(252 results found)
The World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine, 1936–1940: Jewish Musical Life on the Eve of World War II
… A survey of the history and personalities of an ambitions pre-World War II … to create an institution that will document and promote Jewish music while moving the operations from an insecure … New York … Oxford University Press … … 1992 … Palestine … Jewish music … Research … Preservation … Documentation … …
Israeli folksongs
… songs that deal mostly with themes that the majority of the Jewish population of Israel (not including the … to the land), can identify with. These include: scenery, history, as well as the security and the settling of the … was created as an effort on the part of the first Aliyah (Jewish-Zionist immigration and settling in Palestine) to …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… 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 the history of the entire Jewish …
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
… other story told is of Yiddish theater itself, some of its history in the United States and some of the people, plays … … Yiddish Theater … Yiddish songs … Yiddish … Diasporic Jewish Culture … New York City … America … Immigrants … …
Had Gadya
… of intensive study by a distinguished gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting … Gadya is the article by Menachem Zvi (Harry) Fox, “On the history of the songs ‘E h ad mi yode’a’ and ‘ H ad Gadya’ in …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… of intensive study by a distinguished gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting … ad Gadya, the article by Menachem Zvi (Harry) Fox, “On the history of the songs ‘E h ad mi yode’a’ and ‘ H ad Gadya’ in …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… 720 … In honor of May Day and the tradition of Jewish political radicalism in late nineteenth-century … 1901 by S. An-sky (Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport [1863-1920]) the Jewish writer, ethnographer, poet, and radical. The song's … wherever they live, and wherever they have a cultural history rather than immigrate to Palestine. This concept was …
Ve-Hi She-’Amda – Piyyut from the Passover Haggadah
… and the author is unknown. It addresses how, throughout history, many enemies have arisen seeking to destroy Israel, … this piyyut, in order to emphasize the salvation of the Jewish nation from utter destruction. In Ashkenazi …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… 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 … Taurus. Goldberg, Harvey E. | 'גולדברג, הארוי א 2003 Jewish passages: cycles of Jewish life . Berkeley: …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… History of the Hillula of Rabbi Shim’on Bar Yohai in Mount … the written sources, Yaari found that the “Musta'aravim” (Jewish residents of the Land of Israel, who, for … haircut. During these celebrations, members of the various Jewish communities sing piyyutim that were written in honor …