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Tants nign (LKT)
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … (Mazor-Hadju 1974). Dance tunes are performed mainly at weddings and rejoicing festivals such as Simha Torah and Lag … in the modern era. The dance-song was preserved by the Jewish masses a long time after the social dances had …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… The collection of historical Jewish field recordings at the Vernadsky National Library of … the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … example, the transcription made by Idelsohn to the popular wedding song "Maq’helot ‘am", a poem by Mordecai Abadi of …
Linked by Melody: Gibraltar/Moroccan Songs for Passover (and Shavuoth)
… Songs for the Year Cycle in our series Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel. … Mose salió de Misraim …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of …

Kozatske (LKT)
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … a poor aunt asks the musicians to play her a kazatskele (a wedding dance of Russian origin), even though she is poor … and cannot pay for it. The first part of the melody is of Jewish origin, the latter part is Russian and in keeping …
"Ayumah be-har hamor" (The Beloved on the mountain of myrrh)
… the way in which it has been assimilated into Israeli music over a period of generations. The hallmark of personal …

Steiger
… A term in use in the European Jewish musical tradition to refer to the different modal types of … or the leader of a service. The research of the traditional music of Nus h ei Hatefila only began after the melodies had …
In Ale Gasn\ Hey Hey Daloy Politsey
… Yiddish words English translation Music … 85 … 728 … In honor of May Day, this month's song of … month is a Yiddish song about the political struggles of Jewish socialists, communists, and even anarchists, in … for a documentary movie called Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists (1980). He recorded the song again for the …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … Song”. For a start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take … heart of what became Berlin’s true genius and of what was Jewish – or at least ‘Jew-ish’ – about Berlin’s life and …