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“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… atmosphere of the Sabbath through to the beginning of the “secular” weekdays. Like most havdalah piyyutim , “Eli …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… shirenu: Hebrew melodies old and new, religious and secular (New York: Hebrew Publishing House, 1939). Nathanson …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… Palestinian and European Zionism, mid-century Yiddish secular culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even … Jews with a religious background but would be meaningful to secular Jews as well. Traditionally, the “Yom Gilah” – the … the Yiddish world with its unique combination of secular, religious, Zionist, and radical ideologies found …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… Fränkel (1921) reports on a large amount of sacred and secular compositions that Rosenhaupt composed. Apparently …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… did rely on the Bible. However, the likeness is that a secularized Hebrew poet writing a nationalistic poem in the … and other liturgical purposes, appears to be foreign and secular, as it main theme occurs in Smetana’s symphonic poem … that this (Rumanian song) is the “true” original melody. A Secular Anthem, Religious Song, Concert Lied or Popular Hit? …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… to use the basic structure of “E h ad mi yodea” to compose secular songs with a similar poetic structure. This … beginning of the Passover song, applying it humorously to secular objects, up to the number five.” (Rubin, 1963: 58) …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… socio-cultural shift in the way Purim is conceived by the secular Israeli Jewish society, from a religious festival to …
Debka (LKT)
… form and the steps (if not the music) entered the Israeli secular repertoire in the same way it entered the Hassidic …
Mordkhe Shekhter
… December 1927, in Czernowitz, Ukraine. He descended from a secular Jewish family. Until 1940 he was a pupil in a …
Chasidic in America
… Temple University Press, 1995. Netsky, Hankus. “Secular Jewish Musical Expression – Is Nothing Sacred?” in Jewish Secularity: The Search for Roots and the Challenges of … Union of America, 1959, pp. 2407-2415. 1 Hankus Netsky, “Secular Jewish Musical Expression – Is Nothing Sacred?” in …