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Bazetsens (LKT)

… rhymed verses sung by the badkhn or marshalik [wedding poet/master of ceremonies] to a contemplative musical …

Zalman Reyzn

… of the YIVO Institute. His brother ia the author and poet Avraham Reyzen. Full biography: Avraham Novershtern, …

A piyyut by Bar Abun

… Gebirol … Paytanim … Spain … France … Andalusia … Andalus … Poetry … Medieval … Israel Abrahams … A piyyut by Bar Abun …

… works for children, and she later began publishing Yiddish poetry. As a songwriter, she has composed Yiddish songs with … one of her most famous being Harbstlied . … Yiddish poet and songwriter … Ashkenazi … Folksong … Holocaust … …

In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song

… Rappoport [1863-1920]) the Jewish writer, ethnographer, poet, and radical. The song's alternative title is “Tsum … Perl fun der yidisher poezie (Pearls of Yiddish Poetry). In 1945 an abridged version of the poem, featuring … the Bund as the savior of the Jewish workers. An additional poetic connection to the Bund was An-Sky’s poem “ Di Shvue ” …

Atah Ehad

… is waning and the Sabbath is coming to its conclusion. The poet Haim Nachman Bialik identified Atah E h ad 's air of … in his recollection of Bialik’s Oneg Shabbat: 'The great poet Bialik, remembering the sacred impressions which the …

Yiddish – The Mame Loshn (Yiddish - the Mother Tongue)

… aspects of the culture are discussed such as film, poetry and music. There are a few scenes in the film …

Para Para

… Parateinu (“Our Cow”), was written by the Hebrew teacher, poet and dramatist Itzhak Katznelson (1886-1944) who, as … in 1988 as part of a special volume dedicated to Hebrew poetry. The cow is first mentioned in the fourth and last … verbatim at the very end of the poem introduced by the poet as an ironic kinah (“lament”, “dirge”). Below follows a …

Andalusian Nuba

… to note that alongside the music, there is an elaborate poetic corpus, which is a crucial element of the Nuba, … is also referred as 'Al-Haik' or 'Haik' in short, after the poet Muhammad Al-Haik, who, in the 18 th century, collected … whatever repertoire remained in the memories of the poets and musicians of his time in order to save and …

Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German

… itself on the basis of German aesthetics, in this case poetic and musical. Dort wo die Zeder also shows how the … Dr. Itzhak Feld (1862-1922), was a German-speaking Jewish poet and lawyer born in Lvov (Lemberg) and a member of the … early in the twentieth-century. Various attributions of poetic and musical authorship, sometimes contradictory, …