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Bernardo Feuer
… Yiddish, workers’ songs, and choral symphonies drawn from popular repertoire. In addition, Feuer composed works … a Jewish folk choir with the aim of spreading Jewish culture through the preservation and transmission of their …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… great significance of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were sung to … dating from 1511 , [11] the story is mentioned within the popular homiletic work Tsene-rene (Elbaum and Turniansky … liturgical function. [12] Yudisher shtam enjoyed immense popularity in Ashkenazi society, as is evidenced by the …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… of the song and its catchy melody led to its reception and popularity as a “folk” song, at times deprived of any … them had immigrated. Against the paradigm whereas Yiddish culture had a “one-way” circulation, from the Old to the New … of Edelstadt’s songs in Eastern Europe, “Der arbeter.” The popularity of “Piramidn” in the Russian Empire and later on …
Moshe Attias
… Elmaghribi, who enjoyed both international recognition and popularity among the various communities in Israel, Mwijo … ethos of the Zionist movement and the Israeli culture that emerged from it. Even when he recorded in … “Hazarti Elaikh” (I Returned to You), or the immensely popular “ Zeh Lo Halom ” (It Is Not a Dream, recorded by …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… sacred and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth … only as a matter of citizenship but as a matter of popular or collective consciousness—was still a viable … land [stomp], forced us out of our homes [stomp], but our culture is something they cannot steal. When we stamp our …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, … (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 …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which … old recordings show, among many other matters, that widely popular songs from the turn of the 20th century are absent … from the EMI Archive Trust (1907-1912) , is one of the many popular Sephardi songs that have not entered the canon of …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… The Cheese and the Worms (1980 [1976]) — which explores popular culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the eyes of a … The Cheese and the Worms (1980 [1976]) — which explores popular culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the eyes …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… events and as a means of introducing tourists to Ethiopian culture. Traditional Ethiopian musical instruments including … national reincarnation, sparked both media interest and the popular imagination. … But the community underwent (and … which was focused on the Jewish aspects of the community’s culture, or alternatively, had sought to achieve public …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… century, becoming an emblematic signifier of modern Israeli culture. As Mazor has shown in his groundbreaking study, … thinking (expressed mostly in chordal melodic motifs) and popular urban rhythmic patterns to the Hassidic repertoire …