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Atah Ehad

… zemer for the Sabbath, a Hassidic niggun and a Yiddish folksong. In addition, some Ashkenazi tunes were reincarnated as Zionist songs, becoming Israeli folk songs and folk dances in both …

… also found at the end of the Haggadah, it is a cumulative song, with each verse adding another motif to the story. It … a kid bought by the “father” (of the singer-subject of the song), which in the next verse is eaten by the cat, which is … article by Menachem Zvi (Harry) Fox, “On the history of the songs ‘E h ad mi yode’a’ and ‘ H ad Gadya’ in Israel and …

Had Gadya in Israeli Culture

… On the eve of Passover, our Song of the Month for April 2014 is dedicated to H ad Gadya … One only kid [young goat]), one of the most popular songs sung at the Passover seder in some of its contemporary …

In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song

… radicalism in late nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, our Song of the Month is “In Zaltsikn Yam” (In the Salty Sea), an early-twentieth-century Yiddish workers' song [See also Song of the Month for May 2010 ]. The poem … the Bund’s anthem. Despite the popularity of these two songs among Bund members and the strong rhetoric of “In …

Bella Schaechter-Gottesman

… Ukraine). Her mother sang a wide repertoire of folksongs (and is considered by Bella as a Yiddish folksinger). … and she later began publishing Yiddish poetry. As a songwriter, she has composed Yiddish songs with her own …

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

… The album includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews used to sing in events … the JMRC and one of the most prominent scholars of the folksong in Ladino worldwide. These CDs summarize the …

Chasidic in America

… The song ‘Chasidic in America’ was originally sung by cantor … credited as director). Oysher and Weiss also recorded the song in 1938 with Dave Tarras, the legendary klezmer … exactly the same structural places in some of Armstrong's songs. This gesture situates the song in an ambivalent …