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La Gallarda matadora
… songs. Two musicians who fuse these two genres are the Israeli singer Yasmin Levy and the guitarist Baldi Olier. … dancer, has, for example, cooperated with Mor Karbasi, an Israeli singer who specializes mostly on Sephardic songs. … in some interesting commercial renditions, e.g. a very early one by Haim Effendi , I will focus here on the latter. …
Sher
… around 1830 (in Czechoslovakia) and the quadrille in the early nineteenth century (Parisian), and the lancers was … only the wedding dance, the sher, won acceptance in Erez Israel.” EncyJud 1971, p. 1270 . “The bands themselves … prevalent among Jews of Eastern Europe and now found in Israel and the Diaspora. The sher was a favorite of the …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… music (!): J. Engel), Juedische Klaenge (Beilage zum israelitischen Familienblatt [Hamburg]), Nr. 43/23 (Mai … very popular Eastern European Ashkenazi melody that, in the early 1920s, was set by the poet Levin Kipnis to the lyrics … featured in many publications of Jewish folk songs in the early 20th century as a wordless Hassidic niggun as well as …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… dream in the book of Genesis); twelve – the tribes of Israel; thirteen – attributes of mercy (according to … in Prague in 1526/7 found at the National Library of Israel . It appeared in print for the first time in the 1590 … structure of questions and answers and its numbers are nearly identical to those in “E h ad mi yodea,” with some of …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… piyyutim The baqqashot singing tradition Piyyutim for the yearly cycle and life-cycle Summary Bibliography The … Turkey, the Balkan countries, Syria, Lebanon, the Land of Israel, and Egypt. H azzanim (cantors) and payytanim passed … musical system that shaped the Shabbat and holiday prayers. Early evidence for this phenomenon is found in the …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… the stolen objects listed in this second version are nearly identical to those in the first version. On the other … is very similar to the one in Beregovski's collection. The Israeli klezmer band ‘Oy Division’ also recorded this song …
Karev Yom
… life of those times… Theodore Bikel On October 2, 2014, Israeli anchor Gabi Gazit interviewed Theodore Bikel … Speaking live from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv, Bikel was nearly offended when Gazit asked him if the interview should … the end of the interview, when asked if he remembers his early days in Tel Aviv, Bikel responded simply with the …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… not derive from Smetana nor from a Sephardic prayer. And an early Zionist pioneer did not compose it spontaneously. Nor did it become the national anthem of the State of Israel until very recently. The truth is that Hatikvah (“The Hope”) is a perfect example of the early Zionist movement’s creative drive and haphazard, …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… borrowed for this play, as was the standard practice in the early Yiddish theater. ‘Flaker, Feirel, Flaker’ crossed the … at the beginning of this article. Goldfarb’s version is clearly taken from the zamelbukh , except that it is … in the Sound Archives of the National Library of Israel are a testimony to the presence of Rivesman’s song as …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… l/sites/default/files/attachments/Idelsohn%20-%20Am%27cha%20Yisrael.jpg … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” … sections. The text draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist songbooks and … cantillation, he was also one of the most important early collectors and arrangers of Zionist music in America. …