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The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… This article shows the crystallization of the prayer and singing style known as … of the Jewish communities exiled from Spain to the lands of Islam are found in the distant past. The singing of … were usually adaptations of popular Arabic and Turkish songs. The old style Ottoman-Jewish musical tradition was …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… This song of the month is a humorous Yiddish song about a robbery. It is … melody. 'A Gneyve' is part of a large repertoire of Yiddish songs addressing the hardships of a poverty ridden life that … Shaul and Pesach Marek. 1991. Yidishe folkslider in Rusland . Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press. Idelsohn, …
Karev Yom
… I am still living the life of those times… Theodore Bikel On October 2, … commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War II. … career as a professional singer was marked by his first landmark long-play of songs eventually titled Theodore Bikel …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… to a barrage of factual and fictional information that, in the Internet Age, circulates virally in diverse variants, … made in Iaşi (Rumania) in 1877 or in Zloczow (Galicia in Poland, today Zolochev in Ukraine) in 1878 (scholars are … scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… In the last Song of the Month we introduced the song for Purim … her unique, wide-ranging style, is in fact a suite of Purim songs. It opens with ‘Haint Iz Purim, Brider,’ which … today one of the boroughs of the town of Dęblin in Poland). The second song of the suite (starting at 5:35) is no …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in America – A. W. … called (in his spelling) “Na-aleh L’artsenu – On to Our Land.” Binder indicates that this is a Yemenite melody and …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other Biblical … today Lithuania, Belarus, Western Russia, Ukraine and Poland and is now widely practiced in Ashkenazi congregations … on Purim; and (6) one for the festive megillot —Song of Songs, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes—read on Passover, Shavuot, and …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… New Findings about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish … our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval … Seder from Notated Sources (1644-1945) (University of Maryland, 1980.) We have benefitted from her work in the writing …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Peleg, Sonja Wiedemann English translation: Courtney Blue The piyyut “Eli Eliyahu” is attributed to Rabbi Abraham Ibn … Europe. Toward the end of his life he wandered to England, and most likely passed away there. Throughout his … during the Sabbath. Therefore, a prominent motif in these songs is the figure of Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu), whose …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Sacharov - 2012 … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original performance context or with their melodies of … appears in the JMRC CD Nights of Canaan: Early Songs of the Land of Israel (Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel 12). …