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Shofet Kol Ha'aretz

… of digital resources have enhanced the study of the Jewish liturgy helping us to make more accurate assessments … against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises … documented in 1724 and 1733) found in South and West Germany, West of the Rhine river (See Image no. 1 ) and in …

Society for Jewish Folk Music

… Borodin and Moussorgsky – was introduced to the Russian Jewish composer and music critic Joel Engel . Stasov … for abandoning his own heritage for the Slavic culture of Russian intellectuals. “Where is your national … Joel Engel, Er hat mir fest gelobt Engel left Russia for Germany in 1922, where he established the Juwal Publishing …

Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim

… the four days of fast, and thrice on Yom Kippur. All of the Jewish communities in Israel, both Sephardic and Ashkenazi, … there are examples of the Priestly Blessing from both Germany and Poland. The difference between the two … Germany, and the Jews' attempts to integrate with European culture during that period, awareness arose pertaining to …

Brakha Tzefira

… same year, Tzefira and Nardi began a series of concerts in Germany and other parts of Europe, and Tzefira left her … Tzefira knew from her childhood including Sephardic songs, Jewish songs from Yemen, Persia, and Bukhara, as well as … as Jews in Europe, and the will to take pride in their culture. However, it was also external pressure, coming from …

Erinhern für die Zukunft: Remember for the future

… and Polish. In this film they can be seen performing around Germany, learning a song by Mordechai Gebirtig, visiting … … Hebrew song … Children … Choir … Shibolet BaSadeh … Jewish Culture Germany … Erinhern für die Zukunft: Remember for the …

Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)

… began to develop around the tenth century A.D. in south Germany, was the main spoken language and language of oral … and the folksongs, like many other elements of Ashkenazi culture, are made up of a combination of components from … baby, a secular activity, was sometimes accompanied by non-Jewish melodies, sometimes by religious melodies, and …

Klezmer in Germany

… as well as the different aspects of its recent revival in Germany amongst Jewish and non Jewish musicians. Excerpt from the film … Germany … Cultural contact and exchange … Diasporic Jewish Culture … Klezmer in Germany …

Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German

… status it acquired exemplify the mechanisms through which Jewish modernity articulated itself on the basis of German … permeated German-Jewish memory and survived (mostly in Germany), on a subterranean level, until the present. Text … could as well be borrowed from the surrounding non-Jewish cultures. The song is reprinted with music in the important …

Had Gadya

… of intensive study by a distinguished gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early … of the eighteenth-century) in the Beit Midrash of Worms (Germany) and dated 1406. On fol. 47a of his Haggadah … attesting for its widespread appeal in non-Jewish cultures in Europe and beyond. Among these famous parallels …