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Moyshelekh Un Shloymelekh (part 1)
… Shloymelekh' is a name referring to two different Yiddish songs, 'Unter Di Grininke Bymelekh,' and 'Unter Di Poylishe Grininke Beymelekh.' Both songs open with almost the same line, containing the words … multiple versions, 'Unter Di Grininke Beymelekh' was a very popular song throughout the Jewish world. It attained the …
Yechidi Laderech Li Etse'a
… line has been sung many times, as it came from the very popular Russian romance, 'Vyhozhu odin ja na dorogu' (Alone … Shira.' This translation was no exception, as many Russian songs were translated into Hebrew. In most cases, the melodies of these songs were altered to suit the rhymes and meters of Hebrew, …
צלילי איוב במערב־התיכון של ארצות הברית: איש רציני יהודי לנוכח עץ החיים הנוצרי
… non-celestial, derives from folk, liturgical, and popular genres. Yet, whether listening to music or producing …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… of liturgical and religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs … framework would demand a piece that is larger than the popular song format of Friedman’s setting of 'Shema’ … – bVII – V. Figure 8. Shema’ Koleinu as an Anglo-American popular song Debbie Friedman’s “Shema’ Koleinu” appeared on …

Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… Society Inc. under the direction of Dr. Michael Naida. His popular compositions, songs, film and video scores, signature tunes, and … 'Tzena Tzena' in the British Army and it was initially popularized by The Weavers with Pete Seeger on banjo, …
Elohim Eshala
… Folkways release by the Israeli singer Geula Gill “Yemenite songs and other Israeli folk songs.” Gill (b. 1932 in Tel … "Ve-ha-Kohen”). The second song is “Ah! Ofra,” a song popularized by Sara Levy Tanai. Shlomo Dahiyani's version … Moshe Wilensky (NSA K-334) is instructive. As a composer of popular music, Wilensky had no pretensions in his …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, 1928. … arrives, we dedicate the Song of the Month to a very popular Eastern European Ashkenazi melody that, in the early … repertoire, songs about Jewish festivals were particularly popular and remained part of the festive repertoire sung …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in … there are many such commonplace songs. Some of them became popular in one social circle or another and later entered … (1931) and the “Songs of Zion” (1942)). It appears in popular collections of Israeli songs produced in America, …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… sacred and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that … only as a matter of citizenship but as a matter of popular or collective consciousness—was still a viable …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jewish culture, with a new national repertoire of Zionist songs, the internationalization of Jewish scholarship, and … the Jewish musical imagination in both its scholarly and popular forms. But Idelsohn the man himself remains an … to HOM IX (1932), he writes “In 1918 I needed a popular tune for a performance of my mixed choir in …