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Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… In the last Song of the Month we introduced the song for Purim … her unique, wide-ranging style, is in fact a suite of Purim songs. It opens with ‘Haint Iz Purim, Brider,’ which … today one of the boroughs of the town of Dęblin in Poland). The second song of the suite (starting at 5:35) is no …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… to a barrage of factual and fictional information that, in the Internet Age, circulates virally in diverse variants, … made in Iaşi (Rumania) in 1877 or in Zloczow (Galicia in Poland, today Zolochev in Ukraine) in 1878 (scholars are … scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a …
Karev Yom
… I am still living the life of those times… Theodore Bikel On October 2, … commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War II. … career as a professional singer was marked by his first landmark long-play of songs eventually titled Theodore Bikel …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… This song of the month is a humorous Yiddish song about a robbery. It is … melody. 'A Gneyve' is part of a large repertoire of Yiddish songs addressing the hardships of a poverty ridden life that … Shaul and Pesach Marek. 1991. Yidishe folkslider in Rusland . Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press. Idelsohn, …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… This article shows the crystallization of the prayer and singing style known as … of the Jewish communities exiled from Spain to the lands of Islam are found in the distant past. The singing of … were usually adaptations of popular Arabic and Turkish songs. The old style Ottoman-Jewish musical tradition was …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… 1911.pdf Example 6 Notation and 1st and 7th verses to the wedding song based on "E h ad mi yodea" found in I.L. … similar serial patterns of question and answer counting songs in other traditions, such as Muslim, Latin, German, … Ginsburg, Shaul and Pesach Marek. Yidishe folkslider in Rusland. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press 1991. Kotylansky, …

Sher
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles … references, the šer is also mentioned very rarely in folk songs. These folk songs are all from the Ukraine (cf. Cahan … the šer was widespread in Belorussia, Lithuania, and Poland. Even if we do not find this dance in other regions and …
La Gallarda matadora
… 2 Petenera … Our Song of the Month is dedicated to Sephardic music and flamenco, two … their diasporic communities Sephardim sang a repertoire of songs in Ladino, belonging to different genres such as … caballero bien la guía Poso colchones de lana, sabanas de Holanda fina Y en mitad de los colchones, un puñal de oro …
Sol Zim
… Sol Zim is the descendant of five generations of cantors. Zim's father, … served as cantor of the Hochschule Synagogue in Łomazy, Poland, and Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh in Portland, Maine. … See also Sol Zim at Wikpedia. See a selection of Sol Zim songs in Youtube . Sim Shalom / Sol Zim: … American …

Volekh (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles … . (Musical notation included). “Some southern hassidic songs show the influence of the Romanians; these songs are … the other ‘moralishe’ nigunim ... [America is] a strange land with strange weddings. Everything is hit up and rattled …