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«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… roughly 1200 students, were Jewish. This was at a time when Jews formed roughly four percent of the total Russian … rest of the Russian educational world strenuously denied Jews entry, Russia’s greatest musical academy welcomed them … Palestine and the path of Jewish nationalism, others chose Germany and the United States and the varied paths of …
Forshpil (LKT)
… began on the Sabbath preceding the wedding... Among the German Jews this celebration was called Spinholz, a medieval German term, the meaning of which cannot be ascertained. The …
Popular Poetry of the Russian Jews
… … 1 … New York … Americana Germanica … … 2:2 … 1989 … Jewish poetry … Russian jewry … Ashkenaz … Leo Wiener … Popular Poetry of the Russian Jews …
Sher
… and Kherson regions). Was the šer known only to Ukrainian Jews? Certainly not. Although we have no data from the … (Schünemann 1923:413). This is all we could find in the German dance repertoire that has anything in common with … century. They have features in common with the older German ‘Scherer’ and not with the ‘Scherlieder.’ The Jewish …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… h a vesim h a.” In this last setting it appeared in the German-Jewish journal Ost und West in 1910 ( example 1 ) and … suggest that both stem from the collection of Leo Winz, the German publisher of Kisselgof's collection as well as the … sung in informal settings, the word 'La-yehudim' (for the Jews) is changed to 'La-yeladim' (for the children). Yet, in …
Toyten-tants (LKT)
… by a Jew... Soon, Dances of Death sprang up in Roman and German forms. The Christians performed them during church processions; the Jews at weddings and family festivals, sometimes even as … Dance of Death.’ The dance she refers to was probably a German version of the death dance.” Lapson 1943, pp. 461-62 …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… and there he floats. This specific wording appeared also in German versions of the song (for a detailed discussion of the German variants see Bohlman and Holtzafpel 2001, no. 10, pp. … it is originally a Jewish or a non-Jewish song adapted by Jews; 2) If it is of Jewish origin, did it originated in …
Karev Yom
… for Israeli “products” in North American concentrations of Jews and Bikel was the right person, at the right time and … guttural letters. It appears that he wanted to bypass his German accent and sound as “sabra” as possible. A … melody, recorded in the National Sound Archives by various German and Swiss informants, reflects a non-Hassidic …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Different scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a possible source of inspiration: …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Schönberg 1927 provides a condensed and rich analysis of German-Jewish (Western Ashkenazi) cantillation based on … locus ” for discourses that embody “musical corpora of the Jews with what can be called the ‘aura of antiquity’” (47). … was brought about by a common desire, among East-Ashkenazi Jews, to allow for multiple expressive potentialities in the …