Vagabond Stars: a world history of Yiddish theater
Author
This book provides an illustrated world history of the Yiddish theatre covering five continents and more than 300 years
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1996
Songs Never Silenced
Arrangement
Editor
Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Compilation of over 100 ghetto and camp songs presented in Hebrew, Yiddish and English. Includes a CD with recordings of twenty four songs from the book.
Material Type:
Scores
Year:
2003
Songs of the Ghettos
Arrangement
Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Presents arrangements for twenty songs originally performed in the ghettos.
Material Type:
Scores
Year:
1972
Yes, We Sang!: Songs of the Ghettos and Concentration Camps
Co-editor
Co-editor
Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Compiles music and lyrics to twenty-five songs composed or performed in the ghettos and concentration camps, with introductory notes to each song. Includes a bibliography and a guide to Yiddish pronunciation.
Material Type:
Scores
Year:
1985
Music in Terezםn 1941-1945
Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Describes the musical culture that developed in the “model” ghetto, Theresienstadt, where many of Europe’s most prominent Jewish musicians and composers were detained. Reconstructs the musical repertoire performed in the ghetto. Extensively illustrated, with biographical sketches of persons featured in the text.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1985
Hear Our Voices: Songs of the Ghettos and Camps
Author
(Compact Disc) Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Twenty-nine songs composed by Mordecai Gebirtig, Pavel Haas, Viktor Ullman, and others in the ghettos and concentration camps.
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Recordings
Year:
1995
Our Town is Burning: Cries from the Holocaust
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(Compact Disc) Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Twenty-seven songs from the ghettos and camps, many of which are drawn from the book We Are Here: Songs of the Holocaust. Sung in Yiddish and Czech.
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Recordings
Year:
1994
Brundibár: A Children’s Opera in Two Acts
Composer
(Compact Disc) Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies New recording of the children’s opera performed for representatives of the Red Cross by prisoners in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1943. Includes a booklet with the libretto in English, Czech, French, and German.
Material Type:
Recordings
Year:
1996
Krakow Ghetto Notebook
(Compact Disc) Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Presents nineteen songs drawn from the notebook Mordecai Gebirtig kept in the Krakow ghetto.
Material Type:
Recordings
Year:
1994
Composers of the Holocaust
(Compact Disc) Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Presents eighteen songs composed in the ghettos and camps. Includes a booklet with English translations of the lyrics.
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Recordings
Year:
2000
- A Polka Mazurka
- Niggun of the Meggid of Mezerich From the album, "The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim." This dance niggun is the seventh and last in a series of niggunim sung by Bratslav Hasidim as they dance after the Shabbat evening service on Friday night. Some have attributed the niggun to R. Dov Ber, the meggid of Mezerich.
- Kol B'ru'ei (Padua, Italy) From the album, "Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)." The poem depicts "all creatures" singing and praising the unity of God, and was recited in the Italian rite during the daily morning prayer. This melody was sung only on Rosh Hashanah (New Year) in the Italian tradition of Padua.
- Yigdal From the album, "Judeo-Carribean Currents, Music of the Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao," performed by Gideon Zelermyer. The Yigdal is part of the ceremonial section of the liturgical order of Shabbat and the Holy Days in the Curaçao synagogue. It is one of the ending hymns of the service.
- Eres Chiquita y Bonita From the album, "Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle," sung by Alicia Bendayan from Tetuan. This is a song about courtship, related to the Jewish rituals that mark the events of the life cycle.
- Sweet Shalt Be My Chant From the album, "Kulmus Hanefesh," performed by Yair Harel on voice and tar, and Matti Kovler on voice and piano. A sacred hymn attributed to Rabbi Yehuda ha-Chasid, this is a Chabad tune with a near-Eastern arrangement.
- Lyr II From the album, "The Music of the Mountain Jews." Lyr is a genre found among all Turkish peoples, consisting of long, complex compositions usually comprised of three parts.
- Gilu ha-Galilim (Rejoice Galileans) From the album, "Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946)." This is a Second Aliyah (1904-1914) song which became an integral part of the historical repertoire of Hebrew song. Both native-born and newly arrived pioneers sang this song in all circumstances.
- Saperi Tama From the album, "With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen." This is a girdle poem by Se'adia ben Amram. Saperi Tama is sung to many melodies and is one of Yemenite Jewry's most common poems.