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Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… “The songs of Leibu await definitive professional evaluation,” … and translation of all the texts into English, Hebrew and Russian as well as biographical information about … Bukovina, USSR, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem … Anthology of Music …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Coopersmith Hebrew version 1942: … ps://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/attachments/Hebrew%20version%20Coopersmith%201942.jpg Emil Saculet … (‘Today is Purim, Brothers’) is one of the most familiar songs in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… her unique, wide-ranging style, is in fact a suite of Purim songs. It opens with ‘Haint Iz Purim, Brider,’ which … includes therefore the stanza before the last (on the Hebrew letter “shin”), the last one (on the letter “tav”) … present day. Feig sings Kipnis’ ‘Hag Purim, Hag Purim’ in Hebrew and Yiddish, a common practice in American Jewish …
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 … The text draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist songbooks and collections from the … and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only dimly remembered by …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… ever since the day of the Renaissance Humanists. [1] The Hebrew chanting depends on the text, and is determined by … on Purim; and (6) one for the festive megillot —Song of Songs, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes—read on Passover, Shavuot, and … which are given above or below each word in a printed Hebrew Bible, serve three functions: they indicate the …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Friedman’s compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and interpretations of liturgical and religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs … octave leap at the opening of a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject appeals …
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 … Ashkenazi communities, a paraphrase in Yiddish followed the Hebrew text phrase by phrase, a common learning technique in … W. Binder, Seder Melodies: The Hagaddah Set to Music: in Hebrew and English for the Religious School, Congregational …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… one of the last great poets of the Spanish 'Golden Age' of Hebrew poetry. Ibn Ezra was born in Tudela, Spain in 1089 … Ibn Ezra wrote Biblical commentary, poetry, research on Hebrew grammar, writings concerning Jewish thought … during the Sabbath. Therefore, a prominent motif in these songs is the figure of Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu), whose …
Arba Otiyot
… and the members of the rabbinical dynasty he founded. The songs have been codified in a compendium titled Yagel Yaacov … developed by the Piyut Ensemble of the Ben-Zvi Institute, a Hebrew University institution dedicated to the research of … Institute/NaNa Disk … Contemporary Jewish Music … Sacred Hebrew Songs from the Saharan Maghreb … Piyyutim … 5 … 2017 …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Berry Sacharov - 2012 … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original performance context or with their melodies of old. The Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in … Moreover, the catalogue of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts at the National Library of Israel lists …