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Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… 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 … clarinet, violin and double bass accompanying the singing. They only sing up to the number five and towards …
Vals (LKT)
… a long time now the folkdance has had been accompanied by singing and song; and not only to [modern couple dances such … waltz meter, usually joyful. Waltzes were adopted from non-Jewish cultures by the Hasidic dynasties in Poland and … year was 1895... After the ceremony, as is customary in a Jewish wedding, the newlyweds were led into a private …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… This article shows the crystallization of the prayer and singing style known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … singing tradition found among the descendants of the Jewish communities exiled from Spain to the lands of Islam …
And Now We're All Brothers: Singing In Yiddish In Contemporary North America
… most particularly the Holocaust and the construction of Jewish identities through musical performances. … 1 … … … … 2013 … Abigail Wood … And Now We're All Brothers: Singing In Yiddish In Contemporary North America …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… created a number of songs about poverty and how the Jewish community “dealt with economic problems on the … a live performance humorously equated this song with the Jewish equivalent of calling the police, saying, “This is … of the poet Haim Nahman Bialik, an acquaintance, she began singing Yiddish folk songs, becoming one of the first female …
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 … to wander around the streets of Rishon le-Tziyyon loudly singing the Russian revolutionary song ‘Mi za svobodu …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… … Background Qad Zawajunī is a form of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is sung … h enna ceremony as part of the repertoire of Yemenite Jewish women singers. In Yemen, the separation of men and …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… song, reflecting once again the intricate ways in which Jewish repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the … The recordings’ section of the Jacob Michael Collection of Jewish Music at the National Sound Archives of the Israel … niggun . This type of performance recalls the patterns of singing ‘Shoshanat Yaakov’ by the Hassidim of the Modzhitz …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… library at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was “Six Songs from the Jewish Homeland, Arranged for Mixed Voices.” [2] This … following: I learned the song (by ear) as a child from the singing of a woman named Molly Sallen, who taught in the …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a … ———. Forthcoming. Singing God’s Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in …