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The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… The beautiful Dutch synagogue is also known by its Ladino name, Esnoga, and is one of the Dutch Jewish community's most important structures. Its history and that of Amsterdam's Jewish community reflects …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… The album includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews … בן-נאה, ירון 2008 Jews in the realm of the Sultans: Ottoman Jewish society in the seventeenth century . Tübingen: Mohr … Esther | בן בסה, אסתר, ואהרון רודריג 2000 Sephardi Jewry: a history of the Judeo-Spanish community, 14th-20th centuries …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… History of the Hillula of Rabbi Shim’on Bar Yohai in Mount Meron The … the written sources, Yaari found that the “Musta'aravim” (Jewish residents of the Land of Israel, who, for … range is limited. The meter is duple, like most Hassidic dance niggunim; the rhythm is very simple and generally fits …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukah Songs
… Over the generations Hanukah has generated a substantial … Within his vast oeuvre there are a handful of songs with Jewish themes, and a few of them are specifically related to … would share songs and Woody would study Jewish texts and history. In the late 1940s Guthrie wrote a handful of …
La Gallarda matadora
… Our Song of the Month is dedicated to Sephardic music and flamenco, two … who brought the seeds of flamenco to Spain. Moreover, the Jewish expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula occurred … form. On the other hand, the various versions of the history of flamenco almost always mention some Jewish …
Sher
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles … “Sher: One of the most common dance forms in the Jewish repertoire, similar to a square dance or a Russian … German folklorist Franz Bohme, whose work on the history of the dance in Germany (1967 [1886], 1:56) served …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… collection Example 6 Notation and 1st and 7th verses to the wedding song based on "E h ad mi yodea" found in I.L. … substantial scholarship on this subject, will focus on the history of this song within the haggadah , the question of … the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish traditions. “E h ad mi yodea” is a cumulative song. …
Karev Yom
… I am still living the life of those times… Theodore Bikel On October 2, … of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after … by Joshua Kulp from The Schechter Haggadah: Art, History and Commentary (Jerusalem, 2009): Draw near the day …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… to a barrage of factual and fictional information that, in the Internet Age, circulates virally in diverse variants, … culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its … sons of Rishon le-Tziyyon perceived in this song their own history, and sang it with great pride [here the song is …
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 America – A. W. … into obscurity and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only … version of the melody, perhaps one sung without text as a dance niggun – more about this later. The text of the song …