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We Are Here: Songs of the Holocaust
… Melodies and lyrics for over forty Holocaust-era Jewish folk songs. Includes singable English translations for each … … 10 … 36078 … New York: … Hippocrene Books … … 1983 … Folk songs … Holocaust … Translations … Eleanor Gordon …

Free-Form Recitative and Strophic Structure in the Hallel Psalms
… maqam principle, but the metrical tunes may be considered folk songs, and are influenced by other cultures. The … Orbis Musicae … 35944 … 43-80 … … VII … 1979-80 … Jewish … Folk songs … History … Psalms … Religion … Hallel … Hungary …

Society for Jewish Folk Music
… … New Haven … Yale University Press … … Eastern Europe … Folk music … History … Europe … Culture … East … Cult … James Loeffler … Society for Jewish Folk Music …

Sabbath in Paradise
… contemporary klezmer musicians. Basis for the title is the folktale, 'Sabbath in Paradise,' which was originally told …

Too Early To Be Quiet, Too Late To Sing
… their poems and stories. Along the way she sings a Yiddish folk songs. With numerous albums to her name, Chava …

The Singing Blacksmith - Yankl der schmid
… this the most complete extant version of Ulmer’s lively folk operetta, replete with an example of Yiddish swing. … 3 …

The Dybbuk - Der dibuk
… The idea for the play came to Ansky as he led a Jewish folklore expedition through small towns of Eastern Europe, …

Yiddle With His Fiddle - Yidl mitn fidl
… Yiddish theater, vaudeville, and film. This is the classic folk comedy about a man and his daughter who, penniless, … romance. Green's original screenplay was enhanced by the folksy lyrics of Yiddish poet Itzik Manger and the memorable …

Song of the Sephardi
… portray and interpret the lyrics of the traditional Ladino folk songs that have been the lifeblood and musical soul of …

A Man from Munkasc: Gypsy Klezmer
… examines how this persecuted group (the Rom) saved Jewish folk music until it could be returned to the Jews. We learn …