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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 …

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 …
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 …
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 …
A Bookshelf On Top of the Sky: 12 Stories about John Zorn
… Directed by Claudia Heuermann. John Zorn is a Jewish American composer who has been active in the New York … has dabbled in free jazz, hardcore punk music, soundtracks, Jewish music, modern art, surf music, and countless other … music. Zorn creates here what he calls radical Jewish culture, a prominent motif of his later career and a series …

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 … Engel, Er hat mir fest gelobt \ Engel left Russia for Germany in 1922, where he established the Juwal Publishing …
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 …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… 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 Rhine river (See Image no.1( and in North … language like pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock …

The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany
… story of the author’s parents, who met as performers in the Jewish Culture Association ('Jdische Kulturbund') orchestra in … decision by the author’s father to return from Sweden to Germany in 1936 to be with the woman who would later be his …

The Jewish Bloch
… On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of his Death The Jewish Bloch Chair: Malcom Miller Zecharia Plavin, Jerusalem … generated 'nation-portraits' in view of the music-cum-culture-oriented commentators. Such a cultural discourse … (which were never performed after their premieres in Germany). Yet there is little doubt that it was the …