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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 simplest … a live performance humorously equated this song with the Jewish equivalent of calling the police, saying, “This is …
Karev Yom
… of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after … artistic ambitions could not find expression in a besieged community bound to a war of survival of uncertain results. … sound and the packaging of Bikel’s album catered to this Jewish market and its imagination of the new Israel. The …
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 … informs us about the modern crisis of the diasporic Jewish community and its splintering into discrete and often …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… 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 … on the level of religious observance in each specific community. For example, in central Yemen cities such as the …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… town of Jesberg near Kassel on March 14, 1841. However the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) places his birth place in … the Mosel and in 1864 was called to serve at the developing community in Speyer. Two musicians were among his teachers: … Professor J. Hess from Heidelberg; and (according to the Jewish Encyclopedia ) the “choir leader Benz,” who taught …
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 … these songs for his contemporaneous American Jewish community as it is about preserving them for future … many) produced by Harry Coopersmith (such as the “Jewish Community Songster” (1931) and the “Songs of Zion” (1942)). …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … also attested in several medieval manuscripts of the Roman Jewish rite available at the IMHM catalogue. The persistence … as an order according to the order and tradition of the community of Niren Burg that they had from times immemorial …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs for youth, and …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a performing stage, even though major … the tradition of Calcutta (Kolkata), whose Jewish community traces its origins to Baghdadi Jewry. Sephardic …
Max Lempel
… Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900 into an assimilated Jewish family. He studied at the Akademie für Musik und … of Music . Sources: Hirshberg, Jehoash. Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948: A Social History . Oxford: …