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Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… 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 … both their aforementioned will to integrate with German society, and the fact that the blessing portrays a …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… so forth. Below is an excerpt of the song as printed in a German Haggadah (Hamburg-Altona, 1751) followed by a more … version the song appears in Aramaic with a Yiddish-German translation (in Hebrew characters). This … utilizes this model to ask her own questions about Israeli society. The message is clear: Israel, a nation that used to …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… , the Russian composer associated with Saint Petersburg’s Society for Jewish Folk Music . The soprano voice follows a … socialist and anarchist sentiments, along with occasional German cabaret and a few originals. He has been vocal of the …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky … And the principal expression of that movement, the Society for Jewish Music, owes its origins in large part to … Palestine and the path of Jewish nationalism, others chose Germany and the United States and the varied paths of …
Forshpil (LKT)
… a great celebration. After this came the row from the youth society, the closest friends of the groom, and they would … began on the Sabbath preceding the wedding... Among the German Jews this celebration was called Spinholz, a medieval German term, the meaning of which cannot be ascertained. The …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… h a vesim h a.” In this last setting it appeared in the German-Jewish journal Ost und West in 1910 ( example 1 ) and … suggest that both stem from the collection of Leo Winz, the German publisher of Kisselgof's collection as well as the … in the way Purim is conceived by the secular Israeli Jewish society, from a religious festival to a children's festival …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… and there he floats. This specific wording appeared also in German versions of the song (for a detailed discussion of the German variants see Bohlman and Holtzafpel 2001, no. 10, pp. … of Yiddish Folksong . Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1963. Sharvit, Shimon. “The Oriental Version of ‘E …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Different scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a possible source of inspiration: … some of them borrowed from the surrounding non-Jewish society. [29] Ashkenazi Hypothesis Also Ashkenazi melodies …
Yonatan Malin
… structure and meaning a wide variety of genres including German Lieder, Klezmer, and Jewish liturgical music. His book Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied was published in 2010 by Oxford University … and he has presented papers at national meetings of the Society for Music Theory and the Society for …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… World Music (Amherst, 2010) and the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (New Orleans, 2012). I would … Schönberg 1927 provides a condensed and rich analysis of German-Jewish (Western Ashkenazi) cantillation based on … Biblical Commentary.” Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University 4, no. 1: 2–11. …