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Had Gadya
… non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting with Leopold Zunz. Fascinated by its unusual content, … the modern fate of the song with in contemporary Israeli musical repertoire. H ad Gadya was incorporated to the … as well as modern languages employed by Jews (such as American English) and acquired different melodies throughout …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting with Leopold Zunz. Fascinated by its unusual content, … the modern fate of the song with in contemporary Israeli musical repertoire. H ad Gadya was incorporated to the … as well as modern languages employed by Jews (such as American English) and acquired different melodies throughout …
Chasidic in America
… Son (Dem Khazns Zundyl) . O ne of the most successful American Yiddish films, The Cantor's Son was directed by … (who stepped down before the film was completed due to heart failure) and Ilya Motyleff (who completed the film and … Olshanetsky , the composer who is credited with the music of The Cantor’s Son . This virtuosic, wordless song …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT … and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … . ( Musical notation included). “In the repertoire of the American klezmer, appears a parallel genre called Bulgare or …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukah Songs
… time, the need of each generation to express itself in its particular contemporary literary and musical taste has engendered new songs. These new songs … against tyranny in its many forms. His influence on American music is incalculable, as new generations of …
Hora (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT … and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … [crooked dance, cf. Bulg. krivo horo ] and other terms. American-Jewish musicians often refer to it as ‘slow hora.’ …
Bessie Schonberg
… Germany in December 1906, the youngest of three girls. Her American born mother, Rose MacGrew married Alexander … Schönberg, then an engineering student, while studying music in Germany. When Bessie Schönberg was very young the … mother. She moved to Dresden with the three girls at the start of World War I. At age seventeen, Schönberg moved to …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a short … historical reasons for this striking trend. [4] But in this article I want to discuss not its actual causes but instead … The St. Petersburg Score Collection. A Project of the American Society for Jewish Music . Click on the picture to …
Khosid/Khosidl (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT … and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … represents the old country style of klezmer with no added Americanisms.” Phillips 1996a, pp. 22 . ( Musical notation …
Bulgar (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT … and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … One of the most common dance and tune genres of the American-Jewish repertoire, popular in parts of Eastern …