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Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… singers on the holiday's themes and the stories associated with it. These include, to name only a few, songs by Morris … sung on the recording but rather appears in his published lyrics). Musically, there is not much that differentiates … twelve-song album that includes newly composed melodies to lyrics that Nora found in 1997, adaptations of the two …
Bella Schaechter-Gottesman
… Bella Schaechter-Gottesman was born in Vienna, and moved with her family, as an infant, to Cernauti, Romania (today … spent World War II in the Cernauti Ghetto with her husband Jonas Gottesman. After the war they spent a … a songwriter, she has composed Yiddish songs with her own lyrics, which are performed by leading Yiddish singers, one …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… end of the Passover Haggadah. It is a cumulative song, with each verse adding another motif to the story. It begins … singer and song-writer Angelo Branduardi in 1976. The lyrics of Alla fiera dell’est were written by Branduardi's … great success in Italy and abroad, including in Israel. The lyrics of Branduardi's song are almost identical to H ad …
Para Para
… JMRC’s website team. Text It is uncertain who wrote the lyrics of Para Para and for this reason the song appeared in … provided. This is a slightly expanded version of the text, with four, instead of three couplets. New literary motifs … version. The melody here is in, E minor, in double meter with in a rapid rhythmic movement in eight notes, and …
Israeli folksongs
… see below. The genre of Israeli folksongs amalgamates within it songs that deal mostly with themes that the majority of the Jewish population of … Shoshana Damari ; and poets whose words were used for the lyrics of the songs, such as, Natan Alterman, Ya'akov Orland …
Communal singing
… singing was spontaneous, and the participants could sing without the help of an instructor or leader. When the … developed. Spontaneous communal singing continued with the youth movements, and from there it reached the … who sings with the communal singing instructor as the lyrics are either projected from slides onto a screen, or …
Abyadi Ana
… by expert women. Nowadays, grooms’ hands are also painted with henna. In the past this elaborate ritual span over an … The Jews of Morocco share patterns of the Henna ceremony with their co-territorial Berber and Muslim neighbors. [2] … Moroccan Jewish women to accompany wedding ceremonies. The lyrics of these songs usually refer to the event in which …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… to the 'high' culture of canonical texts in Hebrew along with an affinity to oral folk culture - as well as seeing … and more, and they think it is enough to say these rhymes with intention [Kavanah]. But these rhymes hardly imply the … 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)
… bodies at all. Some transgender people identify wholly with one preferred gender category (male or female) that is … the month is the song ‘Der nayer al chet’ (attribution of lyrics by Morris Rund, music by Sholom Secunda needs to be … Official website: Includes biographies of the band members, lyrics to all of their songs, links to most of the press …
Brakha Tzefira
… After the death of her parents, she was brought to live with her uncle in Jerusalem, but fled from his house at the … a light touch at the piano, and was familiar with Hebrew lyrics, although from a traditional galut (Diaspora) … with composers on the melodies, or with poets on the lyrics. Her songs based on Arab or Bedouin melodies include …