… can all be located in traditional liturgical poems and the lyrics, like many of the songs in Binder’s book, would sound … . There is, however, an alternative set of Hebrew lyrics for this same melody, “Am’cha Yisrael Yibaneh,” that … led me to begin my study of Na’aleh L’artzeinu. The Yiddish lyrics of this song are deeply religious in nature and talk …

The Ahava Rabah Steiger is also known as Freygish. When the prayer includes a range of…

… Moroccan Jewish women to accompany wedding ceremonies. The lyrics of these songs usually refer to the event in which …

Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…

The rustic character of this fast Zoock brings the listener back to the celebrative…

Joseph Papernikoff was born in the late 1990s (1897 or 1899) in the Russian city of…

… characteristic of the Andalusian Sephardic milieu. The lyrics cover an apparently earthly topic, but do so with … it does not appear in the earliest manuscript version. The lyrics of Kikhlot yeini tell a story, as follows: a friend …