… Department of the epic LACITO (the Laboratory on Languages and Cultures of Oral Tradition at the CNRS, the … Library celebrating his decades-long career. Hearing one Yiddish song after the other, I saw them moved by a music … cries, teary eyes—a subtle connection to a land, the yiddishland , that ended up existing only in their minds. As …

… side with his own arrangement to the melody of the Hebrew/Yiddish song Èli, Èli lama asawathanu ? [sic] (God, why have … established the basis of this piece. On the one hand, the Yiddish title Dwejkuth (Devotion), echoes the Hasidic … Thus, while he remained within the confines of the tonal language, he incorporated harmonic surprises and more …