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Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in a car, driving on a mountain road that winds down along the Lebanese coastline, overlooking the Mediterranean … and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that … living in the modern state of Israel from the historical landscape from which the famous record emerged, but also the …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Our song of the month concerns a Sephardic song commonly sung on the … and Shavuot holidays, which is derived from a group of songs often referred to as the ‘cycle of Moses’ due to their … Ten Commandments, and the arrival of the Israelites to the land of Canaan. Geographically, our song is found throughout …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Studying songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most … song “Piramidn.” The song, whose first line is “In dem land fun piramidn,” appears in Samuel Bugatch’s Songs of Our …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew … of the Binding of Isaac and was also used for additional songs in Hebrew and Yiddish, the content of which relates to … with the Indication Be-niggun ‘Akedah (Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Reuchlin 7, 63r ) The second song …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… The Sephardic copla, El incendio de Saloniki (The Fire of … to the medieval romances noticieros (informative, narrative songs), due to its recounting of historical events. 7 … un pan amargo, ni con agua no se va. Las palombas van volando haciendo estrución. Ya quedimos arrastrando sin tener …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Peleg, Sonja Wiedemann English translation: Courtney Blue The piyyut “Eli Eliyahu” is attributed to Rabbi Abraham Ibn … Europe. Toward the end of his life he wandered to England, and most likely passed away there. Throughout his … during the Sabbath. Therefore, a prominent motif in these songs is the figure of Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu), whose …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other Biblical … today Lithuania, Belarus, Western Russia, Ukraine and Poland and is now widely practiced in Ashkenazi congregations … on Purim; and (6) one for the festive megillot —Song of Songs, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes—read on Passover, Shavuot, and …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in America – A. W. … called (in his spelling) “Na-aleh L’artsenu – On to Our Land.” Binder indicates that this is a Yemenite melody and …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… to a barrage of factual and fictional information that, in the Internet Age, circulates virally in diverse variants, … made in Iaşi (Rumania) in 1877 or in Zloczow (Galicia in Poland, today Zolochev in Ukraine) in 1878 (scholars are … scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a …
Karev Yom
… I am still living the life of those times… Theodore Bikel On October 2, … commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War II. … career as a professional singer was marked by his first landmark long-play of songs eventually titled Theodore Bikel …