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Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Words , 1946]: This research was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel and the … in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for … piece throughout the vast Jewish settlement in Ukraine, Poland and Russia. Thus, recent ethnographic work among …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… إلنا خل / فوق النخل) “Fog al-Nakhal,” is nowadays one of the most popular songs in the Middle East. It is a muwwashshah, “girdle” … of Israel to look eastward to “strengthen the desired land of [their] fathers” in supplication to God for …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing … southern Israel where he recorded new immigrants from the Island of Djerba (Tunisia), a community that became a focus of … the Ashkenazi repertoire of zemiroth Shabbat (Sabbath table songs; for an example see here ), which he recorded and …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… The collection of historical Jewish field recordings at the … with biblical cantillation, prayers and piyyutim (songs of religious content) for Sabbaths, Holydays and life … earliest recordings of Shirei Eretz Yisrael (Songs of the Land of Israel). Lurie’s informants differ, as far as we can …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… He wrote at that time: “A few days ago, we spoke over the phone about ‘Ehad mi yode’a’ in Aramaic. I am interested … Seder night. My father learned it in his childhood in Poland. I do not know from whom he heard it. The text and the … making of this song. Translating the beloved Passover folksongs added to the Haggadah sometime during the late …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… Bresler , Judith R. Cohen and Risto Pekka Pennanen In 2008 the Jewish Music Research Centre released a 4-CD package … from the early twentieth century, that production became a landmark in the revised appreciation of Sephardic music … In the future Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs from the EMI Archive Trust (1907-1912) will be …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a … and the fragrance of the fields and the vineyards, and the songs of the real shepherd who longs for his beloved [not … with voices, and most importantly, how did they come to the Land of Israel? -- Those who did not see the Bible in its …
Shir Hanamal
… In the Israeli imagination, the Mediterranean Sea evokes at … western frontier, the venue from which one arrives to the Land of Israel, as well as the vital connection to the outside world, tangible or imaginary. For this reason songs about boats, sea travel and ports are also conspicuous …
Gilu ha-Galilim (Rejoice Galileans)
… Aliya (1904-1914) song which became an integral part of the historical repertoire of Hebrew song. Both native-born … with two additional verses. … Nights in Canaan: Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1881-1946) … Folk songs … Halutzim … Land … …
שיר הנמל
… In the Israeli imagination, the Mediterranean Sea evokes at … western frontier, the venue from which one arrives to the Land of Israel, as well as the vital connection to the outside world, tangible or imaginary. For this reason songs about boats, sea travel and ports are also conspicuous …