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Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… modernity, the secular Yiddish songs sung by women and girls became an extremely common backdrop for tasks such as …
6. Coplas de Hanukkah: Dak Il Tas, Toma El Tas
… the musical space inhabited by the Ottoman Sephardim. The girls from the first stanza of the oral version are also not …
Sarah Harat
… education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the traditional …
Ya crecen las hierbas (30b)
A variant of song 30a. A new episode is added described the departure of the unhappu…
Mateša, mateša (4a)
… This is a nonsense song girls sing while sitting on a swing ( mateša ). The word for …
2-7. El parto feliz
… mother of the newborn, and you will see how the handsome girls are eating and greeting each other.” The second …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… and for them to join him asap. Once again the two girls and their mother had to leave their beloved homeland. …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… and we all felt his absence. Meanwhile an orphanage for girls opened opposite our home. [11] We visited the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… instructor at the Beit Yaakov network of schools for girls in Israel in 1936 (Rotenberg [1999] 2003). [6] The …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… of the song, however, also mentions that “seven pretty girls like plums, three no teeth and four no gums” (Rubin, …