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Contemporary American Jewish Music
… Music, Department of Music, SOAS, University of London Yiddish song in 21st century America At the beginning of the … Jews and non-Jews alike, the idea of a thriving secular Yiddish song culture seems absurd. Most scholarly discussions suggest …
Freylekhs
… Yiddish term, popularly used to refer to a joyful Niggun, … to Ze'ev (Walter) Feldman , a researcher of Klezmer culture and the Ashkenazi dance in Eastern Europe and in the … genre, rather than just a joyful Niggun, as it means in Yiddish. The functionality of the Freylekhs Niggunim is …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… for abandoning his own heritage for the Slavic culture of Russian intellectuals. “Where is your national … “How do you know how many men live in a house?” asked Yiddish author Y.L. Peretz. “Count the fiddles hanging on … song, a character that typifies Jewish Klezmer music. The Yiddish author Shalom Aleichem vividly describes this …
A Pintale Id
… radio show and about the beginnings of the Jewish Yiddish theater and culture in Argentina during the 1950s. It also tells the story of the decline of the usage of Yiddish by Argentinian Jewry. The play features both Yiddish …
Erinhern für die Zukunft: Remember for the future
… choir, headed by Manfred Lemm who teaches singing in both Yiddish and Polish. In this film they can be seen performing … visiting synagogues and churches and performing two Yiddish songs, a resistance song, and Hebrew songs such as … Hebrew song … Children … Choir … Shibolet BaSadeh … Jewish Culture Germany … Erinhern für die Zukunft: Remember for the …
Image Before My Eyes
… by Joshua Waletzky This film discusses the history and culture of Polish Jews before the holocaust. It tells of the … the cities. Throughout the film there are a few different Yiddish songs sung. Among them are a Yiddish version of the prayer 'Modeh Ani,' and the Zionist …
In the Fiddler's House: Itzhak Perlman
… a few bands perform Ale Brider: … 9 … Warner Classics … … Yiddish … Itzhak Perlman … The Klezmatics … Brave Old World … … Klezmer musicians … Klezmer revival … Diasporic Jewish Culture … USA … In the Fiddler's House: Itzhak Perlman …
‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)
… sorry, It’s Yom Kippur by the Brooklyn based band Schmekel (Yiddish for a small penis). The band comprises four members, … (male), Nekeva (female), Androgynos, Tumtum (or Timtum in Yiddish), Ay’lonit, and two kinds of Saris. [5] In addition … Warren D. The Passing Game: Querring Jewish American Culture . Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, 2009. …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… The Yiddish language, which probably began to develop around the … and the folksongs, like many other elements of Ashkenazi culture, are made up of a combination of components from … periods: the vocabulary, syntax, morphology, and prosody of Yiddish combine German and Hebrew components, and in Eastern …
Socalled Movie
… demonstrates how he made a hip-hop sample from an old Yiddish record: Additional excerpt from the film that … … Funk … David Krakauer … Ukraine … Irving Fields … Popular Culture … Diasporic Jewish Culture … Socalled Movie …