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Beroyges-tants
… for a long time now the folkdance has been accompanied by singing; and not only to [modern couple dances such as] the … p. 1266 . “The ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ dances [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of the style of …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… Within his vast oeuvre there are a handful of songs with Jewish themes, and a few of them are specifically related to Hanukkah. Guthrie himself was not Jewish; however his second wife, Marjorie Mazia Greenblatt, … the presence of Irish singer Susan McKeown, who alternates singing verses with Lorin Sklamberg, the Klezmatics' …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… singular khusid ] were cornerstones of Leon’s old-time, Jewish dance repertoire. He often referred to them as a … [ mitsve dance], alluding to their frequent use at Jewish weddings to accompany the mitsve [ritual … also play frejlaxs at weddings, sometimes accompanied by singing... The possibility that such songs (e.g., frejlaxs ) …
Kale bazetsen (LKT)
… as bazetsn di kale (seating the bride) or bazingen di kale (singing to the bride). Performed mainly for female members … was an important ritual at the traditional East European Jewish wedding. It was usually performed by the musicians …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… the written sources, Yaari found that the “Musta'aravim” (Jewish residents of the Land of Israel, who, for … haircut. During these celebrations, members of the various Jewish communities sing piyyutim that were written in honor … were some singers who had the 'Hazakah' (privilege) of singing 'Likhvod Ha-Tanna Ha-Elokai', and the song would be …
Chasidic in America
… (as can be found on the track's entry at the Freedman Jewish Sound Archive ) while others to Alexander Olshanetsky … first beat and Oysher responding with an improvisatory scat singing passage, clearly reminiscent of similar vocal … song in an ambivalent position between the Eastern European Jewish and the Afro-American musical realms. Indeed Hankus …
Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture
… manginot mibeit Abba", produced by Renanot : Institute for Jewish music. CD1703 in the National Sound Archive. Score … times of happiness and bodily pleasure. [1] The custom of singing Shir hama’alot before the mealtime Grace is … the second half of the twentieth century, when many German Jewish liturgical traditions fell into oblivion, the …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… 720 … In honor of May Day and the tradition of Jewish political radicalism in late nineteenth-century … 1901 by S. An-sky (Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport [1863-1920]) the Jewish writer, ethnographer, poet, and radical. The song's … Library has an ethnographic recording of Lazar Vishniak singing the first stanza of the song in 1915 in a Frankfurt …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… of intensive study by a distinguished gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting … death, and then goes to an addition of her own: Why are you singing H ad Gadya? Spring isn’t here and Passover hasn’t …
Shir HaKavod
… for chanting the Piyyut. The first is responsorial singing : The Hazzan reads a line and then the congregation … is in the minor mode and it most likely originated in the Jewish communities of Germany where it is known with some …