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Mazurka (LKT)
… military marches (2/4 and 6/8), and popular pieces from the Yiddish theatre, often in fox-trot, waltz, tango, and even …
Tsushpil
… . accompaniment.” Harkavi 1928, p. 426 . “1) In the common Yiddish sense (Weinreich, 347) it refers to the instrumental …
Polka
… military marches (2/4 and 6/8), and popular pieces from the Yiddish theatre, often in fox-trot, waltz, tango, and even …
Polonaise
… 1996a, pp. 16-17 . “It can also happen that a dance has a Yiddish name and the melody for the dance is borrowed from …
Sher
… We know of cases in which Ukrainian peasants took up Yiddish frejlaxs and šers . The šer is also widespread in … by Beregovski. There is no mention of the sher in Yiddish literature even though, as he pointed out, this … folk tune with a variety of texts in Russian and Yiddish, some of them quite risqu’e, and it has often been …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… set to a variety of religious poems in Hebrew and Yiddish. It was also featured in many publications of Jewish … no. 5) which in turn derives from a collection of songs in Yiddish edited by Joel Engel titled 50 Jüdische …
Shrayer
… We know of cases in which Ukrainian peasants took up Yiddish frejlaxs and sers . The ser is also widespread in …
Tish-nign (LKT)
… (religious folk songs), kind of lik Black spirituals, and Yiddish folk songs or theater songs.” Alpert 1996a, p. 16. …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… for the first time, as a manuscript addition (Hebrew and Yiddish) to a copy of the Ashkenazi haggadah printed in … (with a few Aramaic words) along with a translation into Yiddish. One defining characteristic of the Yiddish translations that differs from the Hebrew version is …
And Now We're All Brothers: Singing In Yiddish In Contemporary North America
… Critical survey of the contemporary practice of Yiddish song in America, with emphasis on its relation to … … Abigail Wood … And Now We're All Brothers: Singing In Yiddish In Contemporary North America …