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A Recovered Voice from the Past
… of the Jewish past have moved far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, … that Shoshana whose health had not fully recovered accompany them back to Johannesburg where the climate would be … Hebrew presses were located in this small bustling alley. [17] According to Idelsohn’s own testimony he was …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… into this text his own vision of Jewish history and destiny as well as his take on prophecy and genius. This is … one can later on find the talents [5] who develop and expand this idea among the people until [the people] finally … love, Zion and Jerusalem of the lower world, and hills and valleys and the fragrance of the fields and the vineyards, …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Jazz , Charles Hersch has written an informative and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should … as it emerged from some of the Jewish songwriters of Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville, most notably from George Gershwin. In …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… Introduction It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain road that winds down … record label Baidaphon, the largest non-European record company active in the Middle East during the phonograph era; … [29] and whilst strolling through Nahlaot’s narrow alleyways. Stepping through a door with a small wooden ʿud …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… dosages and combinations ad nauseam . [1] These writings and their indiscriminating viral spread tell us more … the poet constantly revised his poem, alone or in the company of Jewish settlers from Rishon Le-tziyyon, adding … music was a medium characteristic of the New York Tin-Pan-Alley scene and Hatikvah appeared in several arrangements …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… ti zimliak" from the JMRC's album Kulmus Hanefesh … Celebrating Passover, the Song of the Month is dedicated to “E h ad … the end of the Passover seder , generally by all the participants right before “ H ad gadya ”, also a cumulative song. … such as Rabbi Asher ben Ye h iel, who fled the Rhein valley following the late thirteenth century persecutions and …
Hora (LKT)
… as ‘slow hora.’ The rhythm and the dance movements are distinct both from the lively Israeli dance in duple meter … the Tel Aviv Ohel Theate into settlements of the Jezreel Valley and Galilee. A circle dance, in a moderately fast … the hora dance form. It was the kind of tune played to accompany the bridal part home...[H. Kandel, 1923/A. Schwartz]. …
Tin Pan Alley
… Nickname for the popular songwriting and sheet-music publishing industry centred in New York … was happy till she met you (1899). Founding firms of Tin Pan Alley included H. Witmark & Sons (the largest company), T.B. …
Funny, it doesn’t sound Jewish : how Yiddish songs and synagogue melodies influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood
… songs … Actors … Performers … Performance … Broadway … Tin Pan Alley … Ashkenazi … Jack Gottlieb … Funny, it doesn’t sound …
Moshe Wilensky
… from high school and, at Edel's recommendation, continued his music studies at the State Conservatory of … In 1934, Dov Mayblet, owner of the "Achva" record company, selected Wilensky to arrange 30 popular songs of the … " Haroa Haktana Min Hagay " ("The Little Shepherd from the Valley"), were performed by Damari. That year, he was also …