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Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… … Israel … Background Qad Zawajunī is a form of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish … of this female Jewish repertoire is manifested in the songs' themes, such as the internal spiritual world of the …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… and reproducers of these stories than they do about the song’s actual historical past. Untangling these stories … we note that this is a rare case of bottom-up creativity. A song made its way to consecration by a state that adopted it … scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a …
Karev Yom
… commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War II. The Song of the Month is dedicated to Bikel’s recording of …
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 Rebbe iz … melody. 'A Gneyve' is part of a large repertoire of Yiddish songs addressing the hardships of a poverty ridden life that …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… use of maqam . The use of maqam for liturgical poetry and song was based throughout the 17 th century on extensive … were usually adaptations of popular Arabic and Turkish songs. The old style Ottoman-Jewish musical tradition was …

Vals (LKT)
… now the folkdance has had been accompanied by singing and song; and not only to [modern couple dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise , quadrille , waltz , …

Jüdische Volksmusik: Eine mitteleuropäische Geistesgeschichte
… and folklorists, mostly of introductions to Jewish folk song collections, arranged by topics and chronologically. … development of the modern conceptualization of Jewish folksongs in Central European learned circles of musicians and …

Troyer-nign (LKT)
… droshe-geshank-oyfshpiln and other entertainment songs...” Fater 1985, pp. 60-61 . … Troyer-nign (LKT) …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… Example 6 Notation and 1st and 7th verses to the wedding song based on "E h ad mi yodea" found in I.L. Cahan's 1957 … JMRC's album Kulmus Hanefesh … Celebrating Passover, the Song of the Month is dedicated to “E h ad mi yodea” the … similar serial patterns of question and answer counting songs in other traditions, such as Muslim, Latin, German, …

Tish-nign (LKT)
… money: a vulekhl or a doina , some zmires (religious folk songs), kind of lik Black spirituals, and Yiddish folk songs or theater songs.” Alpert 1996a, p. 16. “These …