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Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… of entertaining others. The chapter also explores the reasons for the lack of professional azmaris among the … song texts, highlighting the centrality of “wax and gold”—a metaphor that stands for the multiple semantic … understanding song texts. The idiom draws on the goldsmith’s method of constructing a clay mold around a form …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … published translations made in any language by Leah Goldberg, the renowned Hebrew poet. There are also a few … regarded as a corruption stemming from foreign influence (Goldenberg 2004). Karnes quotes Idelsohn on the importance …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Studying songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into … includes a beautiful arrangement of the song by Raymond Goldstein , performed by the Coro Hebraeico conducted by Neil Levin with Amy Goldstein as soprano soloist. The piece was recorded on July …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… following God’s command that Abraham sacrifice his son. The plot is unexpectedly inverted by God's miraculous … in Ashkenaz between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries (Goldschmidt 1965b, 18–19). These poems generally consist of … [8] and usually with the rhyme scheme aaaa, bbbb, etc. (Goldschmidt 1965b, 190 [no. 74], 209 [no. 83]). Monorhymed …
Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
… and binding their hair up in a bun with the insertion of golden crickets” (1.6.3; trans. by Kurke 1992: 95). Linen chitons and golden crickets were part of a luxurious Eastern clothing … to democratic; the Orient, contrasted with the isonomic Spartan model, was connoted with stereotypes of …
Bernardo Feuer
… the Austro-Hungarian Empire but now in Ukraine. He was the son of Mordechai [Markos] Feuer and of Rojme [Roshme] Pese, … synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original language or … a series of records, which was sold in a boxed set. Golda Meir meets Bernardo Feuer during her visit to …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Clement Robert, Courtney Blue, Yaniv Dery, Noam Peleg, Sonja Wiedemann English translation: Courtney Blue The … considered onle of the last great poets of the Spanish 'Golden Age' of Hebrew poetry. Ibn Ezra was born in Tudela, … during the Sabbath. Therefore, a prominent motif in these songs is the figure of Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu), whose …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… texts grew exponentially through time (see for example our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs … Two notable publications containing the melody are Israel Goldfarb and Samuel E. Goldfarb, The Jewish Songster: Music for Voice and Piano …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in … seems to have its own history. Published first in Thelma Goldfarb’s “Echoes of Palestine” (New York, 1929), then by … “Mizimrat Ha’aretz” (1929, 2 nd ed. 1935), and then in the Goldfarb Family’s “Jewish Songster Part II” (in various …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… In the last Song of the Month we introduced the song for Purim ‘Haint Iz Purim, Brider’ (Today is Purim, … Kurtzer, Bas Sheva, Sheindele the Khaznte, Perele Feig, Goldie Malavsky and Freydele Oysher, Journal of Synagogue …