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Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… we dedicate the Song of the Month to a very popular Eastern European Ashkenazi melody that, in the early 1920s, was set by the … Israeli children. As a most widely recognized melody in the Eastern European Jewish world, the melody of “ H ag Purim” …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… a manuscript addition (Hebrew and Yiddish) to a copy of the Ashkenazi haggadah printed in Prague in 1526/7 found at the … is of Jewish origin, did it originated in Ashkenaz or in an Eastern Jewish tradition. Much of the relevant literature … (Tabory, 1988: 66) Variations from Sephardic and Eastern Jewish communities “E h ad mi yodea” began to appear …
On a Particular Case of Tonal, Modal, and Motivic Components in Sources for Liturgical Music of East and West European Origins
… … World Union of Jewish Studies, Magnes … … 3 … 2009 … Eastern Ashkenaz … Western Ashkenaz … Ashkenazi liturgical music … Ashkenazi … Boaz …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… and commercial recordings throughout the European, Middle Eastern and American Jewish diasporas, was a crucial … leaning of the early Zionist intellectuals Central and Eastern Europe. On the other hand, the “Biblical” thesis … another Jewish melody, the Leoni Yigdal , see below under Ashkenazi hypothesis) with the Italian predecessors (see …
Or Haganuz
… their music, Hajdu offers a fresh and sensitive reading of Ashkenazi hazzanut pieces by applying to them contemporary … JMRC. It is the best gift we could offer to enthusiasts of Ashkenazi hazzanut and to all those who have an interest in … of Jerusalem … Contemporary Jewish Music … Gems of Ashkenazi Hazzanut and Yiddish Songs Revived … Hazzan, …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… of the JMRC specializing on Yiddish song and culture in Eastern Europe prepared a detailed scholarly essay on Leibu … Yiddish music … USSR … Yiddish … Yiddish songs … Israel … Ashkenazi … Michael Lukin … Edwin Seroussi … Vemen vestu …
On musical connections between Jews and the neighboring peoples of Eastern and Western Europe
… Gol'din … Jewish folk music in Europe … Klezmer music … Ashkenazi … Max Goldin … Robert A. Rothstein … On musical … connections between Jews and the neighboring peoples of Eastern and Western Europe …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… of the famous ‘Shoshanat Yaakov,’ which is sung in Ashkenazi synagogues after the evening reading of the … of Kozhnitz (Yiddish name of the town of Kozienice, in Eastern Central Poland). From there the niggun spread to …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… transliterated in Latin letters in an inconsistent mix of Ashkenazic and Sephardic pronunciations. None of the songs … such a Yiddish song. The modality is reminiscent of Middle-Eastern songs, such as the baladi songs of Syrian and … incorporate elements of Yemenite songs in combination with Eastern European motives – making this a paramount example …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a tradition that developed in … Russia, Ukraine and Poland and is now widely practiced in Ashkenazi congregations around the world. There are six sets of melodies or “modes” in the Eastern Ashkenazi tradition of Biblical cantillation; I will …