated with Mor Karbasi, an Israeli singer who specializes mostly on Sephardic songs. … in some interesting commercial renditions, e.g. a very early one by Haim Effendi , I will focus here on the latter. …
Volekh (LKT)
… is danced (resurrection of the dead).” [Lag B’Omer, Meron, Israel, 1960s-70s]. Hadju 1971, p. 83 . (Musical notation … found its way into almost every religious service of the yearly cycle. Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760) explains that the reason …
Doyne (LKT)
… with Jews from Romania and the southern Ukraine, by the early twentieth century it had achieved currency among … (sometimes ten or fifteen minutes).” [Lag B’Omer, Meron, Israel, 1960-70s.] Fridhaber 1975, pp. 27-28 . “ Doyna is … 1997, pp. 21-22 . ( Recording references included). “In his early years performing [this doyne ] for Brooklyn …
Bulgar (LKT)
… popular in parts of Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also known as bulgarish, it is a … in Bessarabia. Its best known step is similar to the Israeli dance hora.” Alpert 1996b, p. 58 . ( …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… The statistical disparity effectively meant that nearly one in every three Jewish university-level students in … for Jewish musical achievement that circulated in the early twentieth century actually took on a life of their … University in January 2009. I thank Alexander Frenkel, Israel Bartal, Edwin Seroussi, and Jascha Nemtsov for their …