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Chasidic in America
… The song ‘Chasidic in America’ was originally sung by cantor … credited as director). Oysher and Weiss also recorded the song in 1938 with Dave Tarras, the legendary klezmer … Lexicon of the Yiddish Theater , vol. 3. New York: The Hebrew Actors Union of America, 1959, pp. 2407-2415. 1 …
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 …
Dobridzien (LKT)
… This was 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 …
Badekns (LKT)
… references included). “The [ beroyges ] dance ended, the song was stopped. The groom approached and covered the face … began to sing rhymed couplets in Yiddish, and sometimes in Hebrew as well, accompanied by the fiddlers...” [Wegrow, …
Tants nign (LKT)
… “A tune used mostly for dancing. It seems that the Hebrew term is actually a translation of the earlier Yiddish … notation and recording references included). “The dance-song is a collective folk-expression which derived from the need to sing for the dance and to dance for the song. The social dances that have no accompanying song …
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 -- …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… from the ornery antisemite had everything to do with his Hebrew first name. [28] Picture 6: Solomon Rosowsky (far … Zionist, and later the first professor of music at the Hebrew University. In 1907, the same year in which Shor … for Society for Jewish Folk Music, 'Evening of Jewish Folk Song,' Sunday, April 12, 1909, with the participation of Iu. …
La Gallarda matadora
… Our Song of the Month is dedicated to Sephardic music and … 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 …
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 …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… Example 6 Notation and 1st and 7th verses to the wedding song based on "E h ad mi yodea" found in I.L. Cahan's 1957 … 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 …