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Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… European landscape: Hasidic tish-nigunim. Nigunim (Yiddish nign , from the Hebrew niggun —melody) are chants, … areas were notated and audio-recorded. [1] Tish-nigunim (Yiddish: table-melodies) comprise one of the most … Their melodies were simple and relatively short, with the lyrics the core element dictating the musical choices. …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Berlin where she assisted A[braham] Z[evi] transcribing his lyrics and in his work. She had a beautiful Hebrew … attended as there were by that time several Hebrew and Yiddish plays on the subject. One sound possibility is the … the Ashkenazi community run by the Haredi community where Yiddish was spoken. See, Efraim Cohen Reiss, Mizikhronot Ish …
“Die alte Kasche” (Volkslied) – The Old Question (Folksong)
… Die alte Kasche stands out in the Yiddish folksong corpus for its simplest and yet philosophical lyrics. The endless cycle of questioning is answered by the … In the case of Stutchewsky, the choice of this austere Yiddish song fits the overall minimalist aesthetics of this …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… song (Seroussi 2010). Different tunes, variations of the lyrics, arrangements and performance-practices reshaped its … pair of pieces recalling the shtetl soundscape of the Yiddish song and the Hassidic dance nigun in A freygish ( …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… publications of Jewish music, especially in anthologies of Yiddish songs, the most prominent language of this corpus. … that the absence of a scholar familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs was detrimental to this project. … . . . tell different stories” (p. xix). Yet as far as song lyrics about Jewish-Latvian encounters are concerned, I …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… for the Coronavirus to use distance learning!) I found the Yiddish song “Piramidn.” The song, whose first line is “In … Knightsbridge, London, UK I would like to expand on this Yiddish song for Passover beyond Levin’s text, stressing its … it has not been located, thus far, independent of the lyrics of “Piramidn” in any folk tune collection. The agency …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… characteristic of the Andalusian Sephardic milieu. The lyrics cover an apparently earthly topic, but do so with … it does not appear in the earliest manuscript version. The lyrics of Kikhlot yeini tell a story, as follows: a friend … Most Popular Songs of Famous Poets in Hebrew, English and Yiddish ,8 th enlarged edition, Philadelphia,1909, pp. …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… its melody, one which I had learned in connection with the Yiddish song “Shnirele Perele.” In my initial exploration, I was sure that I had found a classic example of an old Yiddish melody that was reclaimed by Hebrewists in Europe or … can all be located in traditional liturgical poems and the lyrics, like many of the songs in Binder’s book, would sound …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… This is an example of the presence of the Purim song in the Yiddish song revival in Germany. … Haynt Iz Purim, Brider … is one of the most familiar songs in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many … for money at the end of a traditional Purimshpil with lyrics such as ‘Haynt iz purim, morgn iz oys, git undz a por …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… by then [1888?] as Carul cu Boi (Wagon and Oxen)” and “the lyrics [of Carul cu Boi ] had been applied at some point [to … Hebrew, ‘Zeruvabel’ by [Moshe Leib] Lilienblum, written in Yiddish and translated into Hebrew. Within the play songs … not the “Palestinian” one and with a transliteration in Yiddish pronunciation) as well as a Yiddish parody (no. 200 …