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Marc Lavry
Marc Lavry was born in Riga, Latvia and received his formal musical education at the…
6. Coplas de Hanukkah: Dak Il Tas, Toma El Tas
This text is only a fragment of a very old Judeo-Spanish song about the social…
“Die alte Kasche” (Volkslied) – The Old Question (Folksong)
Die alte Kasche stands out in the Yiddish folksong corpus for its simplest and yet…
Hirsch Glik
Hirsch Glik was born in 1920 to a working class family in Vilna. Glik began writing…
Hay ram galeh
… as Halevi. Almog Bahar, one of Israeli’s outspoken modern poets of Sephardic pedigree, discusses the phenomenon of …
Israeli folksongs
… Military bands, Arik Einstein, and Shoshana Damari ; and poets whose words were used for the lyrics of the songs, …
59. La reina de la gracia (Isaac Algazi)
This is a love song in makam Nihavent and usul Devri Hindi (7/4). The poem was written…
Emanuel Zamir
Emanuel Zamir was a unique figure in the field of Hebrew Folksong (Zemer Ivri). He was…
"Saperi tama temima" (Tell, pure and innocent)
Girdle poem by Se'adia ben Amram, signed with the author's full name. Written in Hebrew…