(42 results found)
LeBelibo Agas VeGam Tapuach
… This musical television special, hosted by Ehud Manor and conducted and arranged by Matti Caspi, features prominent Israeli singers performing popular Israeli songs that were inspired and taken …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… the song Hatikvah became the emblematic lyrical signifier of Zionism, other contemporary songs of Hatikvah contented for that spot in the late nineteenth and early twentieth …
Kale bazetsen (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT compiles a wide array of source materials that shed light on the …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukah Songs
… Over the generations Hanukah has generated a substantial repertoire of songs, some of which have attained an almost universal status, even among …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of factual and fictional information that, in …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… 1. Bavaria/Frankfurt-Main 2. Venizia/Gorizia 3. Province Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi 3 Ashkenazi/Sephardi 4 Baer 1 Baer 2 …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… “From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a joint venture of the …
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 collection …
Abraham Salman
… Abraham Salman (born Shaharabani) was a qanun virtuoso, one of the finest players of this instrument in the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a …