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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… frontier with Belarus, and his exposure to the Haskalah and modern German culture that spread to the new Jewish … acquainted with a vast array of popular and traditional Yiddish songs, as well as, later on, the new “rebirth” songs … he moved into public life, in Jerusalem and on the national stage. Geshuri became a member of the Jerusalem City Council …
Mordekhai Hershman
… Hershman sang as meshorer with Zeidel Rovner in Berdychiv (Yiddish: Barditshev) and when his voice changed from alto to … showered on the greatest starts of the opera and concert stage, including quotations from critics of the European … have become classics and are frequently performed by modern Chazanim. Eilu Devarim , Shma Koleinu and Aneinu are …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… it acquired exemplify the mechanisms through which Jewish modernity articulated itself on the basis of German … a pioneer Zionist journal edited by the Zionist leader and Yiddishist Nathan Birnbaum. Titled ‘Sehnsucht,’ the poem is … titled Bimkom ha-erez . It seems that at in the early stages of oral transmission the original German song was …
Had Gadya
… in a German Haggadah (Hamburg-Altona, 1751). A more modern version, with English translation. The Study of H ad … this manuscript version the song appears in Aramaic with a Yiddish-German translation (in Hebrew characters). This … also an Yiddish translation) before reaching the final stage, the one known until today, in the 1590 Prague …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… a German Haggadah (Hamburg-Altona, 1751) followed by a more modern version with English translation. The Study of H … this manuscript version the song appears in Aramaic with a Yiddish-German translation (in Hebrew characters). This … also an Yiddish translation) before reaching the final stage, the one known until today, in the 1590 Prague …
Chasidic in America
… actress, Florence Weiss. They performed it on the theater stage, in concerts in North and South America, and in the 1937 Yiddish film The Cantor’s Son (Dem Khazns Zundyl) . O ne of … complex and ambiguous meeting point between traditional and modern culture which was strongly felt by Jews in the United …
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 … in Belz, Bessarabia, and sang on Italian and Russian opera stages. At the advice of the poet Haim Nahman Bialik, an … their performance on Kremer’s recording. Listening to this modern version, one can hear that the structure of the song …
Karev Yom
… deep baritone voice, Bikel reprimanded Gazit in highbrow modern Hebrew by saying that “the Hebrew language is still … and folk song revivalist. Music reviewers stresses his Yiddish or international repertoire. Bikel made a career out … cosmopolitanism by assiduously playing the “other” on the stage or on the screen, exploiting his virtuosic capacity to …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… It also exemplifies the elusiveness of the symbols of modern nation-states. From the outset, we note that this is … Hebrew, ‘Zeruvabel’ by [Moshe Leib] Lilienblum, written in Yiddish and translated into Hebrew. Within the play songs … assumed Sephardic link of Hatikvah was pursued in an early stage by Rabbi David de Sola Pool of the Shearith Israel …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… wrote back in 1984 the internationally renowned Yiddish singer Nechama Lifshitz in a memorial note dedicated to her late stage partner, the Yiddish performer, narrator, composer and … … Archival recordings … Bukovina … Historical recordings … Modern Yiddish stage … Non-religious Yiddish music … USSR … …