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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… shows how a distinct Zionist music culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its … informs us about the modern crisis of the diasporic Jewish community and its splintering into discrete and often …
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. … musicians who were active in the musical scene of British Palestine, Sara Levi-Tanai and Yehiel Adaqi. Only one of the …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… 82-83. Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, … songs for Purim in Europe and in the Jewish settlement in Palestine/Israel where it remains alive to this day among … teachers and sung by children all over the Jewish community in British Palestine (Naor 2008). The songs were …
Sher
… “Sher: One of the most common dance forms in the Jewish repertoire, similar to a square dance or a Russian … 1968, pp. 24-26 . “We find in a memorial book of the community of Dubno... in the repertoire [of the … thunder through the ‘sherele’ and ‘kadril’ tunes,”[Gedara, Palestinee, c. 1910s]. Fridhaber 1992, p. 398 . “[At …
Quadrille (LKT)
… with him in the middle, just as at a wedding in a little Jewish town.” [Nikolayev, Kherson province, afterwards, … Feldman 1994, p. 10 . “We find in a memorial book of the community of Dubno... in the repertoire [of the klezmorim … the ‘polka,’ ‘kadril’ and ‘lanse’ ...” [Gedara, Palestine, 1888]. Fridhaber 1992, p. 396 . “‘And the …
Tsu der khupe (LKT)
… melody [as the bride is led to the khupe ].” [Gedara, Palestine, first aliya , c. 1910s]. Fridhaber 1992, p. 398 … p. 146 . “At dawn... Maharil and a few notables of the community go to the home of the bridegroom and bring him to … wedding scene. It is peformed by the State Ensemble of Jewish Folk Music of the Ukrainian S.S.R. recorded in the …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… status it acquired exemplify the mechanisms through which Jewish modernity articulated itself on the basis of German … since at least 1894 as well as among the Jewish settlers in Palestine around the same time. It was also recorded … moving performance of the song by the cantor of the Jewish community in Basel, Sigmund Drujan-Bollag, took place during …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… Since the establishment of this community, the Karaites have maintained the basic principles … that period, other Karaite communities were founded across Palestine—in Ramleh and Tiberius—as well as in Egypt and … melody to the same text is performed by Avraham Kanai, a Jewish Karaite from Kazakhstan. The third melody originated …
Elohim Eshala
… exoticism” that captivated at the time the American Jewish audience. It is clear that the voices of Shoshana … of the first radio station of Mandatory British Palestine, called in Hebrew Kol Yerushalayim, the then young … has to be reminded that in the traditional Yemenite Jewish community the voice of a woman was technically forbidden for …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… Borodin and Moussorgsky – was introduced to the Russian Jewish composer and music critic Joel Engel . Stasov … laid much of the foundation of modern art music written in Palestine and later Israel, as well as Israeli popular and … reputation preceded him, and he was greeted by the Jewish community as a giant. He died of fever after only two years …