Living Orphan - Lebediker Yosem
Directed by Joseph Seiden
Film about the hardships of Jewish immigrants in New York City during the 1930s.
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Material Type:
Films
Year:
1937
The Unfortunate Bride
Directed by Maurice Schwartz
This 1926 silent film was re-edited and had dialogue and music added to it in 1932. It's theme is similar to many other Yiddish films of that era. It is about the conflict between the traditional and modern ways of life that greeted Jewish immigrants upon their arrival in America.
Material Type:
Films
Music in Jewish History and Culture
Author
Author
A survey of Jewish music from Biblical times to the present that compiles a great amount of selective data without offering in-depth insights into the social context in which the music is created, performed, judged and consumed.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
2006
In the Fiddler's House: Itzhak Perlman
Directed by Glenn DuBose and Don Lenzer
Famed classical violinist Itzhak Perlman joins klezmer bands and musicians, such as The Klezmatics and The Klezmer Conservatory Band. The songs that are performed are listed as follows:
1. Mayn elterns fargenign ("Sam Musiker")
2. Rufn di kinder aheym (Calling the children home)
3. Doyna and hora
4. Basarabye (Bessarablia)
Material Type:
Films
American Society for Jewish Music
The American Society for Jewish Music (ASJM) serves as a broad canopy for all who are interested in Jewish music. Its members include cantors, composers, educators, musicologists, ethnologists, historians, performers and interested lay members - as well as libraries, universities, synagogues and other institutions.
The Musical Performance of Hayom harat olam in Sephardic Communities: On the Use of Notated Sources in Jewish Music Research
You never know - Shlomo Carlebach
Documentary, Israel 2008, 61 min. Hebrew, Engl. subt.
Material Type:
Films
Year:
2008
Song of David
Material Type:
Films
Year:
2007
Stepping Across the Divide: Hasidic Music in Today's Yiddish Canon
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman: Song of Autumn - Harbstlid
Documentary. Yiddish with English subt., a film by Josh Waletzky produced by the League for Yiddish
No. 2 in the film series: "Worlds within a World: Conversations with Yiddish Writers"
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman is a renown yiddish poet, songwriter and singer.
Material Type:
Films
Year:
2007
- 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.