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Alegre m'alegre (Juego de callarse)
… A children’s game in which, after this rhyme is completed, the first one who speaks loses the game. Here …
Luvia del Dio (Invocaciòn a la lluvia)
… Children’s invocation of rain is common in Sephardic traditions. When rain was needed, Jewish children were asked to pray, even by non-Jews. … …
Endentino (Retahila de sorteo)
… A song used to choose the role each child will play in a game. This rhyme is the origin of one of the most common Israeli children’s rhymes, “Endendino sofalacatino,” which derives …
Dicotín dicotán (Ricotín ricotán)
… A children’s game: one child lowers his head, hides his face and closes his eyes, while … verses are obscure or incomprehensible, as is common in children’s games. A very similar text is used in Spain today …
18 -19. Los dedos hambrientos
… Two variants of a children’s rhyme recited while playing with the fingers, starting with stroking the child’s palm and then saying: …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great … indeed Mother was a good woman, devoted to her husband and children. Her kindly spirit was always apparent when she … to the kindergarten teachers who gathered all of the children together and all of us sang the same songs that I …
Hashkivenu
… Singing Hashkivenu with a distinctive melody in the Friday night service is … in Amsterdam the hazzan performed this piece with the children's choir. In the present recording, the melody is …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose crucial contributions remain … for young readers of Hebrew language and on the modern children’s press in Hebrew. Hacohen was also a veteran of …
A. Irma Cohon
… In collaboration with the National Council of Jewish Women, Cohon authored Introduction to Jewish Music in Eight Illustrated Lectures , a foundational text … musicologist A.Z. Idelssohn to produce Harvest Festivals: A Children’s Succoth Celebration . Her legacy is preserved in …
שיר הנמל
… In the Israeli imagination, the Mediterranean Sea evokes at once the western frontier, the venue from … boats, sea travel and ports are also conspicuous in the children’s repertoire in Hebrew. … ילד חן, ילדת חן: שירי …