(250 results found)
Leo Wiener
… discovery of America Vols. I-III (1922). Weiner translated Yiddish songs and poems. The poet he valued most was … ' in Wikipedia. More sources: Leo Wiener, History of Yiddish literature in the nineteenth century . London: John …
Mazurka (LKT)
… dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise , quadrille , waltz , … military marches (2/4 and 6/8), and popular pieces from the Yiddish theatre, often in fox-trot, waltz, tango, and even …
Polka
… dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise, quadrille, waltz, … military marches (2/4 and 6/8), and popular pieces from the Yiddish theatre, often in fox-trot, waltz, tango, and even …
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 … dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise, quadrille, waltz, …
Sher
… references, the šer is also mentioned very rarely in folk songs. These folk songs are all from the Ukraine (cf. Cahan … 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 …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, 1928. … 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 …
Tish-nign (LKT)
… money: a vulekhl or a doina , some zmires (religious folk songs), kind of lik Black spirituals, and Yiddish folk songs or theater songs.” Alpert 1996a, p. 16. “These …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… for the first time, as a manuscript addition (Hebrew and Yiddish) to a copy of the Ashkenazi haggadah printed in … (with a few Aramaic words) along with a translation into Yiddish. One defining characteristic of the Yiddish … similar serial patterns of question and answer counting songs in other traditions, such as Muslim, Latin, German, …
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 … melody. 'A Gneyve' is part of a large repertoire of Yiddish songs addressing the hardships of a poverty ridden …
Karev Yom
… commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War II. … to Bikel’s recording of ‘Karev yom,’ one of the many Hebrew songs that Bikel performed, recorded and was instrumental in … and folk song revivalist. Music reviewers stresses his Yiddish or international repertoire. Bikel made a career out …