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Mordkhe Shekhter
… 1927, in Czernowitz, Ukraine. He descended from a secular Jewish family. Until 1940 he was a pupil in a Romanian … During this period, he worked for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, as a zamler , or collector, for the YIVO … Early Childhood: An English-Yiddish Dictionary (1991), The History of the Standardized Yiddish Spelling (1999), …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukah Songs
… Within his vast oeuvre there are a handful of songs with Jewish themes, and a few of them are specifically related to Hanukah. Guthrie himself was not Jewish; however his second wife, Marjorie Mazia Greenblatt, … would share songs and Woody would study Jewish texts and history. In the late 1940s Guthrie wrote a handful of …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a … days a half century earlier: [1] “Why are there so many Jewish students at the St. Petersburg Conservatory? Because … of Jewish musicians at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The history of the Society for Jewish Folk Music is often told …
Leo Wiener
… ' Leo Weiner ' in Wikipedia. More sources: Leo Wiener, History of Yiddish literature in the nineteenth century . …
La Gallarda matadora
… 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 influence on the development of flamenco, although it …
Sher
… “Sher: One of the most common dance forms in the Jewish repertoire, similar to a square dance or a Russian … their weddings and celebrations, to which they invited Jewish musicians. The Ukrainian youth there danced the šer … 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
… 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. … – God; two – the two tablets of the covenant; three – the Jewish patriarchs; four – the Jewish matriarchs; five – the …
Arbie Orenstein
… he has taught for 45 years, focusing on European music history and Jewish music. Arbie Orenstein is the author of two major … for the Dover reprint of Idelsohn's classic text, Jewish Music in Its Historical Development . He was the …
Karev Yom
… of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after … sound and the packaging of Bikel’s album catered to this Jewish market and its imagination of the new Israel. The … by Joshua Kulp from The Schechter Haggadah: Art, History and Commentary (Jerusalem, 2009): Draw near the day …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its practice at ceremonies of Jewish institutions, synagogues, schools and youth … sons of Rishon le-Tziyyon perceived in this song their own history, and sang it with great pride [here the song is …