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‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)
… characters, both historical and fictional (like some of the American Jewish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer's characters of … of watching your back. While at the same time, today in North America, assimilating. […] I am thinking about the term …
Chasidic in America
… The song ‘Chasidic in America’ was originally sung by cantor Moishe Oysher and … 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 …
Hora (LKT)
… form of the genre among East European Jews, is common in northeastern Romania and among Bukovina Ukrainians. Among … [crooked dance, cf. Bulg. krivo horo ] and other terms. American-Jewish musicians often refer to it as ‘slow hora.’ …
Beroyges-tants
… generally the result of free improvisation... In Riteva [northwest of Kovno], Lithuania the ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ … another description, from a wedding of Lithuanian Jews in America, c. 1959:] The guests stand in a large circle with …
Bulgar (LKT)
… ethnic Bulgarian minority in Bessarabia and/or contact with north Bulgaria on the part of Bessarabian Gypsy musicians. A … One of the most common dance and tune genres of the American-Jewish repertoire, popular in parts of Eastern … popular, gradually became the most fashionable dance among American-Jewish immigrants from various geographical regions …
And Now We're All Brothers: Singing In Yiddish In Contemporary North America
… survey of the contemporary practice of Yiddish song in America, with emphasis on its relation to past traditions … Now We're All Brothers: Singing In Yiddish In Contemporary North America …
Karev Yom
… justification, his cosmopolitan persona or his career as an American theatre and movie actor, entertainer, and folk song … big hit for us. He was a working actor just starting out in America and on Broadway, but he was the pivot point for … differently, there was a demand for Israeli “products” in North American concentrations of Jews and Bikel was the …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… recordings throughout the European, Middle Eastern and American Jewish diasporas, was a crucial component in the … Palestine. In my home country [Maramureş county, today in northwest Rumania], we used to sing in the choir the … article on the barabano to a widespread folk melody from north-east Italy documented since at least 1608 that shows …
Assaf Shelleg
… in which art music was written by or about Jews, in Europe, North America, British Palestine, and Israel. Shelleg’s …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Germany, West of the Rhine river (See image no. 1) and in North Italy (see image no. 2), and an “alternative” tune … tune are alike given places of honor in both the northern and southern rituals [i.e. Ashkenazi and Sephardic … Bookland . Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1920, pp. 97-101. Includes the translation of the …