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Karev Yom
… earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War … as an American theatre and movie actor, entertainer, and folk song revivalist. Music reviewers stresses his Yiddish … was released as a 10-inch vinyl in 1955 under the title Folk Songs of Israel by Elektra (EKL 32) and rereleased in …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… (nine stanzas) appeared in Yehuda Leib Cohen's Yiddishe Folkslieder mit Melodien (1957), where the text appears … robbery and shouting to passersby to help him. Actor and folk singer Theodore Bikel during a live performance … Nahman Bialik, an acquaintance, she began singing Yiddish folk songs, becoming one of the first female performers to …
Zemerl (LKT)
… reference. “...a zemerl [pl. zmires ]...is a religious folk song in Hebrew or Aramaic sung on the Sabbath. Bearing … commonly sung to a variety of tunes, as a zemerl (religious folk song).” Schlesinger, Alpert, Rubin 1989 . ( Recording …
Vals (LKT)
… that among our large masses, for a long time now the folkdance has had been accompanied by singing and song; and … 1994, p. 10 . “A ‘kozak’ [and a freylekhs ]... were folk-dances for adults and in-laws. The youth strutted its … dancing. Girls danced also but separately. They danced folk dances and waltzes, in which boys dance with boys and …
Jüdische Volksmusik: Eine mitteleuropäische Geistesgeschichte
… A selection of writings by scholars and folklorists, mostly of introductions to Jewish folk song collections, arranged by topics and … the development of the modern conceptualization of Jewish folksongs in Central European learned circles of musicians …
Tsherkesishen (LKT)
… reference. “Also a ‘kozak’ [and a freylekhs ]... were folk-dances for adults and in-laws. The youth strutted its …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… Month is dedicated to “E h ad mi yodea” the famous serial folksong added to the Passover haggadah . This article, … text printed in the haggadah has remained constant, a few folk, parody, H assidic, and satirical versions in Yiddish … version of 'Ekh ti zimliak' for four hands Yiddish Folk Versions Yiddish translations and paraphrases of “E h …
Tish-nign (LKT)
… make money: a vulekhl or a doina , some zmires (religious folk songs), kind of lik Black spirituals, and Yiddish folk songs or theater songs.” Alpert 1996a, p. 16. “These …
Skotshne/Skochne
… This could not have been adopted from the Ukrainian folk music, since there were far fewer professionally-trained Ukrainian folk musicians than Jewish ones.” Beregovski 1937 [= …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… It was also featured in many publications of Jewish folk songs in the early 20th century as a wordless Hassidic … und West in 1910 ( example 1 ) and in Kisselgof's Jewish folk song collection of 1912 ( example 2 ). The similarity … from the living practice. 1 As it happens to most folk songs, the first line of the lyrics of “ H ag Purim” …