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Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… the only surviving footage of spontaneous pre-Holocaust folk choreography. In the present brief contribution, I will …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… the same melody. The melody itself presents a mixture of a folk tune and a psalmodic chant. It is simple, easily … of Ashkenazic Hazanim .” In Studies in Biblical and Jewish Folklore . Ed. Raphael Patai et al . Indiana University Folklore Series, vol. 13. Bloomington: Indiana University …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… of David Edelstadt from the earliest edition of his songs, Folks Gedikhte , New York, Hebrew Publications Company, … its catchy melody led to its reception and popularity as a “folk” song, at times deprived of any mention of authorship. … of the text’s author but the tune is identified as “folk melody.” Indeed, the tune recalls those of Russian …
Moshe Attias
… does not mean what he says.” Oz further defined him as “a folk clown, he sings as he speaks, without censorship.” …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan and Morocco ,” Track 09, Folkways Records, 1983. This relatively early recording …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… how the dabke , one of the region’s most popular folk dances, belonged to the Palestinian national struggle: …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… the “Western” melody, i.e. Sulzer’s, is similar to German folk melodies, some documented as early as the fifteenth … is found in many Ashkenazi liturgical melodies and Yiddish folksongs. All in all, this oral version vindicates Wodak’s … generis multi-volume publication, designed and published by folklorist and educator Yom Tov Levinsky (1899-1973). The …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… in different post-war sub-disciplines of musicology such as folk music research, Cantus-Planus-research, or the study of … four articles in the JMRC journal Yuval : Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition, … Had Gadya Kedusha Four Melodies for Four Questions Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong) The …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… fast days in the Jewish liturgical calendar, spiced with folk tales related to these events. When the section in the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten source … Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector and scholar of folk songs. In addition to the Latvian folk songs Melngailis …