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Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
… … Jerusalem, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem … Yuval Music Series … 9 … …
Joseph Altschul
Cantor-composer, teacher and Thalmudic-scholar. Born in Vilna. Studied Talmud in…
Y el nuestro novio (El novio desprendido + Los buenos augurios + Los campos de la boda)
A double serial song, with two themes: the first two strophes describe, as in the…
Marcus Hast
Born in Praga (near Warsaw). After serving as a cantor in Poland and Germany, he moved…
Al-Mansur Al-Yahudi
Court musician. Al-Mansur Al-Yahudi was court musician for the Umayyad Caliph…
Goldfaden's Legacy: The Origins of Yiddish Theater
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This entry is part of an online exhibit entitled: '…
Ahot qetannah
In the Sephardi rite this piyyut attributed to Abraham Hazan Gerondi (13th century) is…
Yiddish Folk Songs from Galicia
… Institute of Jewish Studies, Folklore Research Center, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem … Folklore Research Center …
Terkish (LKT)
… clarinet recorded in 1923...The title refers to a Hebrew prayer, possibly the source of the basic melody. He …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… morphology, and prosody of Yiddish combine German and Hebrew components, and in Eastern Europe also elements of … should not sing him songs and melodies of the gentiles or Hebrew melodies that are meant for God. However, if there … an affinity to the 'high' culture of canonical texts in Hebrew along with an affinity to oral folk culture - as well …