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A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… (nine stanzas) appeared in Yehuda Leib Cohen's Yiddishe Folkslieder mit Melodien (1957), where the text appears … robbery and shouting to passersby to help him. Actor and folk singer Theodore Bikel during a live performance … Nahman Bialik, an acquaintance, she began singing Yiddish folk songs, becoming one of the first female performers to …
Karev Yom
… earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War … as an American theatre and movie actor, entertainer, and folk song revivalist. Music reviewers stresses his Yiddish … was released as a 10-inch vinyl in 1955 under the title Folk Songs of Israel by Elektra (EKL 32) and rereleased in …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… energy rather than legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali … [11] Although Carul cu Boi is usually described as “folk song,” at least its text is relatively “modern” for it … sources in the web, does not reflect the widespread folk practice of contrafactum that lies behind the turning …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… in the event dictates the length of the performance. Folklore scholar Vered Madar mentions in her doctoral thesis that many scholars of folklore deal with the question of how carriers of folk culture remember texts that are transmitted orally. …

On musical connections between Jews and the neighboring peoples of Eastern and Western Europe
… at Amherst … no. 18 … … 1989 … Maks Gol'din … Jewish folk music in Europe … Klezmer music … Ashkenazi … Max …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Purim brider' from the Ruth Rubin's archival collection, "Folksongs and Folklore 1948-1967 – Holidays' Songs – Purim." Recorded in … as we pointed out on traditional formulae) shows that the folk tradition in Yiddish lacked family songs for Purim. …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks … of this melody appears in A.W. Binder’s “New Palestinean Folk Songs,” it is important to explore first the history of … publishing houses of the time, issued “New Palestinean Folk Songs,” which included 22 songs arranged for voice and …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… career began in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… with the evaluation of “the gray area between the art, folk, and popular in the Israeli song.” His research …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval … founding member of the Saint Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music. His work was performed only once in Haifa in … educators. In this publication, the melody appears as a “folk tune.” When he republished it in 1974 in the third …