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Oh, Lovely Parrot! - Jewish Women's Songs from Kerala

Enni enni tirttu dinam (The fifth of Iyyar)

… A Malayalam Zionist song celebrating the declaration of Israeli independence on the fifth day of the Hebrew month of …

Or Haganuz: Gems of Ashkenazi Hazzanut and Yiddish Songs Revived

Raza Deshabbat

… … Ashkenazi liturgy … Chazzanut … Contemporary Israeli Music … Contemporary Liturgy … Piano accompaniment … …

… a stiff drink. The text was written by A. Almi (pen name of Eliyahu-Chaim Sheps, 1892-1968), a member of the Warsaw … … Ashkenazi liturgy … Chazzanut … Contemporary Israeli Music … Contemporary Liturgy … Piano accompaniment … …

El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)

… of this song. Stutschewsky, too, evaded the Hora dance feeling in favor of a rather slow Andante marked as quarter …

Nahôn libbo is hujire – Whole-heartedly is the fearful believer

… holiday of Passover (see Shiloah 1983). Its traditional religious imagery could be read through the lenses of the … of the Jews through the piyyut ’s meta-subjects: the believer’s merits, individual and communal redemption and the … middle sub-section, which seems to address the subject of belief through various religious and philosophical themed …

“Die alte Kasche” (Volkslied) – The Old Question (Folksong)

Die alte Kasche stands out in the Yiddish folksong corpus for its simplest and yet…

Lied ohne Worte (chassidisch)

… (is that a coincidence that a converted, assimilated Jew – Felix Mendelssohn wrote “Songs without Words” for piano?). …

Chassidisches Lied – Hasidic Song

… states of joy and ecstasy through dance and song: The deep belief of the Chassidim, their dwejkuth [devotion] in G-od, … Chassid the song and dance are inseparable elements of his belief, and his inner dedication to G-od. The elevated soul … this repetition reflects the perseverance of the Jewish belief: The Chassidic nigun is splits up to smaller segments …