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The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… to the use of maqam . The use of maqam for liturgical poetry and song was based throughout the 17 th century on … the Passover Seder), two or three hours before sunrise, poetry emerges from the Ades synagogue in the Na h laot … the baqqashot piyyutim . The texts were written by various poets, beginning in the 19 th century, and composition of …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… in order to establish what the essential parameters of the poetic structure are in order to find out a possible source. … “E h ad mi yodea” to compose secular songs with a similar poetic structure. This includes, first of all, a comedic …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… Ashkenazi melody that, in the early 1920s, was set by the poet Levin Kipnis to the lyrics of his song “ H ag Purim” …
Alicia Svigals
… Quartet, playwrights Tony Kushner and Eve Ensler, the late poet Allen Ginsburg, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led …
Marsh (LKT)
… for singing. Marches are introduced during the services to poetic texts, such as Lekhah dodi and El adon for the …
Popular Poetry of the Russian Jews
… … New York … Americana Germanica … … 2:2 … 1989 … Jewish poetry … Russian jewry … Ashkenaz … Leo Wiener … Popular Poetry of the Russian Jews …
Leo Wiener
… Weiner translated Yiddish songs and poems. The poet he valued most was Maurice Rosenfeld and he introduced …
Avraham Reyzen
… Avraham Reyzen was a Yiddish writer, poet and editor, and the elder brother of the Yiddishist … he wrote their lyrics in Zemereshet . … Yiddish writer, Poet & Editor … 0 … Literature … Poet … Editor … translator … Avraham Reyzen …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… about Hanukkah represent the individual reflections by poets and singers on the holiday's themes and the stories … mother, Aliza Greenblatt, a well-respected Yiddish poet and songwriter in her own right. It was through his close connection to the poet and socialist Greenblatt that Guthrie became more …
Kale bazetsen (LKT)
… usually performed by the musicians and the badkhn (wedding poet/jester), who improvised formulaic rhymed verses …