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Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… arrives, we dedicate the Song of the Month to a very popular Eastern European Ashkenazi melody that, in the early … repertoire, songs about Jewish festivals were particularly popular and remained part of the festive repertoire sung …
Shrayer
… is also widespread in Moldavia among the non-Jewish village population (they call the tune srayer ). We would need to …
Sirba
… few recordings and transcriptions, but evidently it was not popular in New York at that time...” Phillips 1996ab, p. 178 …
Skotshne/Skochne
… of Bondashevke; Example 28 is one. Such frejlaxs are very popular in that village and are sung for dancing. Bystanders …
Tekhies hameysim-tants (LKT)
… this event is no doubt the ‘tekhiat ha-metim’ dance, or in popular language ‘tekhies hameysim tants’ . A pair of …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… the JMRC, no. 169, pp. 397-402). This version has become a popular song among Yiddish and klezmer musicians over the … song: “Among children, the number songs were particularly popular, and their counting of a particular number of things …
Vals (LKT)
… of course polkas and mazurkas and waltzes... [which were popular] in the ‘30s.” [Warsaw, Poland, 1930s]. Alpert … [= Beregovski/Slobin 1982, p. 533] . “The waltz was also popular among Jews and was danced exclusively at weddings.” … Bulgar, Pas d’Espagne , Vingerka , Waltz , forms of popular Russian, Polish, and Rumanian dances.” EncyJud 1971, …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… The prayer melodies were usually adaptations of popular Arabic and Turkish songs. The old style … said, “entered hearts and souls” and became revered and popular among the Sephardic and Eastern Jews in Jerusalem. …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… female performers to sing them on the stage. She was widely popular in Europe and later in the United States, where she …
Karev Yom
… of the duos and trios of Israeli singers that became so popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s, especially the … modernized Haggadot of several kibbutzim. Several Israeli popular artists, such as Yaffa Yarkoni and Shuli Natan, … century do not contain a melody for ‘Karev yom.’ If such a popular melody for ‘Karev yom’ existed then in Israel, would …