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A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… This song of the month is a humorous Yiddish song about a robbery. It is also known as “Bay Mein … being the names of a second version with slightly different lyrics and a completely different melody. 'A Gneyve' is part of a large repertoire of Yiddish songs addressing the hardships of a poverty ridden …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… 1962, p. 168, no. 114. Example 6 “Sabbathlichter” (lyrics: S. Rosenblum, music (!): J. Engel), Juedische … set to a variety of religious poems in Hebrew and Yiddish. It was also featured in many publications of Jewish … no. 5) which in turn derives from a collection of songs in Yiddish edited by Joel Engel titled 50 Jüdische …
Sher
… We know of cases in which Ukrainian peasants took up Yiddish frejlaxs and šers . The šer is also widespread in … by Beregovski. There is no mention of the sher in Yiddish literature even though, as he pointed out, this … of the old Polish national dances, the Polonaise. As far as lyrics go, they are part of a longer song actually sung by …
Polonaise
… 1996a, pp. 16-17 . “It can also happen that a dance has a Yiddish name and the melody for the dance is borrowed from … of the old Polish national dances, the Polonaise. As far as lyrics go, they are part of a longer song actually sung by …
Avraham Reyzen
… Avraham Reyzen was a Yiddish writer, poet and editor, and the elder brother of the Yiddishist Zalman Reyzn . Full biography: Nathan Cohen, ' … Library of Israel website. A list of songs he wrote their lyrics in Zemereshet . … Yiddish writer, Poet & Editor … 0 … …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… from Marjorie's mother, Aliza Greenblatt, a well-respected Yiddish poet and songwriter in her own right. It was through … themes that arise in most of Guthrie's Hanukkah songs and a Yiddish Hanukkah poem written by Greenblatt that was … sung on the recording but rather appears in his published lyrics). Musically, there is not much that differentiates …
Bella Schaechter-Gottesman
… repertoire of folksongs (and is considered by Bella as a Yiddish folksinger). Schaechter-Gottesman spent World War II … various works for children, and she later began publishing Yiddish poetry. As a songwriter, she has composed Yiddish songs with her own lyrics, which are performed by leading Yiddish singers, one …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… this manuscript version the song appears in Aramaic with a Yiddish-German translation (in Hebrew characters). This Yiddish-German version was studied in detailed by Chone … singer and song-writer Angelo Branduardi in 1976. The lyrics of Alla fiera dell’est were written by Branduardi's …
Israeli folksongs
… Shoshana Damari ; and poets whose words were used for the lyrics of the songs, such as, Natan Alterman, Ya'akov Orland … from other traditions, such as Russian, Hassidic, Yiddish, Arabic, and Greek. In the media, these songs are …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… The Yiddish language, which probably began to develop around the … periods: the vocabulary, syntax, morphology, and prosody of Yiddish combine German and Hebrew components, and in Eastern … as an element that organizes the deliverance of the lyrics and designs the boundaries of the …