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Woody Guthrie's Hanukah Songs
… Within his vast oeuvre there are a handful of songs with Jewish themes, and a few of them are specifically related to Hanukah. Guthrie himself was not Jewish; however his second wife, Marjorie Mazia Greenblatt, … content of the holiday and are similar to countless other folksongs and children's rhymes in which dance instructions …
Semele (LKT)
… dance. Cahan introduces some German folk songs as well as Jewish ones in which we find a similar dance. However, the … . “No. 254 [of the Marek-Ginsburg 1901 collection]. A folksong. ‘Semele-tants’ must have been a lewd dance. This …
Doyne (LKT)
… other contemplative, free-meter genres in the East European Jewish tradition, including cantorial recitatives, the kale … but structured melody for listening, from the Romanian-Jewish repertoire. Often performed for guests at the banquet … included). “The doina is at home on Rumanian soil; it is a folksong style of striking sound, plaintive and in …
Kozatske (LKT)
… citation, you get the full reference. “In the [Yiddish folksong] Hatskele , a poor aunt asks the musicians to play … and cannot pay for it. The first part of the melody is of Jewish origin, the latter part is Russian and in keeping … 28 . “ ‘Kozatz’keh : ’ This dance was popular both among Jewish Ukraine and Jewish Poland. There is nothing to …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many American Jewish songsters at least since Samuel E. Goldfarb’s … the complex process through which modern favorites in the Jewish repertoire were constructed only in the course of the … are a testimony to the presence of Rivesman’s song as a folksong in the American Yiddish Purim repertoire, …