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Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… the identification of texts’ author and an additional musical version, very different from the one we released … redemption, a topic which has maintained relevant in the modern period, especially for compositions for festive … by Sh. Shalom reveals the musical abyss separating diverse Jewish sectors cohabiting in very close proximity in …
Moyshelekh Un Shloymelekh (part 2)
… Union College. It was published in New York (by Hensley Music Co.: Metro Music Co.) in 1966. Papernikoff's text portrays the tender Jewish children of Bialik during the Holocaust. They do not … and Leahs, not only Moyshes and Shlomos, as part of a more modern view. Israel Alter's melody is perhaps influenced by …
Hayrana Laih
… is popular in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana … played a fundamental role in the creation of the Egypt’s modern music, and was a colleague of major composers such as … Music Conference he was recognized as a leading figure of modern Egyptian music. [2] His songs and compositions were …
Ahavat ‘Olamim
… in 2010. This is the third disc in the Contemporary Jewish Music series produced by the Jewish Music Research Centre. … and educator Yair Harel, Ahavat ‘olamim represents a modern journey into the depths of the Andalusian Jewish …
Cute Boy, Charming Girl
… Cute Boy, Charming Girl: Children’s Songs of the Modern Hebrew Nation(1882-1948) presents Hebrew songs written for and sung by Jewish children in pre-state Israel. The selection … It includes poems by canonical poets that were set to music by professional composers, songs by amateur poets and …
Hay ram galeh
… Israel Najara . H ay Ram Galeh is a contrafactum of the modern Egyptian song Hayrana Laih by Daoud Hosni that … of Jerusalem. The Ades synagogue was founded in 1901 by the Jewish immigrants from Aleppo (northern Syria) and since its … it became major hub for liturgical and paraliturgical music in the modern western section of Jerusalem. It also …

Society for Jewish Folk Music
… on the eve of the Russian Orthodox Easter, two Russian musicians met in an encounter that was to have impacts on … Borodin and Moussorgsky – was introduced to the Russian Jewish composer and music critic Joel Engel . Stasov … Bloch and others. They laid much of the foundation of modern art music written in Palestine and later Israel, as …
A Bookshelf On Top of the Sky: 12 Stories about John Zorn
… Directed by Claudia Heuermann. John Zorn is a Jewish American composer who has been active in the New York music scene since the mid 1970s. During that period, Zorn's … free jazz, hardcore punk music, soundtracks, Jewish music, modern art, surf music, and countless other styles and …
Elohim Eshala
… They formed an ensemble specializing on Israeli “folk music” called “Oranim Tzabar” playing arrangements by … exoticism” that captivated at the time the American Jewish audience. It is clear that the voices of Shoshana … of Israel art music, i.e. that of a cosmopolitan, radical modernist detached from the local national concerns, this …
‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)
… playing in 2010 and are a self-proclaimed ‘100% Trans Jewish band.’ One definition to the term transgender can be … compositions that combine, among other genres, punk music, polkas, cantorial singing, and Jewish melodies … to these examples appearing in the canonical Jewish texts, modern authors have likened different aspects of Judaism to …