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Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
… Join His Choir ,' can be viewed on YouTube courtesy of the Yiddish Book Center. … Cantor & composer … …
Avraham Soltes
… after week, he interwove the threads of Israeli history and culture with its musical heritage and that of Judaism at … love- songs, Ladino prayer- songs, American folksongs, Yiddish lullabies, and Hebrew melodies; to his creative …

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 …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… questions. In some Ashkenazi communities, a paraphrase in Yiddish followed the Hebrew text phrase by phrase, a common … support the audio element. Ma Nishtana Old Nusach with Yiddish: Your browser does not support the audio element. … new tunes, composed in the spirit of the new Hebrew musical culture, had a lively metric character calling for …
‘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. …

Doyne (LKT)
… hyperlink at the end of each citation. “The doina (Yiddish: doyne or doyna ), a free-meter Romanian folk … genre often associated with sheperds and pastoral culture, has figured prominently in the repertoire of … 1918:129, 1925: 135; Jaldati 1969:28, 196-97]. In the Yiddish version the plot is much more elaborate than in the …
Chasidic in America
… in concerts in North and South America, and in the 1937 Yiddish film The Cantor’s Son (Dem Khazns Zundyl) . O ne of the most successful American Yiddish films, The Cantor's Son was directed by Sidney … and ambiguous meeting point between traditional and modern culture which was strongly felt by Jews in the United States …
Haim Louk
… to Ashkenazi cantorial traditions and acquired knowledge of Yiddish. After four years, he returned to Morocco and … Israeli musicians. In 2011, he was awarded the Ministry of Culture's Prize for Music in recognition of his …
Had Gadya
… this manuscript version the song appears in Aramaic with a Yiddish-German translation (in Hebrew characters). This Yiddish-German version was studied in detail by Chone … attesting for its widespread appeal in non-Jewish cultures in Europe and beyond. Among these famous parallels …
“Unter dem kinds Wiegele” – Beneath the Baby’s Cradle
… Stutschewsky described the Yiddish lullaby as a genre as follows: Here lies the moment …