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The Idelsohn Project
Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in the world is “Hava…
15. Cinco años ya va hacer (CES)
… the text of this song (Wiener 1903/4 , no. XVIII). Wiener’s informants for this song were “professional singers at … by Wiener with an additional stanza he received from an informant from Sarajevo. Wiener and Levy’s versions share a …
22. La galana (CES)
… recording by Roza Avzaradel (NSA Y 05824) described by the informant as a wedding song. Its opening line is: “Yo quería …
28. El robo de Dina (CES)
… in the version of this romance recorded by the important informant Estrea Aeliyon (PF 185/04) and by Hemsi ( 1995 , …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… heard in early ethnographic recordings and interviews with informants, as well as many in art performances. Another …
Yehi shalom (zemer le-berit milah)
… Baghdad on July 21, 1913. Cylinder # 658. 2:02 The informant sings the first two stanzas and half of the third …
Keriat ha-Torah and Birkhot ha-Torah
… and following the reading. After the second blessing the informant repeats the first two verses of the reading in an …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… the others in this photograph were among Idelsohn's musical informants in Jerusalem. (MUS 0004 K 07_1). Germany, …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… in his life the Chief Rabbi in Rome, and who also acted as informant of the distinguished ethnomusicologist Leo Levi , … The recording was made in February 1954 in Milan. The informant, Raoul Elia, had moved to Milan after the war and …