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Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… melody to the same text is performed by Avraham Kanai, a Jewish Karaite from Kazakhstan. The third melody originated … are principles that have been anchored in Karaite culture for generations, and remain to this day. Today, the … as well as rhyme schemes that are characteristic of Russian and Polish songs. It is difficult to ascertain the …
Image Before My Eyes
… by Joshua Waletzky This film discusses the history and culture of Polish Jews before the holocaust. It tells of the … war as well as a song about the prison camp Jablonna where Jewish Polish soldiers who were accused of treason on the Russian front were sent. … 9 … YIVO Institute for Jewish …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… In honor of May Day and the tradition of Jewish political radicalism in late nineteenth-century … Lita un Poilin, der yiddisher arbeter Bund,” (long live the Russian, Lithuanian, and Polish Jewish labor Bund). This … 2006. “Introduction: An-sky and the Guises of Modern Jewish Culture.” In The Worlds of S.An-sky: A Russian Jewish …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a … Conservatory? Because it is the only school in the Russian Empire with a quota for non-Jewish students.” [2] … creative tension at the root of modern Russian-Jewish culture as a whole: the conflict between Russian imperial …
Leo Wiener
… Leo Wiener was born in Bialystok, Russian Empire in 1862. He was an American historian, … linguist, author and translator. Wiener lectured on Slavic cultures at Harvard University and became the first American … Intellectual Assimilation. Yale University Press, 1991. … Russian- American historian, linguist, author and translator …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish traditions. “E h ad mi yodea” is a cumulative song. … parody, H assidic, and satirical versions in Yiddish and in Russian appeared in the Eastern European communities. The … differentiate their song from the ones from the surrounding cultures because the number thirteen is considered to be an …
Vals (LKT)
… Bulgar, Pas d’Espagne , Vingerka , Waltz , forms of popular Russian, Polish, and Rumanian dances.” EncyJud 1971, p. 1266 … waltz meter, usually joyful. Waltzes were adopted from non-Jewish cultures by the Hasidic dynasties in Poland and Central …
Karev Yom
… of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after … rather than from the emerging triumphalist Israeli Hebrew culture. The song belongs to the Ashkenazi repertoire for … and yet restrained intensity, recalling the performances of Russian folksongs. Indeed the musician Aharon Shefi vividly …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Studying Hatikvah shows how a distinct Zionist music culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its … non-Jewish nations, Poland, Germany as well as the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires. The text of Imber’s …
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 … a researcher of the JMRC specializing on Yiddish song and culture in Eastern Europe prepared a detailed scholarly … and translation of all the texts into English, Hebrew and Russian as well as biographical information about the poets. …