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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… in anthologies of Yiddish songs, the most prominent language of this corpus. Originally, the publication was … of Melngailis’s collection. The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where … The rich commentary on these songs are unprecedented in English, but one wonders about their usefulness to …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… York: Global Village). Traditional patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino and English) Purim, Purim, Purim lanu, Purim, Purim, Purim is … between diverse Sephardi literary genres in different languages, written and oral. A Hebrew song generates a …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… first stage, the project consisted of the full bilingual (English/Hebrew characters) computerization of the original … cataloging system and in the Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew languages, engaged in this project from 1996 to 1999. Adler …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… to integrate into the Israeli economy and society, due to language barriers, skills that were more fitted to rural … critiques the then-available (rather scant) literature in English on traditional Ethiopian music of the Amhara culture …
Pete Sokolow
… (Brooklyn, New York: 2013). This interview was conducted in English, Yiddish, Multiple languages. By Yiddish Book Center: Regenerating Jewish …
65. El baile de los falsos (Sida Musafija)
… Petersburg edition; the first American edition of 1905 has English lyrics by C.H. Taylor). However, it was the 1905 … (including the young Maurice Chevalier) and in several languages. No wonder then that the Sephardic Jews of the … other nations did: they wrote a cover version in their own language. Oral versions from Bulgaria and Bosnia were …
Enni enni tirttu dinam (The fifth of Iyyar)
… up" the independence which was handed over by "the brutal Englishmen." Set to a popular cinema tune of the day, "Enni … Immigration … India … Indian Jewery … Jewish communities … Languages … Women … Women singing … Women's songs … Israel … …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Idelsohn himself left a rather short autobiography in English and Hebrew published towards the end of his life, … in both versions, having in mind the diverse Hebrew and English readerships. Almost totally absent from this text … I was surprised to hear them speaking in the Hebrew language and what amazed me even more was hearing the …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… search and mobile viewing. Idelsohn's Hebrew and English biographies, written in the early 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 … here to English. Both were reprinted in their original language in Idelsohn’s memorial volume, Yuval 5 (1986). …
Léibele Schwartz
Schwartz was born in Brod, Poland, on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began…