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Yiddish – The Mame Loshn (Yiddish - the Mother Tongue)
… world. Now, as a result of different factors, such as the Holocaust, American assimilation, and Zionism's insistance … of the culture are discussed such as film, poetry and music. There are a few scenes in the film where Yiddish music is heard and performed. Some of them include the …
And Now We're All Brothers: Singing In Yiddish In Contemporary North America
… past traditions and present concerns, most particularly the Holocaust and the construction of Jewish identities through musical performances. … 1 … Farnham, Surrey … Ashgate … … …
Karev Yom
… The interview was held at the initiative of the Israeli music connoisseur and collector Dudi Patimer. Speaking live … and movie actor, entertainer, and folk song revivalist. Music reviewers stresses his Yiddish or international … movement to achieve independence in the aftermath of the Holocaust (of which he luckily escaped), tainted him as a …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … in Ladino and Turkish. [57] One Song, Many Memories The Holocaust is a powerful screen that in one way or another … nowadays online are those related to testimonies from the Holocaust. The singing of Hatikvah by the surviving inmates …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… community would eventually be eclipsed by that of the Holocaust, the fire played a catalytic role in ending an era … with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The … Songs and the Memory of Saloniki In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the Ladino song tradition from Saloniki was …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… of Niggun ‘Akedah , transcribed between 1840 and the Holocaust period, and two recent audio recordings. The … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … chants for ʽ Akedah piyyutim recorded between 1840 and the Holocaust period. A close study of these melodies follows …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … one of the most distinguished and long-standing Moroccan musicians in Israel. This short note prepared by JMRC … Mwijo adamantly refused to play in Germany because of the Holocaust – even after an offer of 10,00 Deutschmarks (an …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … 1794). Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common … Some of these materials miraculously survived the Holocaust. Adler eventually dedicated his dissertation to …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new bar in the musicological study of the piyyut . His insights on a … Temples.” This volume in particular fit into the post-Holocaust atmosphere of Israel’s early years, in which the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … York, in a collection of Yiddish and Hebrew songs sung by Holocaust survivors. The setting of the popular American … The volume includes hitherto unknown information on one Holocaust victim. “Melngailis heard [song no. 8] performed …