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Aharon Amram
… seven children, also took care of orphans, who were transferred to Sana'a, out of the fear that they would be converted … began performing at weddings in his town, Rosh Ha'ain, and across Israel, in places where there were Yemenite … recorded dozens of songs which became hits and are considered today to be authentic sources of Jewish Yemenite singing …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… During that period, other Karaite communities were founded across Palestine—in Ramleh and Tiberius—as well as in Egypt … between Europe and the Near East. During the next few hundred years, additional Karaite communities were formed in … in Kushta (Istanbul); the 14-16 th centuries are considered to be the 'golden era' of the Karaite community. Later …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… at war with Spain, and therefore, the Iberian Jews preferred to call themselves the 'Portuguese community' rather … time. Architects Elias Bouwman and Daniël Stalpaert were hired to build it. Construction began in 1671, and should have … notation occurred in a number of Sephardic communities across the crumbling Ottoman Empire, where the Jews felt the …
Had Gadya
… it to God, and the other characters to nations who conquered Israel, ending with God coming and liberating the Jewish … employed by Jews (such as American English) and acquired different melodies throughout the Jewish diaspora … various languages and new music settings. Recently we came across a new Israeli rock-blues version, created in kibbutz …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… it to God, and the other characters to nations who conquered Israel, ending with God coming and liberating the Jewish … employed by Jews (such as American English) and acquired different melodies throughout the Jewish diaspora (see: … various languages and new music settings. Recently we came across a new Israeli rock-blues version, created in kibbutz …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… Yam” consists of ten stanzas each containing four metered lines. The rhyme scheme is simple with the first and … than immigrate to Palestine. This concept was later referred to as Doikeit , “hereness” in Yiddish. In the following … As tens of thousands will head to the streets today across the globe in support of workers' struggles, the …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukah Songs
… contemporary literary and musical taste has engendered new songs. These new songs about Hanukah represent the … new generations of musicians continue to adapt and be inspired by his work. Within his vast oeuvre there are a handful … 1945 until 1953. In 1942 the couple moved to Coney Island, across the street from Marjorie's mother, Aliza Greenblatt, a …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… of religious poems in Hebrew and Yiddish. It was also featured in many publications of Jewish folk songs in the early … zemer “Menu h a vesim h a.” In this last setting it appeared in the German-Jewish journal Ost und West in 1910 ( … oral tradition of Sabbath table songs ( zemirot shabbat ) across the Eastern European Jewish diaspora. It was sung by …
Sirba
… of northeast Romania and southern Ukraine, and were favored by Jewish musicians from an even wider area. In much of … The sirba is based on a six-beat measure, consisting of cross to the right kick, kick to the right, kick to the … dance pattern was alien to Ashkenazic dance, which preferred symmetrical patterns....the [was also] rhythmically …
Karev Yom
… to make an emotional comeback to Israel, in order to be honored by the Friends of the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv and to reencounter local artists who fondly remembered him from the early 1940s. The “Israeli” Theodore Bikel … uniform and pert hat…her sun-bronzed legs marching happily across a field, with a hoe on her shoulder. Elektra received …