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Society for Jewish Folk Music
… and piano, with lyrics from a poem by the Israeli national poet, Haim Nachman Bialik. The poem, rich in Biblical reference, expresses the poet’s desolation and loss of faith – “They say there is …
Seliha-Selihot
… many were written and their style developed. [1] Among the poets who wrote Seliha' s are Sa'adyah Gaon, Gershom b. … 1038-1089), a halakhic authority, Biblical commentator and poet, this Iberian order of selihot remained in continuous …
Contrafactum
… words. This technique was used in 12 th century Spain, as poets and Paytanim would write above the first line of their …
Hay ram galeh
… into sacred Hebrew ones. Halevi is certainly not a trained poet but rather a performer thoroughly involved in the … as Halevi. Almog Bahar, one of Israeli’s outspoken modern poets of Sephardic pedigree, discusses the phenomenon of … performer, theatre stage versus synagogue, and so on. The poet Ahmad Rami wrote an Arabic love song in which the lover …
With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… … Yemenite community … Israeli Music … Singing … Poetry … Diaspora … Yemen Jewery … Rhythm … Groove … Naomi …
Cute Boy, Charming Girl
… of the twentieth century. It includes poems by canonical poets that were set to music by professional composers, songs by amateur poets and composers, translated songs, and borrowed … Music … Zemer Ivri … Field recordings … Field work … Hebrew poets … Israeli poets … Efrat Leibowitz … Talila Eliram … …
Ten Zemirot Ami: New Melodies for Piyyutim from the Aleppo Mahzor (1527)
… This unique maḥzor contains many piyyutim composed by local poets and sung by the community during yearly and life cycle …
Hayrana Laih
… written by Ahmed Rami (1892-1981), the popular Egyptian poet who was the main songwriter for Umm Kalthoum. Daoud …
Eicha Yashva Badad
… arrived to the new State of Israel. In these verses, the poet laments the fall of Zion and the exile which followed, …
Yechidi Laderech Li Etse'a
… I set out on the road,' wrote Lermontov, the great Russian poet, in 1841. This line has been sung many times, as it …