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Bernardo Feuer
… synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original language or translated to Yiddish, workers’ songs, and choral symphonies drawn from … reconstrucción (unpublished) stands out, as does the Yiddish song Zalmele , which tells the story of an anonymous …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… 23259 … Yiddish … Yiddish Films … Jewish music … Yiddish songs … Film music … …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon the … form for an ‘Akedah piyyut was the monorhymed quatrain. In Yiddish Literature Literature composed in Yiddish also … of the Binding of Isaac and was also used for additional songs in Hebrew and Yiddish, the content of which relates to …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Studying songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into … for the Coronavirus to use distance learning!) I found the Yiddish song “Piramidn.” The song, whose first line is “In … Knightsbridge, London, UK I would like to expand on this Yiddish song for Passover beyond Levin’s text, stressing its …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… is found in the last of a series of five folios with songs for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, all framed by the seli … Kulturbesitz, Ms. Or. 1224, fol. 148a Of all these songs for the fast, only “She’eh ne’esar” has continued to … that is found in many Ashkenazi liturgical melodies and Yiddish folksongs. All in all, this oral version vindicates …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… recorded items (each one comprising several units, such as songs and dialogues), which, although already digitized and … Had Gadya Kedusha Four Melodies for Four Questions Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong) Selected Letters from Edith Gerson …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … publications of Jewish music, especially in anthologies of Yiddish songs, the most prominent language of this corpus. … that the absence of a scholar familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs was detrimental to this project. …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… chapter about the African-American appropriation of Jewish songs and themes, as though Smith had not been a Jew. If not … Initially he wished an adaptation of The Dybbuk (a Yiddish play by S. Ansky) to be the vehicle for the first … In those very early years, composers wrote “ethnic” songs for ethnic stage characters to perform, including …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Library in Kiev,” Shofar 10, no. 4 [1992; Special Issue: Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies], pp. 31-48, quote in p. 34 … revolutionary Aleph cataloging system and in the Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew languages, engaged in this project from … s containing the musical and textual transcriptions of the songs would become available in Jerusalem. That promise …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for … music. This mode is common in prayer tunes, in the Yiddish folk song and in the old instrumental repertoire. … to the Eastern European melos of the Jewish prayer, Yiddish folksong and instrumental music, enabled the …