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Kale bazetsen (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT compiles a wide array of source materials that shed … mode. Most kale bazetsn are follwed by freylekhs.” Schlesinger, Alpert and Rubin 1989 . ( Recording references …
Honga (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT compiles a wide array of source materials that shed … time characterized by 16th-note runs and arpeggios.” Schlesinger, Alpert and Rubin 1989 . See Ange . … Honga (LKT) …
Ange (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT compiles a wide array of source materials that shed … time characterized by 16th-note runs and arpeggios.” Schlesinger, Alpert and Rubin 1989 . ( Recording references …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… History of the Hillula of Rabbi Shim’on Bar Yohai in Mount Meron The celebrations on the eighteenth of Iyar—Lag Ba’Omer—among … syllabic setting of the text. In the past there were some singers who had the 'Hazakah' (privilege) of singing …
Chasidic in America
… The song ‘Chasidic in America’ was originally sung by cantor Moishe Oysher and his first wife, singer and actress, Florence Weiss. They performed it on the theater stage, in concerts in North …
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 of the life cycle in their communities in Turkey, the Balkans … them in different versions, all performed by the best folksingers, mostly women, from the Sephardic communities of …
Bella Schaechter-Gottesman
… to Cernauti, Romania (today Chernivtsi, Ukraine). Her mother sang a wide repertoire of folksongs (and is considered by Bella as a Yiddish folksinger). Schaechter-Gottesman spent World War II in the Cernauti Ghetto with her husband Jonas Gottesman. After …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… 720 … In honor of May Day and the tradition of Jewish political radicalism in late nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, our Song of the Month is “In Zaltsikn Yam” (In the Salty Sea), an … Mlotek, arranged by Vladimir Heifetz, and was performed by singers Sidor Belarsky and Masha Benya [Recording …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… On the eve of Passover, our Song of the Month for April 2014 is dedicated to H ad Gadya … story. It begins with a kid bought by the “father” (of the singer-subject of the song), which in the next verse is …
Had Gadya
… Written in Aramaic, H ad Gadya appears at the very end of the Passover Haggadah. Like E h ad Mi Yodeah, also found at … story. It begins with a kid bought by the “father” (of the singer-subject of the song), which in the next verse is …