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Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… and Shavuot holidays, which is derived from a group of songs often referred to as the ‘cycle of Moses’ due to their … s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem (Songs of Israel in the Land of the Orient; SHIBA ), … is derived from a collection of Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish songs found in a manuscript dated 1702 by Moshe Bekhar …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that … greeted by the musicians present as the “thief of songs”, whence he challenged them to compare their melodies … Jewish religious hymns sung to the melodies of more recent songs by Farid al-Atrash or Umm Kulthum, most of which were …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… is found in the last of a series of five folios with songs for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, all framed by the seli … Kulturbesitz, Ms. Or. 1224, fol. 148a Of all these songs for the fast, only “She’eh ne’esar” has continued to … “She’eh ne’esar” appears twice. It is included among the songs for another fast day, the Tenth of Tevet, which marks …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… recorded items (each one comprising several units, such as songs and dialogues), which, although already digitized and …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies …
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 … collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten source from … (1874–1954), a devoted collector and scholar of folk songs. In addition to the Latvian folk songs Melngailis …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… show, among many other matters, that widely popular songs from the turn of the 20th century are absent from late … of the JMRC, Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs from the EMI Archive Trust (1907-1912) , is one of the many popular Sephardi songs that have not entered the canon of the modern …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Berlin’s death, and 70 years since his last significant songs were written. I (like Kaplan and Bergreen) am 70 years old and grew up with Berlin’s songs on the radio. But a little research on my own part, … borderline bawdy”, are frankly no more so than in dozens of songs by Berlin’s contemporaries, and are in fact notable …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… the opening line of one of the most popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, accordionist, … most remarkable folk performers of traditional Sephardic songs within the American scene. Eventually she became an … Yugoslavia. She not only performed traditional Sephardic songs but also penned new songs, some of which became widely …
Moshe Cordova
… piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of Israel in the East,” together with Binyamin Bekhar … Leo Levi interviewed Cordova in Tel Aviv. Three songs are included in Levi’s precious recording. One of them …