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Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… national reincarnation, sparked both media interest and the popular imagination. … But the community underwent (and … 4). Chapter 6 provides detailed musical analysis of several songs: a solo voice and masinqo performance, a solo voice … University Press. Herman, Marilyn, 2012, Gondar’s Child: Songs, Honor, and Identity among Ethiopian Jews in Israel . …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… chapter about the African-American appropriation of Jewish songs and themes, as though Smith had not been a Jew. If not … In those very early years, composers wrote “ethnic” songs for ethnic stage characters to perform, including … bandleaders, including Benny Goodman, who had the most popular band in America throughout the 1930s (and who also …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… … Back in 2008 we dedicated our Song of the Month to the popular piyyut “Purim, Purim, Purim lanu” (“Purim, Purim, … and their salvation by Esther and Mordecai, stressing the popular joy traditionally expressed on Purim for this … the opening line of one of the most popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, accordionist, …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… old recordings show, among many other matters, that widely popular songs from the turn of the 20th century are absent from late … from the EMI Archive Trust (1907-1912) , is one of the many popular Sephardi songs that have not entered the canon of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … (despite Karnes’s claim that this song is unique). It was popularized during Israel’s 1948 War as “ Hafinjan ” (“The … songs sung by Holocaust survivors. The setting of the popular American melody and Hebrew verse was therefore not a …
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 …
Moshe Attias
… Yossef Chetrit from University of Haifa he recorded many songs from these manuscripts that Chetrit transcribed for … Elmaghribi, who enjoyed both international recognition and popularity among the various communities in Israel, Mwijo … “Hazarti Elaikh” (I Returned to You), or the immensely popular “ Zeh Lo Halom ” (It Is Not a Dream, recorded by …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Studying songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into … of the song and its catchy melody led to its reception and popularity as a “folk” song, at times deprived of any … of Edelstadt’s songs in Eastern Europe, “Der arbeter.” The popularity of “Piramidn” in the Russian Empire and later on …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… dating from 1511 , [11] the story is mentioned within the popular homiletic work Tsene-rene (Elbaum and Turniansky … liturgical function. [12] Yudisher shtam enjoyed immense popularity in Ashkenazi society, as is evidenced by the … of the Binding of Isaac and was also used for additional songs in Hebrew and Yiddish, the content of which relates to …
Bernardo Feuer
… synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original language or translated to Yiddish, workers’ songs, and choral symphonies drawn from popular repertoire. In addition, Feuer composed works …