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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… will be shown below) and are presented to the reader in a modern, annotated edition. A lengthy introduction provides … publications of Jewish music, especially in anthologies of Yiddish songs, the most prominent language of this corpus. … during the 1930s and through the 1950s were more common on stage than in reality. The separate subhead entitled “about …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… sources. Amendments already appear in a very early stage in the transmission of the text (see Figure 2). Once … to a rapid diffusion of Jewish liturgical melodies in the modern era. Gershon Efros in his Cantorial Anthology (vol. … that is found in many Ashkenazi liturgical melodies and Yiddish folksongs. All in all, this oral version vindicates …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon the … accorded the Binding of Isaac a significant role in pre-modern times (Katz 2008). A Yiddish prose adaptation of the … H. 1862. Der Gottesdienst am Neujahrfeste und Versöhnungstage für angehende Vorsänger bearbeitet von M [aier] H. …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… research rarely considers the Jewish home as a performing stage, even though major ceremonies of Judaism which include … the character of the texts included in this compilation. As modernity made its inroads into Jewish homes, more metric … questions. In some Ashkenazi communities, a paraphrase in Yiddish followed the Hebrew text phrase by phrase, a common …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… obscurity and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only dimly … its melody, one which I had learned in connection with the Yiddish song “Shnirele Perele.” In my initial exploration, I … important to record the melodies associated with the early stages of the rebuilding of our homeland, so that we, in the …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… This is an example of the presence of the Purim song in the Yiddish song revival in Germany. … Haynt Iz Purim, Brider … studying them shows the complex process through which modern favorites in the Jewish repertoire were constructed … the 1966 film, which eventually found itself back on the stage as a successful musical in Israel and Broadway (as The …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… wrote back in 1984 the internationally renowned Yiddish singer Nechama Lifshitz in a memorial note dedicated to her late stage partner, the Yiddish performer, narrator, composer and … … Archival recordings … Bukovina … Historical recordings … Modern Yiddish stage … Non-religious Yiddish music … USSR … …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… It also exemplifies the elusiveness of the symbols of modern nation-states. From the outset, we note that this is … Hebrew, ‘Zeruvabel’ by [Moshe Leib] Lilienblum, written in Yiddish and translated into Hebrew. Within the play songs … assumed Sephardic link of Hatikvah was pursued in an early stage by Rabbi David de Sola Pool of the Shearith Israel …
Karev Yom
… deep baritone voice, Bikel reprimanded Gazit in highbrow modern Hebrew by saying that “the Hebrew language is still … and folk song revivalist. Music reviewers stresses his Yiddish or international repertoire. Bikel made a career out … cosmopolitanism by assiduously playing the “other” on the stage or on the screen, exploiting his virtuosic capacity to …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… This song of the month is a humorous Yiddish song about a robbery. It is also known as “Bay Mein … in Belz, Bessarabia, and sang on Italian and Russian opera stages. At the advice of the poet Haim Nahman Bialik, an … their performance on Kremer’s recording. Listening to this modern version, one can hear that the structure of the song …