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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …

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 …
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, …
Morris Rosenfeld
… edition sold out, and the book was soon translated into six languages. Following this success, he left his work as a … and editor of a quarterly journal of literature (printed in Yiddish) entitled ' Jewish Annals '. Rosenfeld was … were adapted into Hebrew and became popular in Israel: The Yiddish poem ' Galut March ' became to ' Po Beeratz Hemdat …
Avraham Soltes
… in 1916, barely after mastering this country and its language. Avraham Soltes was well-designed to nurture … love- songs, Ladino prayer- songs, American folksongs, Yiddish lullabies, and Hebrew melodies; to his creative …