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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 … …
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
… song, reflecting once again the intricate ways in which Jewish repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the modern period. One of the recordings of this song that we … section of the Jacob Michael Collection of Jewish Music at the National Sound Archives of the Israel National …
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
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … in both sections as one of the main sources for the modern musicological use of the term. Dalia Cohen (2006, …
Assaf Shelleg
… Musicologist and pianist Assaf Shelleg is senior lecturer of … Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at … (Oxford University Press, 2014) studies the emergence of modern Jewish art music in Central and Western Europe in the …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … Of course his terminology is a bit uncomfortable to post-modern ears. Categories of authentic and ethnic musical …