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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 … (nine stanzas) appeared in Yehuda Leib Cohen's Yiddishe Folkslieder mit Melodien (1957), where the text appears … begins with the introductory “khapt im, nempt im” line. The music to this opening section is more dense than in the rest …
Karev Yom
… The interview was held at the initiative of the Israeli music connoisseur and collector Dudi Patimer. Speaking live … of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… energy rather than legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its …
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
… Purim brider' from the Ruth Rubin's archival collection, "Folksongs and Folklore 1948-1967 – Holidays' Songs – Purim." Recorded 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 …
Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… we encounter the fateful question if this kind of music making is at all in the nature of man, and therefore … research. … 9480 … Vocal … Vocal music … Polyphony … Folk music … Instruments … Percussion … Definitions … Monophony … Jewish … Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in …
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 …