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Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… music (!): J. Engel), Juedische Klaenge (Beilage zum israelitischen Familienblatt [Hamburg]), Nr. 43/23 (Mai … Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, 1928. … It was also featured in many publications of Jewish folk songs in the early 20th century as a wordless Hassidic …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… Month is dedicated to “E h ad mi yodea” the famous serial folksong added to the Passover haggadah . This article, … similar serial patterns of question and answer counting songs in other traditions, such as Muslim, Latin, German, … tempo increases and the crowd sings louder and harsher. The Israeli klezmer band Oy Division included their take of this …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… melody. 'A Gneyve' is part of a large repertoire of Yiddish songs addressing the hardships of a poverty ridden life that … (nine stanzas) appeared in Yehuda Leib Cohen's Yiddishe Folkslieder mit Melodien (1957), where the text appears … is very similar to the one in Beregovski's collection. The Israeli klezmer band ‘Oy Division’ also recorded this song …
Karev Yom
… life of those times… Theodore Bikel On October 2, 2014, Israeli anchor Gabi Gazit interviewed Theodore Bikel … earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War II. …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… energy rather than legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali … Interdisciplinary Journey into the National Anthem by the Israeli pianist and music appreciation expert Astrith … scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… (‘Today is Purim, Brothers’) is one of the most familiar songs in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has … as we pointed out on traditional formulae) shows that the folk tradition in Yiddish lacked family songs for Purim. … oder Di beyde Kunilemel [4] in the award winning 1966 Israeli film Shnei Kuni Lemel , starring Mike Burstyn and …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in … one social circle or another and later entered the canon of Israeli songs but most of them, such as this song, …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… New Findings about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research … our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Berry Sacharov - 2012 … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original performance context or … repository for the repertoire in this album. Since then the Israeli websites Invitation to Piyut and Zemereshet have … ha-mayim,” has the indication “ne’imah ‘amamit,” i.e. “folk melody.” While only Idelsohn has documented the …
Bernardo Feuer
… synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original language or … to the city of Rosario (Santa Fe province) to work at the Israelite Association of Rosario. He led that institution’s …