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‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)
… (like some of the American Jewish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer's characters of which Yentl , memorialized by Barbra … zine. Thanks to Schmekel for their time and cooperation. [1] Kukla, Elliot . ' A Created Being of Its …
Chasidic in America
… sung by cantor Moishe Oysher and his first wife, singer and actress, Florence Weiss. They performed it on the … and began performing at popular music venues or in the opera. This new career path often caused a rift with the … After his immigration to America he began to sing light opera while continuing to perform some cantorial tasks on …
Bessie Schonberg
… young the family moved often as MacGrew pursued a career as opera singer. In 1911 or 1912 however, apparently due to her …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… period were composed long afterwards by artists in exile, operating with fundamentally new conditions in terms of both … illustrious legacy as the grandson of a famous Yiddish folksinger who roamed the streets of Vilna, not to mention his … of the relationship between Jewishness and Russianness operated at the heart of the Society for Jewish Folk Music. …
La Gallarda matadora
… printed and distributed in chapbooks and were sung by male singers. Example 1 - Romance de La Gallarada Matadora sung … Two musicians who fuse these two genres are the Israeli singer Yasmin Levy and the guitarist Baldi Olier. This … Marín, a renowned flamenco dancer, has, for example, cooperated with Mor Karbasi, an Israeli singer who specializes …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… and shouting to passersby to help him. Actor and folk singer Theodore Bikel during a live performance humorously … by Isa Kremer (1887-1956) (musical example 1). A renowned singer, Kremer was born in Belz, Bessarabia, and sang on Italian and Russian opera stages. At the advice of the poet Haim Nahman Bialik, …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… at the Conservatory of Saint Petersburg [and later on an opera singer in that city]. He composed melodies for two songs … and it seems to me that he used to sing at the choir of the opera there. And in that city lived my sister [Olga] who …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… ceremony as part of the repertoire of Yemenite Jewish women singers. In Yemen, the separation of men and women was … [6] Leah Avraham The performance of 'Qad Zawajunī' is by singer, dancer, artist and educator Leah Avraham in a style … attended. The family arrived in Israel in 1949 as part of Operation Magic Carpet. During her professional career, …
Bernardo Feuer
… that Feuer fill in, with the approval of the other singers and especially of Feuer’s father. Feuer continued … included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original language or translated to Yiddish, … 1960 Feuer formed a special chorus of Hazzanim drawn from singers in Buenos Aires and others from the surrounding …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… in each source, as are the texts’ titles, indications for singers and text-underlays. (To avoid confusion, the term … The first phrase (A) lacks an indication of the intended singer, but is understood to be the cantor's part. The third … music, for example, one of the saddest arias in the opera repertoire was composed in the major mode: the lament …