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Karev Yom
… earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War II. … as an American theatre and movie actor, entertainer, and folk song revivalist. Music reviewers stresses his Yiddish …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… melody. 'A Gneyve' is part of a large repertoire of Yiddish songs addressing the hardships of a poverty ridden life that … (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 …
Vals (LKT)
… that among our large masses, for a long time now the folkdance has had been accompanied by singing and song; and … dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise , quadrille , waltz , … 1994, p. 10 . “A ‘kozak’ [and a freylekhs ]... were folk-dances for adults and in-laws. The youth strutted its …
Jüdische Volksmusik: Eine mitteleuropäische Geistesgeschichte
… A selection of writings by scholars and folklorists, mostly of introductions to Jewish folk song collections, arranged by topics and … development of the modern conceptualization of Jewish folksongs in Central European learned circles of musicians and …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… Month is dedicated to “E h ad mi yodea” the famous serial folksong added to the Passover haggadah . This article, … similar serial patterns of question and answer counting songs in other traditions, such as Muslim, Latin, German, … text printed in the haggadah has remained constant, a few folk, parody, H assidic, and satirical versions in Yiddish …
Tish-nign (LKT)
… make money: a vulekhl or a doina , some zmires (religious folk songs), kind of lik Black spirituals, and Yiddish folk songs or theater songs.” Alpert 1996a, p. 16. “These …
Skotshne/Skochne
… accompanied by singing... The possibility that such songs (e.g., frejlaxs ) were sung in other Ukrainian … 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 [= …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, 1928. … It was also featured in many publications of Jewish folk songs in the early 20th century as a wordless Hassidic … und West in 1910 ( example 1 ) and in Kisselgof's Jewish folk song collection of 1912 ( example 2 ). The similarity …
Sher
… 1982, p. 526, n. 18] . “Gathering data on Jewish folk dances, and especially on the widespread frejlaxs and … references, the šer is also mentioned very rarely in folk songs. These folk songs are all from the Ukraine (cf. …
Raynlender (LKT)
… that among our large masses, for a long time now the folkdance has had been accompanied by singing and song; and … dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise, quadrille, waltz, …