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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 …
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 …
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 …
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) …
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 …
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 …
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
… the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … even though major ceremonies of Judaism which include music take place within the circle of the immediate or … 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 … from B’nai Jeshrun: http://www.bj.org/spiritual-life/music-of-bj/invitation-to-piyyut-na/el-eliyahu/ Literary … asks for a revelation from God or from the Messiah. Music: Origins and Performances The piyyut “Eli Eliyahu” is …
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 … and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … Hebrew websites respectively dedicated to religious and secular songs included Kikhlot yeini in their databases …