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Hopke (LKT)
… the klezmers aso played the hopak . (The name hopak was folklorized into hopke .) Jewish kozachok melodies were borrowed, but in the klezmer interpretation … been derived from the Polish dance Hopka or the Ukrainian folk dance Hopak . According to the Modzhitz menaggen …
Zhok (LKT)
… This popular Saturday afternoon dance movement produced new folk songs and dances.” EncyJud 1971, p. 1267 . “The … dancing. Although zhok was sometimes just used as ‘street melodies’ without tunes... Zhok is also quite recent. …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… was one of the United States' great and prolific folk singers. Many of his songs dealt with the plight of the … Mazia Greenblatt, and their four children, including famous folk-singer Arlo Guthrie, were. Guthrie met Marjorie in 1942 … Hanukkah, a twelve-song album that includes newly composed melodies to lyrics that Nora found in 1997, adaptations of …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… of one or another šer but of the very style of the melodies itself. The Ukrainian šers are in general very … This could not have been adopted from the Ukrainian folk music, since there were far fewer professionally trained Ukrainian folk musicians than Jewish ones.” Beregovski 1937 [= …
Kale bazetsen (LKT)
… di makhetonim . There were also non-metrical wedding melodies, such as kaleh beveynen (known as ‘kaleh bazetsen ’ … commonly sung to a variety of tunes, as a zemerl (religious folk song).” Schlesinger, Alpert, Rubin 1989 . ( …
Bazetsens (LKT)
… . ( Recording references included). “First there were the melodies for the ‘seating of the bride’ ritual for the … included). “The bands themselves fashioned fitting melodies for the various situations and moods during the … scene. It is peformed by the State Ensemble of Jewish Folk Music of the Ukrainian S.S.R. recorded in the early to …
Chasidic in America
… did not approve of having a popular singer chant the holy melodies for them. There is even documentation of a … but now the cumulative structure of the Passover folk song turned it into an even more exciting piece. The …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… The album includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews used to sing in … of the JMRC and one of the most prominent scholars of the folksong in Ladino worldwide. These CDs summarize the … and literary content as well as the musical styles of the melodies. You can download MP3s at Amazon , or find it on …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… associated with Saint Petersburg’s Society for Jewish Folk Music . The soprano voice follows a melodic line … the song to an aesthetic of modern composition rather than folk song. A recording of this arrangement has been … in the ninth volume of his Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies and was classified by him as a melody with a …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… Gadye),” The Study of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Yiddish Folklore and Literature 1 (1954), pp. 214-218. Shmeruk’s … short, the song appears to have circulated in its initial folk version in Provence, in a transitional form, … by Jews (such as American English) and acquired different melodies throughout the Jewish diaspora (see: Ladino …