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Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, 1928. … It was also featured in many publications of Jewish folk songs in the early 20th century as a wordless Hassidic … und West in 1910 ( example 1 ) and in Kisselgof's Jewish folk song collection of 1912 ( example 2 ). The similarity …
Skotshne/Skochne
… accompanied by singing... The possibility that such songs (e.g., frejlaxs ) were sung in other Ukrainian … This could not have been adopted from the Ukrainian folk music, since there were far fewer professionally-trained Ukrainian folk musicians than Jewish ones.” Beregovski 1937 [= …
Tish-nign (LKT)
… make money: a vulekhl or a doina , some zmires (religious folk songs), kind of lik Black spirituals, and Yiddish folk songs or theater songs.” Alpert 1996a, p. 16. “These …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… Month is dedicated to “E h ad mi yodea” the famous serial folksong added to the Passover haggadah . This article, … similar serial patterns of question and answer counting songs in other traditions, such as Muslim, Latin, German, … text printed in the haggadah has remained constant, a few folk, parody, H assidic, and satirical versions in Yiddish …
Jüdische Volksmusik: Eine mitteleuropäische Geistesgeschichte
… A selection of writings by scholars and folklorists, mostly of introductions to Jewish folk song collections, arranged by topics and … development of the modern conceptualization of Jewish folksongs in Central European learned circles of musicians and …
Vals (LKT)
… that among our large masses, for a long time now the folkdance has had been accompanied by singing and song; and … dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise , quadrille , waltz , … 1994, p. 10 . “A ‘kozak’ [and a freylekhs ]... were folk-dances for adults and in-laws. The youth strutted its …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… melody. 'A Gneyve' is part of a large repertoire of Yiddish songs addressing the hardships of a poverty ridden life that … (nine stanzas) appeared in Yehuda Leib Cohen's Yiddishe Folkslieder mit Melodien (1957), where the text appears … robbery and shouting to passersby to help him. Actor and folk singer Theodore Bikel during a live performance …
Karev Yom
… earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War II. … as an American theatre and movie actor, entertainer, and folk song revivalist. Music reviewers stresses his Yiddish …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… energy rather than legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali … scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a … [11] Although Carul cu Boi is usually described as “folk song,” at least its text is relatively “modern” for it …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… of this female Jewish repertoire is manifested in the songs' themes, such as the internal spiritual world of the … in the event dictates the length of the performance. Folklore scholar Vered Madar mentions in her doctoral thesis that many scholars of folklore deal with the question of how carriers of folk …