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Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… Ancis for four part men's choir. New York: Transcontinental Music Corporation, 1945. Example 5 Moisei Beregovski, … 82-83. Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, … rash'). In his article about the Hassidic niggun in the modern Hebrew song repertory, Yaacov Mazor mentions the same …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… focusing on changes introduced to the text and the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish traditions. “E h ad mi yodea” is a cumulative song. … H asidim and the Lubavitcher Rebbe singing “Ekh ti zimliak” Modern composer, pedagogue and scholar, Andre Hajdu , …

Jüdische Volksmusik: Eine mitteleuropäische Geistesgeschichte
… by scholars and folklorists, mostly of introductions to Jewish folk song collections, arranged by topics and … author. It provides an overview of the development of the modern conceptualization of Jewish folksongs in Central European learned circles of musicians and Jewish studies scholars. … 2 … 33945 … Vienna …

Vals (LKT)
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … had been accompanied by singing and song; and not only to [modern couple dances such as] the polka did people improvise … waltz meter, usually joyful. Waltzes were adopted from non-Jewish cultures by the Hasidic dynasties in Poland and …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … th centuries and developed under Turkish-Ottoman and Arabic musical influences. Contents The tradition of … 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 School of Sacred Music of the Hebrew Union College with emphasis on the … Indiana University Press … … 2009 … The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment. …
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 … begins with the introductory “khapt im, nempt im” line. The music to this opening section is more dense than in the rest … their performance on Kremer’s recording. Listening to this modern version, one can hear that the structure of the song …
Karev Yom
… The interview was held at the initiative of the Israeli music connoisseur and collector Dudi Patimer. Speaking live … deep baritone voice, Bikel reprimanded Gazit in highbrow modern Hebrew by saying that “the Hebrew language is still … of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after …

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 … 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 …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… in southwestern Ukraine). This new production of the Jewish Music Research Centre prepared around the centennial of … … Archival recordings … Bukovina … Historical recordings … Modern Yiddish stage … Non-religious Yiddish music … USSR … …