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Yiddish – The Mame Loshn (Yiddish - the Mother Tongue)
… that was spoken by over ten million Jews around the world. Now, as a result of different factors, such as the … of the culture are discussed such as film, poetry and music. There are a few scenes in the film where Yiddish music is heard and performed. Some of them include the …
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
… Spaisman herself, Shifra Lerer who discusses and plays music of hers and her husband, Ben Zion Vitler, who helped … is exposed to many lost treasures of the Yiddish theater world such as piles of the original scores for many of the … the language, to the costumes, to the set designs, and the music. Three songs are sung on stage including Hirshbein's …
Yippee
… (MeUman). The film provides an interesting insight of the world of the Breslov hassids and their rituals. The … fallback of the film is the lack of documentation of the music and prayers which accompany the festive holiday. In … scene is mostly lost because of the use of extra-diegetic music that almost completely covers the prayers. Towards the …
Atah Ehad
… see below. Although Idelsohn can be credited as the first musician to introduce this melody to the Zionist repertory … of memorialization symbolizing nostalgia for the Old World that was left behind by the Zionist dream. Abraham … Binder 'Shabbes bei dem shalosh Seudes', New York, Metro music publication, 1938. Links For information on Netiva …
István Anhalt
… composition with Kodály at the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music (1937-1941). He spent World War II in a forced-labor unit of the Hungarian army … Anhalt wrote orchestral, chamber, vocal, choral, and opera music. Some of his works were influenced by Jewish themes, …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… of Russian Jewish political life.” (4) There are two main musical arrangements to the song. The first is a monophonic … Brotman on their album The Upward Flight: The Musical World of S. An-sky which accompanied the book of essays on An-sky The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… of the most prominent scholars of the folksong in Ladino worldwide. These CDs summarize the ethnographic work of … songs, their language and literary content as well as the musical styles of the melodies. You can download MP3s at … 1959-1973 Chants judeo-espagnols . 4 vols.: vol. 1, London: World Sephardi Federation, 1959; vols. 2-4, Jerusalén: The …
Chasidic in America
… Olshanetsky , the composer who is credited with the music of The Cantor’s Son . This virtuosic, wordless song … Oysher’s life, which fluctuated between the cantorial world of the synagogue and the popular music stage. Oysher’s … Hoberman, James. Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. Netsky, …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… as the Ben Ish H ay, one of the luminaries of the Sephardic world in recent generations. [5] Among the more recent songs … in the celebrations at Mount Meron According to the klezmer musician Moshe (“Musa”) Berlin, the performance practices at … the crowd. Today, however, according to Musa, the klezmer musicians do not stand next to the dancing audience. …
A gute nakht (LKT)
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … notsh ’, the klezmorim get a special payment.” [Dubno, pre-World War II]. Katshke 1966, p. 668 . “First the klezmorim … guests then dispersed.” [Frampol, Lublin, Poland, pre-World War II]. Kleydman 1966, p. 164 . “Pieces like Zay …