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The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… known by its Ladino name, Esnoga, and is one of the Dutch Jewish community's most important structures. Its history and that of Amsterdam's Jewish community reflects the history of the entire Jewish … Amsterdam and in all of the Netherlands. By the eve of the Holocaust, the various Jewish communities made up 10% of …
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 … speed with which Dort wo die Zeder spread throughout Jewish (and as we shall see also non-Jewish) spaces as an … was designed to convey to the readers/singers. After the Holocaust World War II brings to an end the millenary …
Tomorrow's A Wonderful Day
… by Helmar Lerski This film is a docu-drama about a young holocaust survivor in the children's village of Ben-Shemen. … Complete film on Youtube, courtesy of the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive Virtual Cinema: … 9 … … Piyyutim … 1948 … … Lekha Dodi (Piyyut) … Piyyut … Early Israel … Survivors … Holocaust … Lewandowski, Louis … Tomorrow's A Wonderful Day …
Para Para
… (1886-1944) who, as Haim Aharon Kaplan, perished in the Holocaust. However, the song does not appear in Katznelson's …
Famous Persons
… Irgun yotsʾe Sarnaḳi be-Yiśraʾel … … 1968 … Polish Jewry … Jewish Holocaust … Ashkenazi … Sharga Zeyerman … Dov Shuval … …
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 … …
Karev Yom
… of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after … movement to achieve independence in the aftermath of the Holocaust (of which he luckily escaped), tainted him as a … sound and the packaging of Bikel’s album catered to this Jewish market and its imagination of the new Israel. The …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its practice at ceremonies of Jewish institutions, synagogues, schools and youth … in Ladino and Turkish. [57] One Song, Many Memories The Holocaust is a powerful screen that in one way or another …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… destructive in scale, the fire came as a great blow to the Jewish community living in Saloniki at the time. The fire … tens of thousands of Jews homeless and consumed most of the Jewish neighborhood in the old city, including areas of … community would eventually be eclipsed by that of the Holocaust, the fire played a catalytic role in ending an era …
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 … Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned narrative describes how the first Jewish family (Abraham, Sarah and Isaac) came close to …