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Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… apparently for the first time, as a manuscript addition (Hebrew and Yiddish) to a copy of the Ashkenazi haggadah … those of “ H ad gadya” and “Addir hu,” was published in Hebrew (with a few Aramaic words) along with a translation … similar serial patterns of question and answer counting songs in other traditions, such as Muslim, Latin, German, …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, 1928. … was previously set to a variety of religious poems in Hebrew and Yiddish. It was also featured in many … In his article about the Hassidic niggun in the modern Hebrew song repertory, Yaacov Mazor mentions the same melody …
La Gallarda matadora
… possible connections. Background Sepharad is the medieval Hebrew name for the Iberian Peninsula. The Sephardic Jews' … morphological and phonological features adopted from Hebrew and the local languages of the peoples that … their diasporic communities Sephardim sang a repertoire of songs in Ladino, belonging to different genres such as …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… droshe-geshank-oyfshpiln and other entertainment songs...” Fater 1985, pp. 60-61 . “Mitzvah Dance ( Mitsve … . Harkavi is the only one that in his Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary made a distinction between kosher-tants -- …
Dobridzien (LKT)
… an allusion to ‘honey and milk under your tongue’ (Song of Songs, 4:11)... Harkavi, in the already cited Verterbukh , defines the dobridzien in English and Hebrew, that this was music that was played to honor the … Lithuania, 1880-1900]. Zizmor 1922a, p. 874 . “After songs had become stylish, especially in Zunser’s times, the …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… in the same fashion. [4] The Hillula at Mount Meron and the Songs of Rabbi Shim’on Bar Yohai The Hillula in Meron begins … Ha-Elokai.' The song is mostly constructed according to the Hebrew acrostics of “atbash” (alternating the Hebrew alphabet in direct and reverse orders; certain …
Chasidic in America
… exactly the same structural places in some of Armstrong's songs. This gesture situates the song in an ambivalent … the traditional Ashkenazi nusa h for the Haggadah, were two songs that quoted the melody of ‘Chasidic in America.’ The … Lexicon of the Yiddish Theater , vol. 3. New York: The Hebrew Actors Union of America, 1959, pp. 2407-2415. 1 …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… The album includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews used to sing in events … by a substantial trilingual booklet (English, Spanish, and Hebrew) that includes detailed commentaries on the contexts … Manuel Pedrosa. Jerusalén: Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalén. Kaufmann, Nikolay | קאופמן, …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… the Bund’s anthem. Despite the popularity of these two songs among Bund members and the strong rhetoric of “In … Idelsohn in 1932 in the ninth volume of his Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies and was classified by him as a … and the old songs that they sing [See this interview in Hebrew ]. The version featured on this album has Kahn …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… One only kid [young goat]), one of the most popular songs sung at the Passover seder in some of its contemporary … Annual of Jewish Studies 2 (5748[1988]), 201-226 (in Hebrew). This important study recapitulates most of the … appears in Aramaic with a Yiddish-German translation (in Hebrew characters). This Yiddish-German version was studied …