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Doyne (LKT)
… a wide area of Eastern Europe. Primarily intended for listening rather than dancing, doinas often serve to … included). “Doina: A free-meter but structured melody for listening, from the Romanian-Jewish repertoire. Often … pipe) or violin; it is sung by men and women, adults and children. In structure it is divided into two parts. The …
Semele (LKT)
… “Sometimes dances are mentioned in the literature for which we have not been able to gather data, although they were danced in the late nineteenth century. For example, a folk song (Ginzburg-Marek 1901: no. 254) … ancient dance. And this is also definitely confirmed in a children’s song which I found in Berman’s collection …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky … it is the only school in the Russian Empire with a quota for non-Jewish students.” [2] Rosowsky’s joke was pure … He cherished his Jewish students (and married two of his children off to Jewish musicians). Nor does it mean he …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… Maccabeats and many additional artists . In honor of the forthcoming Hanukkah celebration we will discuss a few songs … solidarity and resistance against tyranny in its many forms. His influence on American music is incalculable, as … his second wife, Marjorie Mazia Greenblatt, and their four children, including famous folk-singer Arlo Guthrie, were. …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… mitsve [ritual commandment/good deed] of dancing with or for the bride. Among Jews from the Bukovina region where … Such frejlaxs are very popular in that village and are sung for dancing. Bystanders who are not dancing clap their … them, the klezmorim , went the in-laws, the guests and the children of the shtetl.” Fenster 1964, pp. 155-56 . “ …
Mordkhe Shekhter
… Torah and writing Yiddish privately. In 1944 he left for Bucharest, completed his baccalaureate in Shots … persons’ camp of Arzberger. During this period, he worked for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, as a zamler … organized and directed (1966-1972) the Yiddish-speaking children’s club “Enge-benge” (for children ages six to …
Bazetsens (LKT)
… passage to married life, and features improvised but formulaic rhymed verses sung by the badkhn or marshalik … references included). “First there were the melodies for the ‘seating of the bride’ ritual for the wedding...” … woman should pray for a happy future and for good and pious children...” [Minsk, Russia, 1870s]. Katsovich 1919, pp. …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… bonfires under the open skies, the first haircut for three-year-old boys, and processions with Torah scrolls. … Ba’Omer, but rather on two other dates, namely ten days before the Festival of Shavu'ot and again ten days before Rosh … customs (lighting of candles, bonfires, first haircuts for children, and Torah scroll procession) took place at the …
Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture
… This melody was sung on the first two days of Pessa h for Birkat Kohanim, and for other parts of Hallel (Fabian Ogutsch, Der Frankfurter … hama’alot refers mainly to the hope of the return of the Children of Israel from the Babylonian exile in the past, it …
Bella Schaechter-Gottesman
… Gottesman. After the war they spent a few years in Vienna before immigrating to New York in 1951. She began her career by writing various works for children, and she later began publishing Yiddish poetry. As …