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The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… the 20 th century and still exists today. Two central, modern figures in this tradition, that is, composers of …
The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment.
… Examines the office of the modern Amrican cantor through a detailed ethnography of the …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… their performance on Kremer’s recording. Listening to this modern version, one can hear that the structure of the song …
Karev Yom
… deep baritone voice, Bikel reprimanded Gazit in highbrow modern Hebrew by saying that “the Hebrew language is still … Israel composers that dominated the “golden age” of the modern Hebrew song in the 1930s and 1940s: Matitiyahu Shelem … The present musical setting however provided it with a modern existence as an independent song. This melody was …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… It also exemplifies the elusiveness of the symbols of modern nation-states. From the outset, we note that this is … diasporas, was a crucial component in the nourishing of the modern Jewish national sentiment in the first two decades of … its text is a proof of how racial discourses had permeated modern perceptions of “being Jewish.” Finally, studying …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… … Archival recordings … Bukovina … Historical recordings … Modern Yiddish stage … Non-religious Yiddish music … USSR … …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… studying them shows the complex process through which modern favorites in the Jewish repertoire were constructed … Kisselgof and his colleagues attempted to provide modern Jewish families with educational songs for all the … Abraham Goldfaden (right), for many the “founder” of modern Yiddish theatre. Indeed, the melody appears for the …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the modern period. One of the recordings of this song that we … rhythmic melodies, a tradition that was maintained in the modern Israeli repertoire of Purim songs, especially for … wordless niggunim are mediated by their adoption to modern Yiddish and Hebrew song texts. References Brown, …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… obscurity and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only dimly … culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even into modern synagogue liturgical practice. As the first published … his first efforts in what would be a life-long devotion to modern Hebrew song. In 1922 Binder began his position as …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… in both sections as one of the main sources for the modern musicological use of the term. Dalia Cohen (2006, … (2013) correlates the Tiberian system of te’amim with the modern prosodic hierarchy, theorized in Selkirk 1984 and … e.g., “te’amim” and “ta’am.” The transliteration follows modern ( Sephardi ) Hebrew. [10] Jacobson 2013 and Strauss …