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Debka (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT compiles a wide array of source materials that shed … which the form and the steps (if not the music) entered the Israeli secular repertoire in the same way it entered the …
Bulgar (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT compiles a wide array of source materials that shed … in Bessarabia. Its best known step is similar to the Israeli dance hora.” Alpert 1996b, p. 58 . ( …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the … Right to Left? Avraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Invention of Israeli Music,” Jewish Quarterly Review 100:3 (Summer 2010), …
Hora (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT compiles a wide array of source materials that shed … and the dance movements are distinct both from the lively Israeli dance in duple meter bearing the same name, and from …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… 716 … Over the generations Hanukkah has generated a substantial … an almost universal status, even among non-Jews. At the same time, the need of each generation to express itself … Few , which begins with Cyrus' decree enabling the exiled Israelites to be able to return to Cana'an and work the …
Ve-Hi She-’Amda – Piyyut from the Passover Haggadah
… This piyyut appears in ancient Haggadot and the author is unknown. It addresses how, throughout history, … seeking to destroy Israel, but God rescues Israel from their clutches. The piyyut appears in the Haggadah … for the piyut, to listen click here . In 2011, the Israeli guitarist Eliyahu Meir Dali released a heavy rock …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… 720 … In honor of May Day and the tradition of Jewish political radicalism in late nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, our Song of the Month is “In Zaltsikn Yam” (In the Salty Sea), an … beginning of the twenty-first century. Oy Division is an Israeli klezmer band who have been active since 2006 …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… On the eve of Passover, our Song of the Month for April 2014 is dedicated to H ad Gadya … sung at the Passover seder in some of its contemporary Israeli versions. Written in Aramaic, H ad Gadya appears at …
Had Gadya
… Written in Aramaic, H ad Gadya appears at the very end of the Passover Haggadah. Like E h ad Mi Yodeah, also found at … exemplify the modern fate of the song with in contemporary Israeli musical repertoire. H ad Gadya was incorporated to …
Shir HaKavod
… The Piyyut 'Anim Zemirot,' also known as 'Shir HaKavod' (Song of Glory), usually appears in the Ashkenazi Siddur at the end of the morning Shabbath prayers, after the Mussaf service. In some Israeli synagogues the prayer is moved to an earlier part of …