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In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… of Jewish political radicalism in late nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, our Song of the Month is “In Zaltsikn Yam” … the Bund as the savior of the Jewish worker. Messiah and Jewry are dead, he claims, the new messiah is the Jewish … Hebrew Oriental melodies: Vol. 9: the folk song of the East European Jews . Newark: Ktav Publishing House. Roskies, …
Musical Folklore of Jewish Eastern-Europe
… … 1 … Tel Aviv … … 1958 … Yoachin Stuchevsky … Eastern European jewry … Jewish musical customs … Joachim Stutschewsky … …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… new conditions in terms of both Russian politics and European antisemitism. Most of all, it is due to the fact … composer Aleksandr Spendiarov: “You by birth are an Eastern person, for you the East, as they say, is in your … Arthur Wolfson, eds., The Historic Contribution of Russian Jewry to Jewish Music (New York: National Jewish Music …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… window into the intersections of American, Palestinian and European Zionism, mid-century Yiddish secular culture, the … the most charismatic (if controversial) leaders of American Jewry in the twentieth century, must have had a deep impact … such a Yiddish song. The modality is reminiscent of Middle-Eastern songs, such as the baladi songs of Syrian and …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval European innovation that probably enhanced the process of … phrase, a common learning technique in religious schools in Eastern Europe. Our website includes two illuminating … whose Jewish community traces its origins to Baghdadi Jewry. Sephardic melodies of this kind are also found in …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… havoc that Nazi Germany unleashed upon Western Ashkenazi Jewry and its synagogue tradition. [33] Cantor Michel … that some of its features situate it within medieval European musical culture. Geo-Cultural Provenance All the … rite ( minhag ’Ashkenaz ); we have not discovered any Eastern Ashkenazi ( minhag Polin and minhag Lita ) …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… by the Lebanese record label Baidaphon, the largest non-European record company active in the Middle East during the … the Nahda period and/or the liturgical practices of Middle Eastern Jews. While everyone from the Jewish side was … from going to Brooklyn/New York, the main center of Syrian Jewry. I had to rely on interlocutors in Jerusalem; there, …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to … a transfer vividly transpires in her encounters with Middle Eastern Jews eternalized in her voluminous recordings. Edith … identified with a largely assimilated component of Berlin Jewry. However, following her arrival in Palestine, her …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… World War II, investigating these practices within a broad European cultural context. The synagogue is conceived not … of religious values, customs and folklore of German Jewry as they existed prior to the Holocaust. As such, … was idiosyncratically developed by Hirsh Weintraub, an Eastern European cantor, and continued by Eduard Birnbaum in …