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Too Early To Be Quiet, Too Late To Sing
… Documentary. Yiddish and Hebrew w/ English subtitles. 53 min. Too Early To Be Quiet, … Yiddish poet Binem Hiller, expressing the status of Yiddish literature today. This also describes the atmosphere in … A flourishing Yiddish culture of poetry, music, drama, and literature came to an abrupt end with the Holocaust. A small …
Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy
… place Yemenite Jews held within Idelsohn’s philosophies of Hebrew culture and history. Finally, Judah Cohen will … Loeffler, University of Virginia In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical … and the formation of Israeli culture. Scholars of Hebrew literature have focused particular attention on the role of …
In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism
… Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of Literatures, Languages and Arts Section) In collaboration … Zionism and the formation of Israeli culture. Scholars of Hebrew literature have focused particular attention on the … and European models in the aesthetic development of Modern Hebrew culture. This paper proposes to explore what …
The Father of Jewish Musicology and the Natives: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Yemenites
… Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of Literatures, Languages and Arts Section) In collaboration … Jewish music, as the first volume of his Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies will attest. However I will also …
Badhan
… Hebrew lit. entertainer. A merrymaker, rhymester, and … leizanim ('jesters') are mentioned in medieval rabbinical literature (e.g. R. Elijah b. Isaac of Carcassonne's Asufot) …
Hay ram galeh
… tradition of turning secular Arabic songs into sacred Hebrew ones. Halevi is certainly not a trained poet but … . This experience resulted in his comand of a wide range of Hebrew formulae that can be assembled to substitute the … text does not shine otherwise as an independent piece of literature. It only makes sense in the context of its …
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
… Research on the image of the Jew in eighteenth-century literature and theater has not identified any musical … 10 … Jerusalem, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem … Yuval Music Series … 9 … …
‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)
… the song. Here are some of the opening lines of the Hebrew prayer: For the sin which we have committed against … the ‘Al het prayer.' Furthermore, the prayer's original Hebrew words appear in the song's last line: ''Al Cheyt … treatment of the subject in relation to American Jewish literature and arts see, Hoffman, Warren D. The Passing …
Had Gadya
… Annual of Jewish Studies 2 (5748[1988]), 201-226 (in Hebrew). This important study recapitulates most of the previous relevant literature on the topic while at the same time offers a … appears in Aramaic with a Yiddish-German translation (in Hebrew characters). This Yiddish-German version was studied …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… Annual of Jewish Studies 2 (5748[1988]), 201-226 (in Hebrew). This important study recapitulates most of the previous relevant literature on the topic while at the same time offers a … appears in Aramaic with a Yiddish-German translation (in Hebrew characters). This Yiddish-German version was studied …