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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 … … 23259 … Yiddish … Yiddish Films … Jewish music … Yiddish songs … Film music … Film … Unintentional History: Musical …
Bernardo Feuer
… synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original language or … , they proposed to the “Vaad Hajinuj” to establish a Jewish folk choir with the aim of spreading Jewish culture through …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… to the medieval romances noticieros (informative, narrative songs), due to its recounting of historical events. 7 … metric structure and modality. 20th Century Ladino Songs and the Memory of Saloniki In the aftermath of the … Another song regarding the Great Fire: http://www.jewishfolksongs.com/he/el-dio-la-mate-esta-grega Footnotes: 1. …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… 14 from the 1998 JMRC recording Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all … ha-mayim,” has the indication “ne’imah ‘amamit,” i.e. “folk melody.” While only Idelsohn has documented the … that Magilnitzky refers to as “the known melody”), the “folk” one became widespread, indeed as a Hebrew folksong, in …
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 …
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 … of liturgical and religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs for youth, and introspective songs meant for spiritual …
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 published in … of this melody appears in A.W. Binder’s “New Palestinean Folk Songs,” it is important to explore first the history of …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Purim brider' from the Ruth Rubin's archival collection, "Folksongs and Folklore 1948-1967 – Holidays' Songs – Purim." Recorded in …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… of this female Jewish repertoire is manifested in the songs' themes, such as the internal spiritual world of the … 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 …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… energy rather than legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali … scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a … [11] Although Carul cu Boi is usually described as “folk song,” at least its text is relatively “modern” for it …