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Society for Jewish Folk Music
… be no Klezmer revival as it is flourishing today. The Hebrew National Style While each of the composers of the new Hebrew national school had his own style, there are a number … Gilad Hildesheim (violin) and Jonathan Zak (piano), perform Hebrew Melody by Joseph Achron The Character of Jewish Folk …
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: … Najara (c. 1550-1625). Mustacchi included in Shirah Hadasha Hebrew piyyutim set to contemporary popular Arab melodies, …
Mordekhai Zeira
… Naharayim power station. Zeira collaborated with several poets, with each for a period between two and three years. … produced many songs that constitute an integral part of the Hebrew folksong . Many of their songs played a documentary role in the history of the Hebrew settlement in Israel. In an interview, H ayim Keynan …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… about Hanukkah represent the individual reflections by poets and singers on the holiday's themes and the stories …

Jewish Identities and Ideologies in Music
… Reform Rabbi Judah L. Magnes, founding president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, to invite the Berlin …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… was previously set to a variety of religious poems in Hebrew and Yiddish. It was also featured in many … In his article about the Hassidic niggun in the modern Hebrew song repertory, Yaacov Mazor mentions the same melody … from March 1933 shows the Zionist youth from the Tahkemoni Hebrew school in Munkács (part of Hungary prior to World War …