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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 …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… major codifiers of the South German synagogue liturgy in musical notation and yet his name does not appear … by the archive of the city of Speyer, informs us that his music collection was destroyed during the conflagration. … Fränkel (1921) reports on a large amount of sacred and secular compositions that Rosenhaupt composed. Apparently …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … did rely on the Bible. However, the likeness is that a secularized Hebrew poet writing a nationalistic poem in the … and other liturgical purposes, appears to be foreign and secular, as it main theme occurs in Smetana’s symphonic poem …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… focusing on changes introduced to the text and the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish … to use the basic structure of “E h ad mi yodea” to compose secular songs with a similar poetic structure. This … beginning of the Passover song, applying it humorously to secular objects, up to the number five.” (Rubin, 1963: 58) …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… Ancis for four part men's choir. New York: Transcontinental Music Corporation, 1945. Example 5 Moisei Beregovski, … no. 114. Example 6 “Sabbathlichter” (lyrics: S. Rosenblum, music (!): J. Engel), Juedische Klaenge (Beilage zum … socio-cultural shift in the way Purim is conceived by the secular Israeli Jewish society, from a religious festival to …
Debka (LKT)
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … or refer to the term in question. It also indicates whether musical notation or sound recordings are included in the … form and the steps (if not the music) entered the Israeli secular repertoire in the same way it entered the Hassidic …
Chasidic in America
… Olshanetsky , the composer who is credited with the music of The Cantor’s Son . This virtuosic, wordless song … Temple University Press, 1995. Netsky, Hankus. “Secular Jewish Musical Expression – Is Nothing Sacred?” in Jewish Secularity: The Search for Roots and the Challenges of …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… the modern fate of the song with in contemporary Israeli musical repertoire. H ad Gadya was incorporated to the … its persecutors. A contemporary take on H ad Gadya and its musical setting Along with its various literary … in the ancient practices of the rabbis, in the nominally secular kibbutzim is a rooted phenomenon in Israeli culture …
Had Gadya
… the modern fate of the song with in contemporary Israeli musical repertoire. H ad Gadya was incorporated to the … its persecutors. A contemporary take on H ad Gadya and its musical setting Along with its various literary … in the ancient practices of the rabbis, in the nominally secular kibbutzim is a rooted phenomenon in Israeli …
Atah Ehad
… songs, becoming Israeli folk songs and folk dances in both secular and religious contexts. The song of the month, Atah … see below. Although Idelsohn can be credited as the first musician to introduce this melody to the Zionist repertory … schools of the Zionist elites in Tel Aviv, and in the secular youth movements as part of the 'Shirei yom shishi' …