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Karev Yom
… justification, his cosmopolitan persona or his career as an American theatre and movie actor, entertainer, and folk song … big hit for us. He was a working actor just starting out in America and on Broadway, but he was the pivot point for … there was a demand for Israeli “products” in North American concentrations of Jews and Bikel was the right …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… recordings throughout the European, Middle Eastern and American Jewish diasporas, was a crucial component in the … Thus for instance on the website of the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music we read that: “Leon Igly, a musician … I traced back its age as demonstrably earlier that 1750, [American music critic] Mr. H.E. Krehbiel [1854-1923] rebuked …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Purim, Brothers’) is one of the most familiar songs in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many American Jewish songsters at least since Samuel E. … reprinted from Goldfarb’s in several widely disseminated American Hebrew-Yiddish songsters published by Harry …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… a still largely unexplored treasure of Jewish Musical Americana, includes a magnificent recording of ‘Haint Iz … Hag Purim’ in Hebrew and Yiddish, a common practice in American Jewish communities at the time. All in all, this …
David Berger
… of 2014 and and is a member of the Executive Board of the American Conference of Cantors. Before that, he served as …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in America – A. W. Binder (1895-1966) notated and arranged a … provides a fascinating window into the intersections of American, Palestinian and European Zionism, mid-century … remembered for his contributions to the liturgical music of American Reform Judaism and his work on Biblical …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… from online resources associated with the “History of the American Cantorate” project (Slobin 1984–86). Spiro is … with him, which is also part of the “History of the American Cantorate” project, can be found here: … can be found in the database of recordings on the American Cantorate website (Slobin 1984–86). I tabulated all …
Assaf Shelleg
… art music was written by or about Jews, in Europe, North America, British Palestine, and Israel. Shelleg’s …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Bookland . Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1920, pp. 97-101. Includes the translation of the …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… the Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played … liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional career began in the 1960s, … ii – bVII – V. Figure 8. Shema’ Koleinu as an Anglo-American popular song Debbie Friedman’s “Shema’ Koleinu” …