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Menashe Ravina
Menashe Ravina was born in Pereyaslav, now part of Ukraine, to Elazar, a cantor and…
Nissan Cohen-Melamed
Nissan Cohen Melamed was born in Shiraz, Persia, in 1906. His parents, who promised…
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… the stages of the life cycle, such as circumcisions and weddings. He was not the most outstanding in terms of …
“Unter dem kinds Wiegele” – Beneath the Baby’s Cradle
Stutschewsky described the Yiddish lullaby as a genre as follows:
Here lies the…
“Die alte Kasche” (Volkslied) – The Old Question (Folksong)
Die alte Kasche stands out in the Yiddish folksong corpus for its simplest and yet…
19. Josepf the Righteous (Yossef HaTzaddiq)
… related and sometimes separate songs about Joseph, sung for weddings and other good occasions. The first exclaims at how …
Sara Levi-Tanai
Sara Levi-Tanai was an Israeli choreographer, playwright, and lyricist renowned for her…
