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Yiddish – The Mame Loshn (Yiddish - the Mother Tongue)
… American assimilation, and Zionism's insistance on Hebrew as the national language of Israel, its numbers have … music is heard and performed. Some of them include the singing of the Yiddish alpha bet, scenes from films (such as …
Atah Ehad
… the score should follow the natural direction of the Hebrew language – the melody is set as a responsorial piece … ad 's air of longing and contemplation and incorporated its singing into his weekly 'Oneg Shabbat' events which took … Studies in Oriental Jewry 100, (2004), pp. 125-146 (In Hebrew). [3] Idelsohn, Sefer Hashirim, iii. [4] Netiva Ben …
Anim Zemirot
… to chanting the Piyyut. The first is responsorial singing: The Hazzan reads a line and the congregation reads … letter of each line forms an acrostic that spells out the Hebrew alphabet. It is customary to recite the Piyyut when …
Shir HaKavod
… for chanting the Piyyut. The first is responsorial singing : The Hazzan reads a line and then the congregation … letter of each line forms an acrostic that spells out the Hebrew alphabet. It is customary to recite the Piyyut when …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… Annual of Jewish Studies 2 (5748[1988]), 201-226 (in Hebrew). This important study recapitulates most of the … appears in Aramaic with a Yiddish-German translation (in Hebrew characters). This Yiddish-German version was studied … death, and then goes to an addition of her own: Why are you singing H ad Gadya? Spring isn’t here and Passover hasn’t …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… Idelsohn in 1932 in the ninth volume of his Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies and was classified by him as a … Library has an ethnographic recording of Lazar Vishniak singing the first stanza of the song in 1915 in a Frankfurt … and the old songs that they sing [See this interview in Hebrew ]. The version featured on this album has Kahn …
Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture
… times of happiness and bodily pleasure. [1] The custom of singing Shir hama’alot before the mealtime Grace is … meals which are intended to be a getaway toward redemption. Singing Shir hama’alot to the typical melodies of the yearly … for Shir hama'alot among the Jews of Frankfurt am Main' [Hebrew] in Duchan 16 (2006): 293-307. … 10621 … Shir …
Chasidic in America
… first beat and Oysher responding with an improvisatory scat singing passage, clearly reminiscent of similar vocal … Oysher was in mingling Hassidic chant with the popular scat-singing craze of the day.” 1 The second section of the song … Lexicon of the Yiddish Theater , vol. 3. New York: The Hebrew Actors Union of America, 1959, pp. 2407-2415. 1 …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… Ha-Elokai.' The song is mostly constructed according to the Hebrew acrostics of “atbash” (alternating the Hebrew alphabet in direct and reverse orders; certain … were some singers who had the 'Hazakah' (privilege) of singing 'Likhvod Ha-Tanna Ha-Elokai', and the song would be …
La Gallarda matadora
… possible connections. Background Sepharad is the medieval Hebrew name for the Iberian Peninsula. The Sephardic Jews' … morphological and phonological features adopted from Hebrew and the local languages of the peoples that … southern region of Spain that includes instrumental music, singing and dance. Theories as to how and when flamenco took …