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A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… This song of the month is a humorous Yiddish song about a robbery. It is also known as “Bay Mein … melody. 'A Gneyve' is part of a large repertoire of Yiddish songs addressing the hardships of a poverty ridden … song for the first time in their notable 1901 collection of Yiddish songs (1991). They included only two stanzas but …
Karev Yom
… and folk song revivalist. Music reviewers stresses his Yiddish or international repertoire. Bikel made a career out …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Hebrew, ‘Zeruvabel’ by [Moshe Leib] Lilienblum, written in Yiddish and translated into Hebrew. Within the play songs … not the “Palestinian” one and with a transliteration in Yiddish pronunciation) as well as a Yiddish parody (no. 200 only the first part of the melody, …
Or Haganuz
… to put together a selection of hazzanut pieces and Yiddish songs in new arrangements for voice and piano by … literary texts (in this case liturgical texts and Yiddish poems) in their music, Hajdu offers a fresh and … Contemporary Jewish Music … Gems of Ashkenazi Hazzanut and Yiddish Songs Revived … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… wrote back in 1984 the internationally renowned Yiddish singer Nechama Lifshitz in a memorial note dedicated to her late stage partner, the Yiddish performer, narrator, composer and singer Leibu Levin … Michael Lukin, a researcher of the JMRC specializing on Yiddish song and culture in Eastern Europe prepared a …
Vivat
… in the morning later a ‘frimorgns’ or a ‘dzshan dobri’, in Yiddish euphemistic language therefore one was called …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… is one of the most familiar songs in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many … Samuel E. Goldfarb’s Hamenagen [1] (1925). The song in both Yiddish and Hebrew (the latter language is important as we … Goldfarb’s in several widely disseminated American Hebrew-Yiddish songsters published by Harry Coopersmith and others. …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… at the court of the Polish Hassidic dynasty of Kozhnitz (Yiddish name of the town of Kozienice, in Eastern Central … Feig sings Kipnis’ ‘Hag Purim, Hag Purim’ in Hebrew and Yiddish, a common practice in American Jewish communities at … wordless niggunim are mediated by their adoption to modern Yiddish and Hebrew song texts. References Brown, Arianne. …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… its melody, one which I had learned in connection with the Yiddish song “Shnirele Perele.” In my initial exploration, I was sure that I had found a classic example of an old Yiddish melody that was reclaimed by Hebrewists in Europe or … of American, Palestinian and European Zionism, mid-century Yiddish secular culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Following common practice, I will also use trope (from the Yiddish trop ) to refer to the different modes used for the …