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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… The first work to derive from this trip, currently on display in the library at the New York campus of the Hebrew … recording from Israeli Radio of a small orchestral ensemble playing the song from 1955. [7] While Na’aleh L’artzeinu and … of a medley built on “Hineih Mah Tov.” This melody is also played in Tzfat (Safed) as part of the Abu [Torah Scroll] …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… to Rivesman’s poem is attributed in the score to the playwright, composer and impresario Abraham Goldfaden … first time, with different words of course, in Goldfaden’s play Shulamit (1880) as ‘Flaker, Feirel, Flaker’ (Burn, … folk tune (or even two tunes) that he borrowed for this play, as was the standard practice in the early Yiddish …

Vantsef (LKT)
… “The young people danced until daybreak... The klezmorim played all kinds of melodies for the dances. The dancers …

Vivat
… . (Musical notation included). “At a wedding they used to play in honor of each in-law a ‘vivat’ and in the morning … the remaining in-laws. As soon as they enter, the klezmer play a freylekhs and the badkhn shouts: ‘Vivat!... After the … dance with her. When his oration is done, the klezmorim play a vivat...” [Staro-Konstantin, Ukraine, 1820s-30s]. …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… … Israel … Israel … Background Qad Zawajunī is a form of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… in honor of these ‘pilgrims.’ It consisted of the first play in Hebrew, ‘Zeruvabel’ by [Moshe Leib] Lilienblum, … written in Yiddish and translated into Hebrew. Within the play songs were inserted, and among them ‘ Mishmar ha-Yarden … opera there. And in that city lived my sister [Olga] who played a prominent role in the Hovevei Tziyyon [movement] …
Karev Yom
… made a career out of his cosmopolitanism by assiduously playing the “other” on the stage or on the screen, … a professional singer was marked by his first landmark long-play of songs eventually titled Theodore Bikel Sings Songs … but the credits in the record do not list the name of the player. Another musician, Bill Lee, is listed in the record …

Zemerl (LKT)
… mode] of the Vizhnitser Hasidic tradition....[it was played] at small celebrations like the sholem-zokher , an … Leon Schwartz performs a kale bazetsn melody, and plays and sings the freylakhs (the second, faster part of … home for a “goodbye party” and dancing. The klezmorim would play until late at night. Their melodies were known by the …

Valtzer (LKT)
… “The young people danced until daybreak... The klezmorim played all kinds of melodies for the dances. The dancers …

Vals (LKT)
… pa de span, padekater, quadrille, polka, waltz, etc... played for both Jews and non-Jews.” Feldman 1994, p. 10 . … 1920, p. 25 . “Klezmer bands have also been called upon to play waltzes and mazurkas (both in 3/4 meter)...” Sokolow …