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In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… Yam” (In the Salty Sea), an early-twentieth-century Yiddish workers' song [See also Song of the Month for May 2010 ]. … as it was written for the Bund, the General Union of Jewish Workers in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia (Der Algemeyner … Poland in 1922 in the eighth volume of An-sky’s collected works, as well as in Chana and Joseph Mlotek's 1974 …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… The recordings and accompanying commentaries are the work of Dr. Susana Weich-Shahak, one of the veteran … Folk music … Folklore … Folksongs … Turkey … Balkan music … Field work … Field recordings … Spanish … Eastern Sephardi … Susana …

«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… clearest example of these various ideological currents at work comes in the unpublished memoirs of the composer … this strength you may contribute something original in the field of music, something truly worthy.” [24] The same … but it never occured to me that I would work in the field of Jewish music.» M. F. Gnesin, “Ocherk po istorii …
Experiencing Devekut
… This study, the first of its kind, is based on extensive field work and participatory observations carried out among … in the text as well as a CD with excerpts from the field recordings upon which the study relied. … 10 … 38853 …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… ‘avoda' (Yu lay lay, yu lay lay, what shall we do without work) or 'Ma kara, ma kara, nishbera hake’ara' (What …
Karev Yom
… the establishment of the state as well as their social networks abroad (e.g. Bikel’s own collaboration with Dov … and pert hat…her sun-bronzed legs marching happily across a field, with a hoe on her shoulder. Elektra received numerous … the kibbutz she lived on. In fact she was a model, and the field was in Long Island.” Bikel recalled the same incident …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… [10] Since then, a barrage of additional information or reworking of the story were published, mostly without adding … while nostalgically celebrating the old ways of plowing the fields. Put differently, when Samuel Cohen learned the song … Palestine/Eretz Israel of which Hatikvah is just one more field of contestation between clashing narratives. By now, …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… in Israel and abroad and she combined these different fields in her educational activities as well. According to … her mother and other women, was the inspiration behind her work. Today she continues to perform across Israel works from the Yemenite Jewish male and female song and …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… I conclude in Section 12 by reflecting on the goal of this work—which is to offer new ways of hearing and understanding … West Side of Chicago beginning in the 1940s, and additional fieldwork in the late 1970s (Kalib 2002; vol. 1, part 1, … analytical study of Jewish music in that sense is an open field. It may be developed as music theorists continue to …
Assaf Shelleg
… and contemporaneity) while focusing on the cultural networks in which art music was written by or about Jews, in … of Hebrew culture while critically reading the works and archival collections of Mordecai Seter , Paul …