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Klezmer in Germany
… of the BBC series 'European Roots.' In this episode Klezmer music is discussed as well as the different aspects of its recent revival in Germany amongst Jewish and non Jewish musicians. Excerpt … Alex Jacobowitz who performs marimba on the streets of Germany: … 9 … 34208 … … 2007 … Klezmer music … Klezmer …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… began to develop around the tenth century A.D. in south Germany, was the main spoken language and language of oral … syntax, morphology, and prosody of Yiddish combine German and Hebrew components, and in Eastern Europe also … strata, makes it possible to speculate in regards to the musical development of the tradition, despite the lack of …
Brakha Tzefira
… His wife Hadassah, Brakha's beloved teacher, encouraged her musical talents, and proposed that Tzefira should sing … same year, Tzefira and Nardi began a series of concerts in Germany and other parts of Europe, and Tzefira left her … she performed, among other places, in refugee camps in Germany. A special event on the tour was the visit of …
Elohim Eshala
… They formed an ensemble specializing on Israeli “folk music” called “Oranim Tzabar” playing arrangements by … tradition and betray the encounter of Dahiyani with Jewish musicians from other Arab-Jewish traditions in Israel, … traditions into new music. Of course, the mastery of this German Jewish composer of international stature stands out …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… the words ' Yishar koa h .' The Simple Reading The musical capabilities of the priests are very diverse and … there are examples of the Priestly Blessing from both Germany and Poland. The difference between the two traditions is quite obvious. While the Germanic synagogues use extended melodies for twelve of the …
A Bookshelf On Top of the Sky: 12 Stories about John Zorn
… American composer who has been active in the New York music scene since the mid 1970s. During that period, Zorn's music has dabbled in free jazz, hardcore punk music, soundtracks, Jewish music, modern art, surf music, …
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
… literature and theater has not identified any musical parallels to contemporary representations of Jews in … David Buch’s new study offers the earliest identifiable musical depictions of Jews in European theater (specifically … the first positive Jewish characters began to appear on the German stage, presenting an alternative to the common …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… on the eve of the Russian Orthodox Easter, two Russian musicians met in an encounter that was to have impacts on classical and popular music to this day. Vladimir Stasov, music historian and … Engel, Er hat mir fest gelobt \ Engel left Russia for Germany in 1922, where he established the Juwal Publishing …
The Tedeschian Community
… [1] The Tedeschian Jews are Ashkenazi Jews who originated in Germany, and immigrated to Italy at the end of the fifteenth … (Tedescho in singular), which means 'Ashkenazi' or 'German,' was coined by the local Italian Jews who lived in … within the synagogue, and these are apparent in the music: The piyyutim melodies are mostly borrowed from the …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… line of the opening stanza, is the refrain (same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … catalogue. The persistence of our poem in the heart of the German soil and its presence further East, in Poland, is … documented in 1724 and 1733) found in South and West Germany, West of the Rhine river (See Image no. 1 ) and in …