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Hebraeisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz, 09[G]: Der Volksgesang der osteuropaeischen Juden

… This volume contains Jewish folk songs in the Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian and Ukranian languages. Each song is printed with text-underlay of the …

Bibliography of Jewish Music

… items listed including publications in Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish and European languages. Includes citations for musical scores as well. …

Contemporary American Jewish Music

… Music, Department of Music, SOAS, University of London Yiddish song in 21st century America At the beginning of the … Jews and non-Jews alike, the idea of a thriving secular Yiddish song culture seems absurd. Most scholarly … the Shoah; popular opinion has marked Yiddish as a dying language, if not already dead. Paradoxically, however, …

Society for Jewish Folk Music

… “How do you know how many men live in a house?” asked Yiddish author Y.L. Peretz. “Count the fiddles hanging on … song, a character that typifies Jewish Klezmer music. The Yiddish author Shalom Aleichem vividly describes this … Songs are almost always in Yiddish, which was the spoken language of Russian Jewry. Most of the composers were also …

Hora

… (tunes). These were used mostly as marching tunes (in Yiddish: 'Gas Niggunim'), and less for dance. 1 The Israeli … no.2 ). The Hora dance in Israel In the renewing Hebrew language, the term became a synonym to an Israeli circle …

Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)

… The Yiddish language, which probably began to develop around the tenth century A.D. in south Germany, was the main spoken language and language of oral creation of the Ashkenazi Jews … periods: the vocabulary, syntax, morphology, and prosody of Yiddish combine German and Hebrew components, and in Eastern …

Singing in the Dark

… deal with the Holocaust and starts cantor and star of the Yiddish cinema Moyshe Oysher in his only English language role. It is about a cantor who is a holocaust …

Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German

… a pioneer Zionist journal edited by the Zionist leader and Yiddishist Nathan Birnbaum. Titled ‘Sehnsucht,’ the poem is … In dieses liebes, trautes Vaterland! Hebrew and Yiddish translations Dort wo die Zeder was soon translated … of songs that were written and performed in the Hebrew language from the beginning of the Zionist movement up to …

Yiddish – The Mame Loshn (Yiddish - the Mother Tongue)

… Stone and Pierre Sauvage Produced by Pierre Sauvage Yiddish used to be a language that was spoken by over ten million Jews around the … decreased. This emmy-award winning film interviews American Yiddish speakers including actors and comedians, such as …

Yiddish Theater: A Love Story

… is of Zypora Spaisman, who dedicated her life to keeping Yiddish theater and culture alive into the 21st century and … eight days of her production of Peretz Hirschbein's 1916 Yiddish play, Grine Felder (Green Fields). These eight days … provide a unique look at a genuine Yiddish play, from the language, to the costumes, to the set designs, and the …

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