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The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… in a neighborhood later known as the Jewish Quarter. By the early 17 th century, there were three Jewish communities … (founded around 1602); Neve Shalom (1608-1612); and Beit Yisrael (1618). In 1639, the three communities merged and … that had been passed down orally from the late 18 th and early 19 th century Spanish tradition. The most reliable …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… Hatikvah contented for that spot in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Today these songs are only … wo die Zeder was one of those celebrated and widespread early Zionist anthems, as it emerges from the historical … of the Zionist movement up to establishment of the state of Israel. שָׁם בִּמְקוֹם אֲרָזִים שָׁם בִּמְקוֹם אֲרָזִים …
This is How We Build Musical Instruments Made of Plants
… Jewish Film Archive Virtual Cinema : … 9 … … Eretz-Israel … 1960 … Children … Kibbutzim … Kibbutz … Eretz-Yisrael - the Land of Israel … Homemade Instruments … Instructional … Early Israel … This is How We Build Musical Instruments Made …
Tomorrow's A Wonderful Day
… Kabbalat Shabbat … Shabbat … Lekha Dodi (Piyyut) … Piyyut … Early Israel … Survivors … Holocaust … Lewandowski, Louis … …
The Israeli Mediterranean Style
… . The term Mediterranean style, as it has been used in Israel, originally referred to selected versions of European … 1930s throughout the 1940s, then in Israel mostly until the early 1950s, denoting an emerging national identity through … our discussion to Israeli art music composed through the early 1950s, this entry will focus on the original concept. …
Atah Ehad
… The classification of traditional Ashkenazi melodies into clearly defined genres is a difficult, perhaps impossible … tunes were reincarnated as Zionist songs, becoming Israeli folk songs and folk dances in both secular and … the melody, the song was not performed in this form even as early as 1935 (as can be seen in score no. 2). In addition, …
Had Gadya
… gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting with Leopold Zunz. … of the songs ‘E h ad mi yode’a’ and ‘ H ad Gadya’ in Israel and among the nations,” Assufot: Annual of Jewish … prior to its earliest appearance in print, perhaps as early as the fifteenth century. Detail from Yiddish …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… sung at the Passover seder in some of its contemporary Israeli versions. Written in Aramaic, H ad Gadya appears at … gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting with Leopold Zunz. … prior to its earliest appearance in print, perhaps as early as the fifteenth century. Detail from Yiddish …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… of the Month is “In Zaltsikn Yam” (In the Salty Sea), an early-twentieth-century Yiddish workers' song [See also Song … Lithuanian, and Polish Jewish labor Bund). This song clearly reflects the dominating ideology of the Bund, a strong … songs, there are only few recordings of it available. Israel’s National Library has an ethnographic recording of …
Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture
… refers mainly to the hope of the return of the Children of Israel from the Babylonian exile in the past, it is used … Singing Shir hama’alot to the typical melodies of the yearly cycle was a widespread musical custom of … domestic sphere among families of German origin residing in Israel. The following table shows which melodies of festive …