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Rabbi David Buzaglo
… is an opportunity to revive his biography in our website. A musical and rabbinical prodigy since his early days, Rabbi … exponentially in the collective memory of the Moroccan Jewish diaspora. [3] After receiving a traditional Jewish … Pinto recordings were donated to the Archive of American Folk Song (today the American Folklife Center) at the …
Yaakov Huri
… relations dominating the encounters between European ethnomusicologists and their subjects of inquiry in Israel. Our … as rabbi. Huri belonged to the Zionist sector of the Jewish community. This sector, unlike the yeshivah students … the ‘edot”, a nomenclature that was favored by the Israeli folkloristics and media. To cover such vast regional and …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … investigation: “The Hasidic Nigun: Ethos and Melos of a Folk Liturgy.” In these two surveys, focusing on a few … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is …
Sarah Gorby
… , Bessarabia (now Chișinău, Moldova), was a renowned Jewish singer known for performing Yiddish, Russian, and French folk songs. Her birth name was Sofia Gorbovskaya, and she … culturally rich environment, significantly influencing her musical career. Gorby showed an early interest in music and …
Léibele Schwartz
… on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began his music studies as a child with his father, Yaakov, who was a … , and on the bilingual radio program La Hora Israelita (The Jewish Hour) in the Radio Porteña station. In 1947, at the … Yom Kipur" (Panzer Records) "Leibele Schwartz in four folksongs" (Sung in Yiddish)/ Leibele Schwartz, vocals; …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … love the synagogal modes and “Zemiroth” as well as Jewish Folk-Songs. At home I received an orthodox education and …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … was [because] the Hebrew songs were sung to foreign folk melodies. I am certain that the kindergarten songs of …
Kol Nidrei (Gebet am Jom Kipur) – Kol Nidrei (Yom Kippur Prayer)
… Mixing liturgical with folk tunes in one album is a modernistic approach that challenged established categories in Jewish music research. This concept was already introduced in the …
Chassidisches Lied – Hasidic Song
… in G-od, the almighty, have developed a strong sense for music within their soul. For the Chassid the song and dance … moving, this repetition reflects the perseverance of the Jewish belief: The Chassidic nigun is splits up to smaller … ibid., pp. 26–7. [2] Ibid. … Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes … Ashkenazim … Cello - Violoncello … Folk songs … …
Bulbe (Volkslied) – “Potato” (Folksong)
… may be classified as a humoristic-satiric Eastern-European Jewish folksong. About this category Stutschewsky wrote two … - Violoncello … Folk songs … Joachim Stutschewsky … Klezmer music … Bulbe (Volkslied) – “Potato” (Folksong) …