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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…
The Idelsohn Project
Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is “Hava…
15. Cinco años ya va hacer (CES)
One of the widespread Judeo-Spanish songs of the early twentieth century that…
22. La galana (CES)
A love song that apparently disappeared from oral tradition. However, it was popular in…
28. El robo de Dina (CES)
A very truncated version of the romance El robo de Dina, based on the Biblical story of…
Yehi shalom (zemer le-berit milah)
Yehi shalom (zemer le-berit milah). Let there be peace (tune for the circumcision…
Keriat ha-Torah and Birkhot ha-Torah
Keriat ha-Torah (Reading of the Torah); Birkhot ha-Torah (Blessings of…
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of Idelsohn’…