Year
2004
The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim
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Mazor, Yaakov, editor. The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim, Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel vol. 17, 1st edition. The Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem AMTI 0402, 2004, 2 compact discs.
Contains niggunim of various genres, and from various Hasidic dynasties, performed either in solo or group singing (choir or congregation), occasionally with instrumental accompaniment. The niggunim are taken from a variety of calendar and life-cycle events: Shabbat, Festivals, Zemirot, Tish, Wedding, Dance, Devequt, Marches, Waltzes, etc.
Most of the tracks were recorded in Jerusalem and Benei Berak, others in Kefar Habbad, Rehovot, and one in the US.
All niggunim have been selected from recordings, made since 1961, which are preserved in the collection of the National Sound Archive (NSA) of the Jewish National and Universitary Library, Jerusalem.
Alongside some Pan-Hasidic niggunim, this compilation represents the following Hasidic communities: Lubavich, Vizhnitz, Karlin (main part of the corpus); Bobov, Boyan, Slonim, Spinka, Sanz, Kretshniff, Toledot Aharon (fair number of recordings); Amshinov, Biale, Gur, Wurke, Lelov, Modzhitz, Porisov, Shomerei Emunim and others (few examples).
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Sound Examples
By Shalom Kharitonov
Disk 1
Community singing, Tish for the 15th of Shevat, "Tiferet Yisrael" Yeshiva
Avraham Weingarten
Mendel Brichto
Vizhnitz Choir, wedding banquet of the Vizhnitz Rebbe's granddaughter
Vizhnitz Choir, wedding banquet of the Vizhnitz Rebbe's granddaughter
Alexander Uri
Community singing, wedding of Eliezer Lipa, son of the Rebbe of Spinka
Shelomo Kahana and guests, wedding of Eliezer Lipa, son of the Rebbe of Spinka
Group of Hasidim at a hitva'adut, Kefar Habbad
Samuel Zalmanoff
Avraham Weingarten
Mendel Brichto
Habbad Youth Choir, Dedication of the Habbad Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem
Alexander Uri and his sons Yaakov and YeHezkel
David Mastboim
Community singing, Tiferet Yisra'e!' Yeshiva
The badkhn Yosef Greenwald ("Yosel Ramler") and guests
David Mastboim
Daniel Bergstein, Yehoshua Dov Rubinstein, singers; Avraham Eckstein, singer and drummer
David Mastboim
