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Bin Tavinu Liqnot Bina Ha'azinu
… in Damascus, Safed, and Gaza. He was one of the greatest Hebrew poets in the period after the expulsion from Spain. Najara … are based on Turkish, Arab, Spanish and Greek songs, or on Hebrew piyyutim he favored. In the printed editions of …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… text for easy online search and mobile viewing. Idelsohn's Hebrew and English biographies, written in the early 1930s, … in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared in Die Chasanim Welt 3, no. 15, (Sh’vat, … that I collected and annotated and the history of their poets, was published by our College four years ago; “Hebrew …

Zemirot
… home songs . These are a specific set of religious poems in Hebrew or Aramaic written mostly between the 10th and 17th …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… of piyyutim. Their repertoire included poems written by the poets of the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of Hebrew poetry in Spain (10th to 13th centuries), and these … by the individual. The Baqqashah is unique to the religious Hebrew poetry of medieval Spain, it is usually scanned in …
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 … transcriptions of Jewish songs in 1899), a complete Hebrew publication devoted to Lithuanian folk literature …

Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… work include the international mega hit 'Tzena Tzena' with Hebrew words by Yehiel Hagiz, and English words by Gordon … 'Ufi Ruach' with words by Aaron Ashman became the first Hebrew song to be broadcast on Egyptian radio, in the … Bikel , choir, and orchestra. The proceeds went to 'The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Bikel / Miron Scholarship …
Brakha Tzefira
… to challenge themselves by attempting to suit the words of Hebrew poems, especially those of Bialik, to the Arabic or … ear and a light touch at the piano, and was familiar with Hebrew lyrics, although from a traditional galut (Diaspora) … either by working with composers on the melodies, or with poets on the lyrics. Her songs based on Arab or Bedouin …
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 … Al-Andalus, and stems from the adoption by Iberian Hebrew poets of the Arabic system of scansion. One of the masters …
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. … Edelstadt (1866–1892), one of the radical socialist Yiddish poets who settled in the USA in 1881, penned the text of …