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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 … a researcher of the JMRC specializing on Yiddish song and culture in Eastern Europe prepared a detailed scholarly …
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 … and European Zionism, mid-century Yiddish secular culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even into …
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 … cantillation has co-existed with tonality in European culture since 1600. Ne’eman observes that melodic variants … . Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv University and the Council for Culture and Art. …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… questions. In some Ashkenazi communities, a paraphrase in Yiddish followed the Hebrew text phrase by phrase, a common … not support the audio element. Ma Nishtana Old Nusach with Yiddish: Your browser does not … new tunes, composed in the spirit of the new Hebrew musical culture, had a lively metric character calling for …
Bernardo Feuer
… parts of operas in the original language or translated to Yiddish, workers’ songs, and choral symphonies drawn from … a Jewish folk choir with the aim of spreading Jewish culture through the preservation and transmission of their … reconstrucción (unpublished) stands out, as does the Yiddish song Zalmele , which tells the story of an anonymous …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… of Jewish life. The commercially-inspired music of the Yiddish-language film of the 1930s in Poland and the United … the short flowering of a vital, transatlantic Jewish cinema culture. Harsh economic and political realities combined … statement: images of people praying and fiddling. … 23259 … Yiddish … Yiddish Films … Jewish music … Yiddish songs … …
Oren Roman
… Researcher of Jewish Ashkenazic culture. Researcher of Yiddish literature, Kreitman … Cebter website. … 641 … Researcher of Jewish Ashkenazic culture … Ashkenazi … Oren Roman …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon the … great significance of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were sung to … form for an ‘Akedah piyyut was the monorhymed quatrain. In Yiddish Literature Literature composed in Yiddish also …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… for the Coronavirus to use distance learning!) I found the Yiddish song “Piramidn.” The song, whose first line is “In … Knightsbridge, London, UK I would like to expand on this Yiddish song for Passover beyond Levin’s text, stressing its … them had immigrated. Against the paradigm whereas Yiddish culture had a “one-way” circulation, from the Old to the New …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… musicology and Jewish music, and a mediator between German culture and scholarship and the nascent Israeli Jewish … Had Gadya Kedusha Four Melodies for Four Questions Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong) The recordings of Yaakov Huri in the …