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On musical connections between Jews and the neighboring peoples of Eastern and Western Europe
… Massachusetts at Amherst … no. 18 … … 1989 … Maks Gol'din … Jewish folk music in Europe … Klezmer music … Ashkenazi … Max Goldin … …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… as we pointed out on traditional formulae) shows that the folk tradition in Yiddish lacked family songs for Purim. … As time passed and the zamelbukh spread, the song was folklorized, as attested to by its 1932 appearance in … Besides America and Israel, the song continued to live in Europe. It appears for example in a choral arrangement in …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks … an old Yiddish melody that was reclaimed by Hebrewists in Europe or Palestine. Further exploration has proven that … of this melody appears in A.W. Binder’s “New Palestinean Folk Songs,” it is important to explore first the history of …
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 … role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … career began in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … the same melody. The melody itself presents a mixture of a folk tune and a psalmodic chant. It is simple, easily …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, … of David Edelstadt from the earliest edition of his songs, Folks Gedikhte , New York, Hebrew Publications Company, …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … how the dabke , one of the region’s most popular folk dances, belonged to the Palestinian national struggle: …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … the “Western” melody, i.e. Sulzer’s, is similar to German folk melodies, some documented as early as the fifteenth …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a joint … in different post-war sub-disciplines of musicology such as folk music research, Cantus-Planus-research, or the study of …