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In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… radicalism in late nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, our Song of the Month is “In Zaltsikn Yam” (In the Salty Sea), an early-twentieth-century Yiddish workers' song [See also Song of the Month for May 2010 ]. The poem was written in …
Ve-Hi She-’Amda – Piyyut from the Passover Haggadah
This piyyut appears in ancient Haggadot and the author is unknown. It addresses how,…
Bella Schaechter-Gottesman
… Ukraine). Her mother sang a wide repertoire of folksongs (and is considered by Bella as a Yiddish folksinger). … and she later began publishing Yiddish poetry. As a songwriter, she has composed Yiddish songs with her own lyrics, which are performed by leading …
Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture
… from synagogue services for settings of Shir hama’alot [The song of ascension, Psalm 126] sung just before the Grace … examples in our possession that are included in this Song of the Month. Since there are discrepancies in these …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… The album includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews used to sing in events … the JMRC and one of the most prominent scholars of the folksong in Ladino worldwide. These CDs summarize the … Library that span for over four decades. Eighty-seven songs are included in the CDs, some of them rare pearls, …
Chasidic in America
… The song ‘Chasidic in America’ was originally sung by cantor … credited as director). Oysher and Weiss also recorded the song in 1938 with Dave Tarras, the legendary klezmer … the music of The Cantor’s Son . This virtuosic, wordless song consists of two distinctive sections. The first is a …
The Aspects of Time and Environment in Jewish Traditional Music,”
… … Jerusalem … israel musicological society … … Piyyutim … Songs … 4 … 1987 … Piyyut … Song … Ashkenaz … Variants … Hanoch Avenary … The Aspects of …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… in the same fashion. [4] The Hillula at Mount Meron and the Songs of Rabbi Shim’on Bar Yohai The Hillula in Meron begins … in honor of Rabbi Shim'on Bar Yohai, as well as other songs according to the tradition of each community. The … Sephardic and Ashkenazi communities. Two of these famous songs are “Bar Yohai nimshahta ashrekha” composed in the …
A gute nakht (LKT)
… Katshke 1966, p. 668 . “First the klezmorim with a special song and melody ‘Have a good night [‘ Hot mir a gute nakht’ …
Zay gezunt (LKT)
… you get the full reference. “We find the melody to this song [‘Zayt gezunterheyt mayne libe eltern’] in the wedding … gezunt (good-night piece). From this we can infer that the song was a parting song of the child from the parents after the wedding. S. …