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On musical connections between Jews and the neighboring peoples of Eastern and Western Europe
… Massachusetts at Amherst … no. 18 … … 1989 … Maks Gol'din … Jewish folk music in Europe … Klezmer music … Ashkenazi … Max Goldin … …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Purim brider' from the Ruth Rubin's archival collection, "Folksongs and Folklore 1948-1967 – Holidays' Songs – Purim." Recorded in … as we pointed out on traditional formulae) shows that the folk tradition in Yiddish lacked family songs for Purim. …
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 … of this melody appears in A.W. Binder’s “New Palestinean Folk Songs,” it is important to explore first the history of … library at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was “Six Songs from the Jewish …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … career began in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… researcher, and lecturer. He received his Ph.D. in musicology at the Hebrew University, and his M.A. and M.Mus … with the evaluation of “the gray area between the art, folk, and popular in the Israeli song.” His research … and entrance examinations, and works as a researcher at the Jewish Music Research Center. Dr. Bar-Eitan is the head of …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … 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
… of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original … and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … ha-mayim,” has the indication “ne’imah ‘amamit,” i.e. “folk melody.” While only Idelsohn has documented the …
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 … with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The … Another song regarding the Great Fire: http://www.jewishfolksongs.com/he/el-dio-la-mate-esta-grega Footnotes: 1. …
Bernardo Feuer
… and secondary school in his hometown and was drawn to music from an early age. Feuer learned the basics of music … exclusively synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original language …

Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… we encounter the fateful question if this kind of music making is at all in the nature of man, and therefore … research. … 9480 … Vocal … Vocal music … Polyphony … Folk music … Instruments … Percussion … Definitions … Monophony … Jewish … Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in …