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Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between Synagogue and Church
… with two tasks: (1) to examine the concept of 'national folksong' and its applicability in the instance of the … the attitude of Western music historians to the question of Jewish influence on early Church music. As will be seen, we … … Transmission … Church … Synagogue … Church music … Jewish … Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between …
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 … Another song regarding the Great Fire: http://www.jewishfolksongs.com/he/el-dio-la-mate-esta-grega Footnotes: 1. …
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 … Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in Jewish communities on Purim, especially in Germany, is one … the “folk” one became widespread, indeed as a Hebrew folksong, in the Yishuv. Later on, in the young State of …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a performing stage, even though major … our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Purim brider' from the Ruth Rubin's archival collection, "Folksongs and Folklore 1948-1967 – Holidays' Songs – Purim." … repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many American Jewish songsters at least since Samuel E. Goldfarb’s … are a testimony to the presence of Rivesman’s song as a folksong in the American Yiddish Purim repertoire, …

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 … at the same time when the text was being printed as a “folksong” in Meirovitz’s ‘Shirei ‘am-tziyyon’ (to be sung to …
Karev Yom
… of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War … sound and the packaging of Bikel’s album catered to this Jewish market and its imagination of the new Israel. The …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… created a number of songs about poverty and how the Jewish community “dealt with economic problems on the … a live performance humorously equated this song with the Jewish equivalent of calling the police, saying, “This is … Friedrich Hofmeister. Noy, Dov and Meir Noy. 1971. Yiddish Folksongs from Galicia . Jerusalem: Hebrew University. …

Jüdische Volksmusik: Eine mitteleuropäische Geistesgeschichte
… by scholars and folklorists, mostly of introductions to Jewish folk song collections, arranged by topics and … of the development of the modern conceptualization of Jewish folksongs in Central European learned circles of musicians …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… Month is dedicated to “E h ad mi yodea” the famous serial folksong added to the Passover haggadah . This article, … the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish traditions. “E h ad mi yodea” is a cumulative song. … – God; two – the two tablets of the covenant; three – the Jewish patriarchs; four – the Jewish matriarchs; five – the …