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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… nation-states. From the outset, we note that this is a rare case of bottom-up creativity. A song made its way to … of the literary and scholarly narratives about Hatikvah . Therefore, we rely solely on common knowledge previously … scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… most of the Jewish neighborhood in the old city, including areas of commerce, libraries, schools, as well as over … upscale Electra Palace hotel sits in the heart of the city where another Jewish school, the Alliance Israélite … to the medieval romances noticieros (informative, narrative songs), due to its recounting of historical events. 7 …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis XXII:1–19) is somewhat brief, barely referring to the characters’ feelings and thoughts, … of the Binding of Isaac and was also used for additional songs in Hebrew and Yiddish, the content of which relates to … mila , siman 10; Schleifer, 2014). The piyyut mentioned here, whose subject is the circumcision as commanded by the …
Moshe Attias
… Moroccan musicians in Israel. This short note prepared by JMRC Director, Professor Edwin Seroussi, draws among … would eventually also settle in Israel, in Kiryat Haim, where Mwijo would support him during his final days. Mwijo … Yossef Chetrit from University of Haifa he recorded many songs from these manuscripts that Chetrit transcribed for …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… commentary on the rich content of this poem (in Hebrew) see here . Within his analysis of the musical and textual … a different, new pattern of setting music to piyyutim appeared. This is “a pattern of rhythmic bars and a symmetric … is found in the last of a series of five folios with songs for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, all framed by the seli …
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 … which were considered lost, were retrieved by Karnes (apparently only partially, as will be shown below) and are … contextualizes the collection from diverse perspectives, thereby making this a text of value by itself, regardless …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… project and will be updated as new information is gathered. It is part of the JMRC project of publishing a … of 1946 (see above), was published several times. It appeared in print for the first time in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for …
Karel Berman
… After extensive musical education, Karel Berman started his career as a bass singer of opera in Opava. In March, 1943, Berman was deported to Theresienstadt, where he took part in cultural life as a … for example, he and Rafael Schächter produced the "Four songs to words of Chinese poetry " by Pavel Haas for the …
Léibele Schwartz
… the Golder Era of Yiddish theatre in Buenos Aires. He appeared as actor and singer in the musical A fon vert geboyrn ( … and his second wife went to Johannesburg, South Africa where he performed for three years at the Standton Shul, aka … shows Léibele interspersed anecdotes and jokes between the songs. In the file kept by his daughter Sabrina, there is a …
Joe Elias
… Brooklyn. The youngest of seven children, Joe learned his songs on his mother’s knee, Sarah Elias . As a schoolteacher … in the 1960’s, he would collect songs from the grandparents of his Sephardic students. He went on to collect … 2010. His musical work lives on through his son, Dan. See here performance of "Vate Vate" by The Elias Ladino …