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Heikhal Hanegina (the Hall of Music)
… A term from the Kabbalah, that refers to a heavenly hall in … These mystical ideas were mentioned in the book of Zohar, and later in the Kabbalah teachings of the 'Ari' … and then integrating them with holy texts. Abraham Zvi Idelsohn , in his article 'Hanegina Ha h assidit' [1] , …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… The Yiddish language, which probably began to develop around the tenth … spoken language and language of oral creation of the Ashkenazi Jews of both Western and Eastern Europe, whereas in the … with a checklist of printed sources , München, 1989. Idelsohn, A.Z., Hebraeisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz , …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… Although the song Hatikvah became the emblematic lyrical signifier of Zionism, other contemporary songs of Hatikvah contented for … finds echoes in yet another interesting source. Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, the “father” of Jewish music research, noted a …
Atah Ehad
… The classification of traditional Ashkenazi melodies into clearly defined genres is a difficult, … of the setting of this melody for Atah E h ad is in Idelsohn's second edition of Sefer Hashirim (Berlin 1922) …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… In honor of May Day and the tradition of Jewish political radicalism in … Eastern Europe, our Song of the Month is “In Zaltsikn Yam” (In the Salty Sea), an early-twentieth-century … one . This version of the melody was published by A.Z. Idelsohn in 1932 in the ninth volume of his Thesaurus of …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk … one of antisemitic exclusion. The philosemitic story emphasizes that Jewish music blossomed in Russia because Jews … “Do Zionists Read Music from Right to Left? Avraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Invention of Israeli Music,” Jewish …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… Example 2 Notation to "ekh ti zimliak" taken from Sefer HaN igunim . Brooklyn: Ḥevrat … Beregovski [ Example 4 ], Yehudah Leib Cahan and A.Z. Idelsohn . The first two are identical and there is only a …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… This song of the month is a humorous Yiddish song about a robbery. It is also known as “Bay Mein Rebbe iz Gevezn,” as well as “Oy Gevalt a Ganev” and “Khapt Im Nemt … robbery. There are two variants to the song's melody. A.Z. Idelsohn published both in the ninth volume of his …
Arbie Orenstein
… Arbie Orenstein was born and raised in New York City, he … also wrote an introductory essay on the life and work of A.Z. Idelsohn for the Dover reprint of Idelsohn's classic text, …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely … from Smetana nor from a Sephardic prayer. And an early Zionist pioneer did not compose it spontaneously. Nor did it … process. Even the distinguished musicologist Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, who settled in Jerusalem in 1907 and was close in …