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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a … Eliyahu Hacohen, the ultimate connoisseur of the Israeli Hebrew song, who wrote one of the most authoritative studies on Hatikvah ever, notes that a Hebrew translation by Mendel Stern of Die Wacht am Rhein was …
Karev Yom
… him if the interview should be carried out in English or Hebrew. With a distinctive “sabra” accent and in his … baritone voice, Bikel reprimanded Gazit in highbrow modern Hebrew by saying that “the Hebrew language is still holding … commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War II. …
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 … published both in the ninth volume of his Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies (1932), which is dedicated to … University Press. Idelsohn, Abraham Zvi. 1932. Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies: Volume 9 The Folk Song of the East …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… were usually adaptations of popular Arabic and Turkish songs. The old style Ottoman-Jewish musical tradition was … the 20 th century in Jerusalem and is a combination of the Hebrew language, which forms the base of prayers and … University of Chicago Press, 1998. * Translated from the Hebrew original in 'An Invitation to Piyut' website, by Elie …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… apparently for the first time, as a manuscript addition (Hebrew and Yiddish) to a copy of the Ashkenazi haggadah … those of “ H ad gadya” and “Addir hu,” was published in Hebrew (with a few Aramaic words) along with a translation … similar serial patterns of question and answer counting songs in other traditions, such as Muslim, Latin, German, …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, 1928. … was previously set to a variety of religious poems in Hebrew and Yiddish. It was also featured in many … In his article about the Hassidic niggun in the modern Hebrew song repertory, Yaacov Mazor mentions the same melody …
La Gallarda matadora
… possible connections. Background Sepharad is the medieval Hebrew name for the Iberian Peninsula. The Sephardic Jews' … morphological and phonological features adopted from Hebrew and the local languages of the peoples that … their diasporic communities Sephardim sang a repertoire of songs in Ladino, belonging to different genres such as …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… droshe-geshank-oyfshpiln and other entertainment songs...” Fater 1985, pp. 60-61 . “Mitzvah Dance ( Mitsve … . Harkavi is the only one that in his Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary made a distinction between kosher-tants -- …
Dobridzien (LKT)
… an allusion to ‘honey and milk under your tongue’ (Song of Songs, 4:11)... Harkavi, in the already cited Verterbukh , defines the dobridzien in English and Hebrew, that this was music that was played to honor the … Lithuania, 1880-1900]. Zizmor 1922a, p. 874 . “After songs had become stylish, especially in Zunser’s times, the …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… in the same fashion. [4] The Hillula at Mount Meron and the Songs of Rabbi Shim’on Bar Yohai The Hillula in Meron begins … Ha-Elokai.' The song is mostly constructed according to the Hebrew acrostics of “atbash” (alternating the Hebrew alphabet in direct and reverse orders; certain …