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Klezmer (pl. Klezmorim)

… Eastern-European Jewish folk musician, generally instrumentalist. …

… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … in that the piyyutim are arranged according to the maqamat (musical modes) in use in the court music of the Ottoman … of the Morrocan Baqqashot melodies are modern 20th century folk melodies from Egypt and other Middle-Eastern countries, …

Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh

… the identification of texts’ author and an additional musical version, very different from the one we released … haviv, ner na’eh’ is in spirit and language a short song in folk style with simple rhymes, and was probably selected … by Sh. Shalom reveals the musical abyss separating diverse Jewish sectors cohabiting in very close proximity in …

Moyshelekh Un Shloymelekh (part 2)

… Union College. It was published in New York (by Hensley Music Co.: Metro Music Co.) in 1966. Papernikoff's text portrays the tender Jewish children of Bialik during the Holocaust. They do not … Kovner, Abba and Leichter, Sinai. Anthology of Yiddish folksongs . Jerusalem:‎‪ Magnes Press,‎ 1989. … 21770 … …

Freylekhs

… term that, in this case, signifies a musical genre. It seems that Freylekhs tunes comprised … of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). [1] Moshe Beregovski, Jewish Instrumental Folk Music , Vol. III (М.Я.Береговский. Еврейская народная …

Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim

… the four days of fast, and thrice on Yom Kippur. All of the Jewish communities in Israel, both Sephardic and Ashkenazi, … the words ' Yishar koa h .' The Simple Reading The musical capabilities of the priests are very diverse and … the other hand, the Eastern European music's source is from folkloric inventions of the priests. In similarity with folk …

Elohim Eshala

… Michael Collection, R 0080. This is a copy of the 1958 Folkways release by the Israeli singer Geula Gill “Yemenite … They formed an ensemble specializing on Israeli “folk music” called “Oranim Tzabar” playing arrangements by … exoticism” that captivated at the time the American Jewish audience. It is clear that the voices of Shoshana …

Brakha Tzefira

… His wife Hadassah, Brakha's beloved teacher, encouraged her musical talents, and proposed that Tzefira should sing … Tzefira knew from her childhood including Sephardic songs, Jewish songs from Yemen, Persia, and Bukhara, as well as … event. Tzefira's turn to art music, rather than the Israeli folksong, was acclaimed by some, while criticized by others. …

Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)

… influenced by Slavic languages. Both the language and the folksongs, like many other elements of Ashkenazi culture, … baby, a secular activity, was sometimes accompanied by non-Jewish melodies, sometimes by religious melodies, and … strata, makes it possible to speculate in regards to the musical development of the tradition, despite the lack of …

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 aesthetics, in this case poetic and musical. Dort wo die Zeder also shows how the Zionist … the song a mythic aura that is commonly associated with folksongs. Dort wo die Zeder consists of four stanzas of six …