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Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… (‘Today is Purim, Brothers’) is one of the most familiar songs in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many American Jewish songsters at least since Samuel E. Goldfarb’s Hamenagen [1] …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… In the last Song of the Month we introduced the song for Purim ‘Haint Iz Purim, Brider’ (Today is Purim, … her unique, wide-ranging style, is in fact a suite of Purim songs. It opens with ‘Haint Iz Purim, Brider,’ which …
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 America – A. W. Binder (1895-1966) …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… read on Purim; and (6) one for the festive megillot —Song of Songs, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes—read on Passover, Shavuot, and …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an important role in … of liturgical and religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… texts grew exponentially through time (see for example our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… during the Sabbath. Therefore, a prominent motif in these songs is the figure of Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu), whose … version (which means primarily Baghdadi) appears among songs for the Sabbath, the Sephardic version is included in …
Arba Otiyot
… and the members of the rabbinical dynasty he founded. The songs have been codified in a compendium titled Yagel Yaacov … Disk … Contemporary Jewish Music … Sacred Hebrew Songs from the Saharan Maghreb … Piyyutim … 5 … 2017 … …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Berry Sacharov - 2012 … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original performance context or with their melodies of old. The Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in Jewish …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… Fire of Saloniki), also known as La cantiga del fuego (The Song of the Fire) and, after its opening line, Día de … Great Fire of 1917 in Saloniki. It is fair to note that the song “El Incendio de Saloniki” also serves a similar … to the medieval romances noticieros (informative, narrative songs), due to its recounting of historical events. 7 …