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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story

… Palestinian and European Zionism, mid-century Yiddish secular culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even … Jews with a religious background but would be meaningful to secular Jews as well. Traditionally, the “Yom Gilah” – the … the Yiddish world with its unique combination of secular, religious, Zionist, and radical ideologies found …

Four Melodies for Four Questions

… shirenu: Hebrew melodies old and new, religious and secular (New York: Hebrew Publishing House, 1939). Nathanson …

“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies

… atmosphere of the Sabbath through to the beginning of the “secular” weekdays. Like most havdalah piyyutim , “Eli …

The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music

… satirical poem straddles the borderline between medieval secular and sacred poetry characteristic of the Andalusian … Hebrew websites respectively dedicated to religious and secular songs included Kikhlot yeini in their databases … melody, part of his concert repertoire. True to the dual secular/religious nature of our song, as noted previously, …

Bernardo Feuer

… culture through the preservation and transmission of their secular music. This choir was part of the Hazomir Cultural …

In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover

… and innocently charming” adding that “the song betrays a secular socialist slant on the traditional Passover … period Jewish cultural memory is refracted anew through secular prisms and taught to children as part of … of earlier Yiddish repertoires, some items of this overtly secular repertoire survived in songsters such Bugatch’s …