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Cute Boy, Charming Girl: Children's Songs of the Modern Hebrew Nation (1882-1948)

22. The Goose and Her Goslings

… World War, was composed by no less than three important Jewish composers within the span of a decade or so: David … one of the founding fathers of the national school of Jewish music in Imperial Russia, in 1925 while already …

12. Let's Go Out to March

… Not all of the holiday songs were necessarily related to the Jewish religious cycle. Some songs addressed new secular …

Letter of Hemda Ben Yehuda to Abraham Z. Idelsohn

Source Readings in Jewish Music

… archives and rare sources, addressing diverse aspects of Jewish music research. These materials include introductions … Religieux; Composés Pour Les Prières Hébraìques My Path to Jewish Music - A Collection of Essays by Joachim … Ethnographic Imports / Assaf Shelleg … Source Readings in Jewish Music … article …

11. Thank You Song

… The kibbutzim celebrated the original agricultural facet of Jewish holidays as an educational experience for the …

6. Tu B'Shevat Anthem

… cycle. During the Middle Ages it was customary among Jewish communities to eat fifteen different kinds of fruit. … of the Zionist movement in the nineteenth century, this Jewish Arbor Day acquired a national character, more so than any other traditional Jewish holiday. This renewed holiday marked the redemption …

1. Summer is Over

… "Summer is Over" was written for Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year). Yet, the song does not mention any of the …

Or Haganuz: Gems of Ashkenazi Hazzanut and Yiddish Songs Revived

Eileh Toldot Noah ["This is the story of Noah"]

… of Eliyahu-Chaim Sheps, 1892-1968), a member of the Warsaw Jewish folklore researchers' circle, whose members were …

Steve Reich

… jazz rhythms, and, later in his career, elements of his Jewish heritage. Notable works include Drumming (1971), …

Translating Tropes (and Psalmodies): New Sources on Steve Reich’s Ethnographic Imports

… Reich wrote to Israel Adler, then the director of the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University of … sojourn to Israel were located in the archive of the Jewish Music Research Centre, which has been recently … between the lines, he disclosed (confessed?) to his Reform Jewish background, to having been engaged with Hebrew in his …