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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… of its reception and musical performances, changes and adaptations. The printed version of 1886 is apparently not … melody of Hatikvah , i.e. the attribution of the melodic adaptation to Samuel Cohen following his testimony, was then … our song, the melody is credited not to Samuel Cohen’s adaptation but as a composition by Leon Igly. Consistently …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… is an original musical composition by Goldfaden or just an adaptation of a Yiddish folk tune (or even two tunes) that … its second section is in 3/4 (tenuously kept in Rivesman’s adaptation as triplets in a 2/4 meter). But Kisselgof’s …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… been covered by numerous bands and the melody has found new adaptations into synagogue liturgy. [10] Though one might …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… role in pre-modern times (Katz 2008). A Yiddish prose adaptation of the story appears in a manuscript dating from …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… and composer Česlovas Sasnauskas. The Hebrew text is a free adaptation from the Lithuanian. The melodies are almost …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… reconfigured his final masterpiece. Initially he wished an adaptation of The Dybbuk (a Yiddish play by S. Ansky) to be …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… (the priests— qessotch in Amharic, qessim in the Hebrew adaptation), in effect dismantling the qessim ’s authority. …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… while simultaneously undergoing musical and textual adaptations catering to different ethnic groups, religions, …
Max Gabel
… with having written 114 plays, mostly melodramas and adaptations of Broadway successes. His first play was The …
Léibele Schwartz
… musical A fon vert geboyrn ( A flag is born ), an Yiddish adaptation of Ben Hecht’s Zionist fundraiser pageant that …