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Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Purim brider' from the Ruth Rubin's archival collection, "Folksongs and Folklore 1948-1967 – Holidays' Songs – Purim." … repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many American Jewish songsters at least since Samuel E. Goldfarb’s … are a testimony to the presence of Rivesman’s song as a folksong in the American Yiddish Purim repertoire, …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose crucial contributions … the oral testimonies of veterans of the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine prior to the establishment of … the Hebrew songs, many of which circulated until then as "folksongs". Among his most celebrated broadcasts was a …
Communal singing
… especially after the fourth and fifth Aliyot [1924-1939] (Jewish immigrations to Palestine), specifically in large … and the instructors, to be the repertoire of the Israeli Folksong. [1] This text is a summary of a full article by Talila Eliram , written for the JMRC. [2] An early Jewish-Zionist commando unit in Palestine that existed until …
Salah El Kuweiti
… were intentionally forgotten, and their songs were titled 'folksongs' or ascribed to other musicians. In Israel, they … in Israel. As part of a growing interest in Arab and Jewish-Arab music in Israel, an album of Daoud and Salah … Tassa tells the story of the al-Kuwaitis ' From Israel, a Jewish Singer with Arab Roots Revives the Music of His …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… This generational tension between well-to-do Baghdadi Jewish families and their youngsters who loved music and … musicians—still prevalent in early-twentieth century Iraqi Jewish society—as well the shifts in attitudes towards … His Master’s Voice in 1936, attained the status of an Iraqi folksong. His compositions contributed to the promotion of …
Had Gadya
… of intensive study by a distinguished gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting … in Israel and among the nations,” Assufot: Annual of Jewish Studies 2 (5748[1988]), 201-226 (in Hebrew). This …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… Within his vast oeuvre there are a handful of songs with Jewish themes, and a few of them are specifically related to Hanukkah. Guthrie himself was not Jewish; however his second wife, Marjorie Mazia Greenblatt, … content of the holiday and are similar to countless other folksongs and children's rhymes in which dance instructions …
65. El baile de los falsos (Sida Musafija)
… record. It has a resemblance to the refrain of the Serbian folksong “Malo ja, malo ti, više ja, nego ti, pa ćemo se …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … and saints, or Leidensgeschichte and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the … rabbinic elites. In the twentieth century, scholars of the Jewish past have moved far beyond this constricting …
Atah Ehad
… a zemer for the Sabbath, a Hassidic niggun and a Yiddish folksong. In addition, some Ashkenazi tunes were … Basis — The Discovery of the Orient and the Uniformity of Jewish Musical Traditions in the Teaching of Abraham Zvi … of the Synagogue: An Historical Survey' in Studies in Jewish Music: Collected Writings of Abraham Wolf Binder , …