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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 Rebbe iz … published both in the ninth volume of his Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies (1932), which is dedicated to …
Zemerl (LKT)
… “...a zemerl [pl. zmires ]...is a religious folk song in Hebrew or Aramaic sung on the Sabbath. Bearing a strong … sung to a variety of tunes, as a zemerl (religious folk song).” Schlesinger, Alpert, Rubin 1989 . ( Recording …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… use of maqam . The use of maqam for liturgical poetry and song was based throughout the 17 th century on extensive … were usually adaptations of popular Arabic and Turkish songs. The old style Ottoman-Jewish musical tradition was … the 20 th century in Jerusalem and is a combination of the Hebrew language, which forms the base of prayers and …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… Example 6 Notation and 1st and 7th verses to the wedding song based on "E h ad mi yodea" found in I.L. Cahan's 1957 … JMRC's album Kulmus Hanefesh … Celebrating Passover, the Song of the Month is dedicated to “E h ad mi yodea” the … apparently for the first time, as a manuscript addition (Hebrew and Yiddish) to a copy of the Ashkenazi haggadah …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, 1928. … … As Purim, “the Jewish carnival,” arrives, we dedicate the Song of the Month to a very popular Eastern European … was previously set to a variety of religious poems in Hebrew and Yiddish. It was also featured in many …
La Gallarda matadora
… 2 Petenera … Our Song of the Month is dedicated to Sephardic music and … possible connections. Background Sepharad is the medieval Hebrew name for the Iberian Peninsula. The Sephardic Jews' … their diasporic communities Sephardim sang a repertoire of songs in Ladino, belonging to different genres such as …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… from the ornery antisemite had everything to do with his Hebrew first name. [28] Picture 6: Solomon Rosowsky (far … for Society for Jewish Folk Music, 'Evening of Jewish Folk Song,' Sunday, April 12, 1909, with the participation of Iu. … York: Bloch, 1954), 44; Avraham Soltes, “The Hebrew Folk Song Society of Petersburg: The Historical Development,” in …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… droshe-geshank-oyfshpiln and other entertainment songs...” Fater 1985, pp. 60-61 . “Mitzvah Dance ( Mitsve … . Harkavi is the only one that in his Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary made a distinction between kosher-tants -- …
Tants nign (LKT)
… “A tune used mostly for dancing. It seems that the Hebrew term is actually a translation of the earlier Yiddish … notation and recording references included). “The dance-song is a collective folk-expression which derived from the need to sing for the dance and to dance for the song. The social dances that have no accompanying song …
Badekns (LKT)
… references included). “The [ beroyges ] dance ended, the song was stopped. The groom approached and covered the face … began to sing rhymed couplets in Yiddish, and sometimes in Hebrew as well, accompanied by the fiddlers...” [Wegrow, …