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Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… of intensive study by a distinguished gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting … 31 (1895), 240-246). Some scholars have pointed to Jewish texts as a source of inspiration for H ad Gadya, most …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… In honor of May Day and the tradition of Jewish political radicalism in late nineteenth-century … 1901 by S. An-sky (Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport [1863-1920]) the Jewish writer, ethnographer, poet, and radical. The song's … David. 2002. “Introduction.” In The Dybbuk and other Texts by S. An-sky, translated by Golda Werman. New Haven: …
Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture
… Such melodies could be transferred to other liturgical texts in the liturgy of the same Holy Day, such as Lekha … or schüttelnmelodie , was also sung with other texts of the Sukkoth liturgy as well as with Shir hama’alot … the second half of the twentieth century, when many German Jewish liturgical traditions fell into oblivion, the …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… and Hebrew) that includes detailed commentaries on the contexts of performance of the songs, their language and … בן-נאה, ירון 2008 Jews in the realm of the Sultans: Ottoman Jewish society in the seventeenth century . Tübingen: Mohr … Taurus. Goldberg, Harvey E. | 'גולדברג, הארוי א 2003 Jewish passages: cycles of Jewish life . Berkeley: …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… singular khusid ] were cornerstones of Leon’s old-time, Jewish dance repertoire. He often referred to them as a … [ mitsve dance], alluding to their frequent use at Jewish weddings to accompany the mitsve [ritual … is a well-known Russian-Jewish folk tune with a variety of texts in Russian and Yiddish, some of them quite risqu’e, …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukah Songs
… Within his vast oeuvre there are a handful of songs with Jewish themes, and a few of them are specifically related to Hanukah. Guthrie himself was not Jewish; however his second wife, Marjorie Mazia Greenblatt, … They would share songs and Woody would study Jewish texts and history. In the late 1940s Guthrie wrote a handful …
Tants nign (LKT)
… may be sung during the sabath and festival services to texts such as Lo tevoshi (from Lekha dodi ) and the Kaddish … in the modern era. The dance-song was preserved by the Jewish masses a long time after the social dances had …
Hopke (LKT)
… the hopak . (The name hopak was folklorized into hopke .) Jewish kozachok melodies were borrowed, but in the klezmer … in the klezmer repertoire. They did not acquire a Jewish sound. The kozachoks and hopaks that were adopted are … may also apply to niggunim of rejoicing, sung to liturgical texts.” Mazor and Seroussi 1990/91, p. 124 . “Hopke. …
La Gallarda matadora
… who brought the seeds of flamenco to Spain. Moreover, the Jewish expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula occurred … of the history of flamenco almost always mention some Jewish influence on the development of flamenco, although it … cannot be supported by any tangible evidence. Yet, modern texts nurtured such a connection in the context of the …
Marsh (LKT)
… Ukraine, 1820s-30s]. Fridkin 1925, p. 46 . “A Jewish wedding in the shtetl was a holiday... When Arish the … tunes which were usually adopted from the surrounding non-Jewish cultures. The adoption of marches by Hasidim is part … Marches are introduced during the services to poetic texts, such as Lekhah dodi and El adon for the sabbath... …