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A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… Yiddish songs addressing the hardships of a poverty ridden life that include songs that bemoan the troubles of the … 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 …
Arbie Orenstein
… taught for 45 years, focusing on European music history and Jewish music. Arbie Orenstein is the author of two major … Letters. Orenstein also wrote an introductory essay on the life and work of A.Z. Idelsohn for the Dover reprint of Idelsohn's classic text, Jewish Music in Its Historical Development . He was the …
Karev Yom
… I am still living the life of those times… Theodore Bikel On October 2, 2014, … of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after … 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 … [sic] for example, is really characteristic of Jewish life in Europe, and full of Jewish feeling. The melody is …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is sung … h enna ceremony as part of the repertoire of Yemenite Jewish women singers. In Yemen, the separation of men and … as well as during events and ceremonies associated with the life cycle. However, the strictness of this gender-based …
Vivat
… with him in the middle, just as at a wedding in a little Jewish town.” [Nikolayev, Kherson province, afterwards the … ‘Az got vet gebn gezunt un lebn’ (‘If God Gives Health and Life’): ... Measures 9-12 reproduce exactly the beginning of …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… song, reflecting once again the intricate ways in which Jewish repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the … The recordings’ section of the Jacob Michael Collection of Jewish Music at the National Sound Archives of the Israel … References Brown, Arianne. 2007. The Khanzntes – The Life Stories of Sophie Kurtzer, Bas Sheva, Sheindele the …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… town of Jesberg near Kassel on March 14, 1841. However the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) places his birth place in … Professor J. Hess from Heidelberg; and (according to the Jewish Encyclopedia ) the “choir leader Benz,” who taught … unusual and certainly unique artifact of Jewish musical life in that community. The Klau Library, HUC-JIR/NY has …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… choir were perhaps his first efforts in what would be a life-long devotion to modern Hebrew song. In 1922 Binder … library at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was “Six Songs from the Jewish … popular “hit” but as Shnirele Perele, it has taken on a new life and become a core melody of contemporary Jewish …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… who wilt arraign The nations at thy judgment seat, With life and favor bless again Thy people prostrate at thy … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … also attested in several medieval manuscripts of the Roman Jewish rite available at the IMHM catalogue. The persistence …