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Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… the Baqqashot to this very day; his book, Zemirot Yisra’el (Songs of Israel) was published in three editions: Safed … of the Sephardi Jews of Spain (tunes of Judeo-Spanish songs) and of the peoples of the region: Arabic, Turkish, … Ve-Sefer Ha-Baqqashot Le-Shabbat' (The Complete Book of Songs and Book of Baqqashot for the Sabbath), edited by Haim …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… the synagogal modes and “Zemiroth” as well as Jewish Folk-Songs. At home I received an orthodox education and … he used to fit to the texts of the zemiros [Sabbath table songs] and to recycle them over the course of many hours on … Later I found out, that they were [tunes of] Polish folksongs or Hussar [cavalry] marches. The local as well as the …
Tish
In Yiddish, Tish means table. In the Hasidic movement, the Tish is the public feast of…

Freylekhs (LKT)
… accompanied by singing... The possibility that such songs (e.g., frejlaxs ) were sung in other Ukrainian … celebration when [one was] angry... perhaps... freylekhs -songs are the product of dance improvisation...” Levinson …

«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… during the Sabbath. Therefore, a prominent motif in these songs is the figure of Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu), whose … version (which means primarily Baghdadi) appears among songs for the Sabbath, the Sephardic version is included in a chapter of pizmonim (religious songs with refrain) not associated with a particular time, …