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Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019…

Freylekhs
… Yiddish term, popularly used to refer to a joyful Niggun, and is still … Klezmer repertoire in Eastern Europe, and were the most popular amongst the Dance tunes . Support for this …
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 …
Hora
… style of the Israeli Hora, was adopted from one of the popular figures of the Freylekhs . Although, from watching …
Avraham Soltes
… The Music of Israel , on WQXR. In this increasingly popular program, week after week, he interwove the threads …
5. Mi-Pi El (De Boca del Dio)
… Syria and Iraq and its reception more at the level of the popular masses. The theme of ‘Mi-pi El’ is the nobility of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… (despite Karnes’s claim that this song is unique). It was popularized during Israel’s 1948 War as “ Hafinjan ” (“The … songs sung by Holocaust survivors. The setting of the popular American melody and Hebrew verse was therefore not a … #1163 ). [11] See the notes at http://a-pesni.org/popular20/kazkolyb.htm . The Cossack lullaby has also a …
Elio Piattelli
Biography by Pasquale Troia
Choirmaster of the Tempio Maggiore (Great Synagogue) in…