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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … Smolenskin, editor of ‘Hashahar’ and author of Haskalah books that served as a bridge to the new national-Zionist … structured as a musicologist’s Bildungsroman ('From the Notebook of a Writer-Musicologist,” circa 1970), Geshuri …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… Latvia (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He … of the war in 1919. In 1922, he published the Hebrew song book, 'Sefer Hashirim,' which includes the first publication … published in the “Hator” and “Hashiloah” and separately in book form under the title “Shire Teman”; pronunciation of …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… On the eve of Passover, our Song of the Month for April 2014 is … in a now lost, anonymous manuscript of a Hebrew prayer book in parchment apparently still found during his time … Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, heb. 637, a siddur (prayer book) according to the custom of Provence, apparently …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… Era This study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern … Hasidic leaders, Yankev-Yoysef of Polonnoye (in his book Ketonet passim 15 col. 3), who distinguishes between … 2002. “Jewish Folklore and Ethnography.” In The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies , edited by Martin Goodman, 956–74. …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and … reached us in composite manuscripts [13] or as printed booklets, hailing from the German-speaking territories as … [ Jewish Martyrdom ]. Tel Aviv: Dvir. (Hebrew) Goldschmidt, Daniel (ed.). 1965a. Seder ha-seliḥot: Keminhag Lita …
Pnina Salzman
… “The first lady of the piano in Israel,' and, 'She is considered the first … not mentioned, however, by Nathan Dunevich in his 500-page book on the major world-renowned pianists of the twentieth … musicians such as Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and Daniel Barenboim, Salzman, a devout Zionist, made the …
Zecharia Plavin
… Born in Vilnius in 1956, studied at the Ciurlionis School of Arts and Vilnius Conservatoire (piano class of Professor Marietta Azizbekova). Played youthful solos … Tav+' and Lithuanian outlet ' Kulturos Barai' since 2008. A Book ' Be-Lev Shomea ' (The Heeding Heart') on Israeli …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… generations Hanukkah has generated a substantial repertoire of songs, some of which have attained an almost universal status, even … This five verse poem (one of the few holiday songs in the book published without music), like the themes interspersed …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century … Jewish music as a whole. He left behind a legacy of iconic books and cultural artifacts that still define in many ways … immediately set out to find publishers who would print his books and finally decided to journey to Berlin. In 1921, we …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… . Brooklyn: Ḥevrat Ni h oa h Example 4 Children's parody of Ehad mi yodea from Beregovski's collection 1938 … patriarchs; four – the Jewish matriarchs; five – the five books of Moses; six – the books of the Mishna; seven – the days of the week; eight – …