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A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… This song of the month is a humorous Yiddish song about a robbery. It is also known as “Bay Mein … being the names of a second version with slightly different lyrics and a completely different melody. 'A Gneyve' is part … (nine stanzas) appeared in Yehuda Leib Cohen's Yiddishe Folkslieder mit Melodien (1957), where the text appears …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… 1962, p. 168, no. 114. Example 6 “Sabbathlichter” (lyrics: S. Rosenblum, music (!): J. Engel), Juedische … set to a variety of religious poems in Hebrew and Yiddish. It was also featured in many publications of Jewish folk songs in the early 20th century as a wordless Hassidic …
Sher
… 1982, p. 526, n. 18] . “Gathering data on Jewish folk dances, and especially on the widespread frejlaxs and … We know of cases in which Ukrainian peasants took up Yiddish frejlaxs and šers . The šer is also widespread in … of the old Polish national dances, the Polonaise. As far as lyrics go, they are part of a longer song actually sung by …
Polonaise
… 1996a, pp. 16-17 . “It can also happen that a dance has a Yiddish name and the melody for the dance is borrowed from … that among our large masses, for a long time now the folkdance has had been accompanied by singing and song; and … of the old Polish national dances, the Polonaise. As far as lyrics go, they are part of a longer song actually sung by …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… was one of the United States' great and prolific folk singers. Many of his songs dealt with the plight of the … from Marjorie's mother, Aliza Greenblatt, a well-respected Yiddish poet and songwriter in her own right. It was through … sung on the recording but rather appears in his published lyrics). Musically, there is not much that differentiates …
Bella Schaechter-Gottesman
… Chernivtsi, Ukraine). Her mother sang a wide repertoire of folksongs (and is considered by Bella as a Yiddish folksinger). Schaechter-Gottesman spent World War II … a songwriter, she has composed Yiddish songs with her own lyrics, which are performed by leading Yiddish singers, one …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… this manuscript version the song appears in Aramaic with a Yiddish-German translation (in Hebrew characters). This … Gadye),” The Study of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Yiddish Folklore and Literature 1 (1954), pp. 214-218. Shmeruk’s … singer and song-writer Angelo Branduardi in 1976. The lyrics of Alla fiera dell’est were written by Branduardi's …
Israeli folksongs
… is a summarized version of the full artice about Israeli folksongs by Talila Eliram. To read the full article, see … Shoshana Damari ; and poets whose words were used for the lyrics of the songs, such as, Natan Alterman, Ya'akov Orland … from other traditions, such as Russian, Hassidic, Yiddish, Arabic, and Greek. In the media, these songs are …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… The Yiddish language, which probably began to develop around the … influenced by Slavic languages. Both the language and the folksongs, like many other elements of Ashkenazi culture, … as an element that organizes the deliverance of the lyrics and designs the boundaries of the …
‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)
… sorry, It’s Yom Kippur by the Brooklyn based band Schmekel (Yiddish for a small penis). The band comprises four members, … invites the listener to get up and dance a hora (an Israeli folk dance, apparently not a rare occurrence at a Schmekel … the month is the song ‘Der nayer al chet’ (attribution of lyrics by Morris Rund, music by Sholom Secunda needs to be …