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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… (‘Today is Purim, Brothers’) is one of the most familiar songs in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has … as we pointed out on traditional formulae) shows that the folk tradition in Yiddish lacked family songs for Purim. … As time passed and the zamelbukh spread, the song was folklorized, as attested to by its 1932 appearance in …
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 …
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 …
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 …