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An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… already includes a linguistic ambivalence, as it mixes Hebrew with Aramaic. Without addressing anew the diverse … the making of this song. Translating the beloved Passover folksongs added to the Haggadah sometime during the late … questions. Far from claiming that the original “Aramaized” Hebrew version customary today is not the original one, …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… family from Bombay who sang this melody to the religious Hebrew text, “Ki eshmerah Shabbat,” a song intended for the … (1998) in collaboration with Uri Amram. This book includes Hebrew poems created through the process of contrafactum: … once again reinforcing the popularity of this Arabic folksong within the community.' [8] Mustacchi wrote “Kum Am …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… to the Eastern European melos of the Jewish prayer, Yiddish folksong and instrumental music, enabled the distribution of … notice the presence of fragments from nign 3 in the Zionist Hebrew repertoire consolidating in Palestine since the late … As Mazor has shown in his groundbreaking study, this new Hebrew repertoire, usually known as Shirei Eretz Israel …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the sixteenth … . Today many consider “Pesah a la mano” as a traditional folksong, and rightly so. Jagoda first recorded the song in … literary genres in different languages, written and oral. A Hebrew song generates a popular saying combining Hebrew and …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… songs, it seems that the absence of a scholar familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs was detrimental to this … in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish) usually impede access for the general … Abba Kovner and Sinai Leichter. 1985. Anthology of Yiddish Folksongs , Vol. 4. Jerusalem: Magnes. Vītols. Jāzeps (ed. …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… There he founded the Archive for Oriental Music at the Hebrew University. Edith Gerson-Kiwi joined him, working as … Had Gadya Kedusha Four Melodies for Four Questions Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong) The … Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel). It was launched in …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hacohen, NLI, Yc 197 … 714 … In his pioneer publication Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical … comprehensive method for addressing the musical aspects of Hebrew liturgical poetry from an evolutionary diachronic … is found in many Ashkenazi liturgical melodies and Yiddish folksongs. All in all, this oral version vindicates Wodak’s …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… both in the Yiddish-speaking world as well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the Land of Israel. I am grateful … College Archive of Jewish Sound; Dr. Michael Lukin from the Hebrew University; Maestro Raymond Goldstein; and Prof. … as “folk melody.” Indeed, the tune recalls those of Russian folksongs. However, it has not been located, thus far, …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… performance context or with their melodies of old. The Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in … Moreover, the catalogue of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts at the National Library of Israel lists … the “folk” one became widespread, indeed as a Hebrew folksong, in the Yishuv. Later on, in the young State of …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval … Ashkenazi communities, a paraphrase in Yiddish followed the Hebrew text phrase by phrase, a common learning technique in … W. Binder, Seder Melodies: The Hagaddah Set to Music: in Hebrew and English for the Religious School, Congregational …