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Ades Synagogue
… countries, particularly the U.S., England, different Latin American countries, and Palestine, where most of these …
Havana Nagila: The Jews of Cuba
… Cruz. … 9 … Ergo Media Inc. … … 1995 … Cuba … Hava Nagila … Latin America … Havana Nagila: The Jews of Cuba …
‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)
… characters, both historical and fictional (like some of the American Jewish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer's characters of … watching your back. While at the same time, today in North America, assimilating. […] I am thinking about the term 'passing.' As a …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… praise on Jews for their collective musical gifts but postulating that their ethnic origins obliged them to write … The St. Petersburg Score Collection. A Project of the American Society for Jewish Music . Click on the picture to … ca. 1908. Credit: Jewish Theological Seminary of America . The dilemma of the relationship between …
Leo Wiener
… born in Bialystok, Russian Empire in 1862. He was an American historian, linguist, author and translator. Wiener … Slavic cultures at Harvard University and became the first American professor of Slavic literature. One of his many … and he introduced him to the world by translating his poems and essays into English. He died in 1939 …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… answer counting songs in other traditions, such as Muslim, Latin, German, and English in order to establish what the … and the Hebrew Chant of ‘Echod Mi Yodea’.” Journal of American Folklore 62, no. 246 (1949): 382-411. [1] …
Karev Yom
… justification, his cosmopolitan persona or his career as an American theatre and movie actor, entertainer, and folk song … big hit for us. He was a working actor just starting out in America and on Broadway, but he was the pivot point for … Passover (see Mahzor Vitry, Ms. Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, no. 2574, fol. 228). This piyyut already appears as …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… recordings throughout the European, Middle Eastern and American Jewish diasporas, was a crucial component in the … to this song but a variant of a melodic pattern circulating in Rumania/Moldavia. [12] According to Levin (note 1 … Polygenesis?” to this pervasive melody-type that been circulating throughout Europe for centuries and has generated …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Purim, Brothers’) is one of the most familiar songs in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many American Jewish songsters at least since Samuel E. … but we could not confirm this assertion. The song was circulating in Hebrew also in America already in 1925, as we have …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in America – A. W. Binder (1895-1966) notated and arranged a … provides a fascinating window into the intersections of American, Palestinian and European Zionism, mid-century … with piano accompaniment and the text is transliterated in Latin letters in an inconsistent mix of Ashkenazic and …