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Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… populations are reinventing the parameters and dynamics of Yiddish music performance-scholarship. Rubin's book allows … era has brought vocalists more centrally into studies of Yiddish music, and along with it more complex perceptions of … and it has looked more intensively into contemporary Yiddish music scenes (work that Rubin has done as well), and …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Initially he wished an adaptation of The Dybbuk (a Yiddish play by S. Ansky) to be the vehicle for the first …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… publications of Jewish music, especially in anthologies of Yiddish songs, the most prominent language of this corpus. … that the absence of a scholar familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs was detrimental to this project. … where several languages (Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish) usually impede access for the general readership. …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Had Gadya Kedusha Four Melodies for Four Questions Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong) The recordings of Yaakov Huri in the …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… that is found in many Ashkenazi liturgical melodies and Yiddish folksongs. All in all, this oral version vindicates …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… for the Coronavirus to use distance learning!) I found the Yiddish song “Piramidn.” The song, whose first line is “In … Knightsbridge, London, UK I would like to expand on this Yiddish song for Passover beyond Levin’s text, stressing its diverse interpretations and its reception both in the Yiddish-speaking world as well as in the modern Hebrew song …
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 … form for an ‘Akedah piyyut was the monorhymed quatrain. In Yiddish Literature Literature composed in Yiddish also accorded the Binding of Isaac a significant …
Oren Roman
… Researcher of Jewish Ashkenazic culture. Researcher of Yiddish literature, Kreitman Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of …
A Hassidic Ritual Dance: The Mitsve Tants in Jerusalemite Weddings
… the ritual dance (' mitsve tants ' or ' kosher tants ' in Yiddish) performed, as a norm, by several male …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… of Jewish life. The commercially-inspired music of the Yiddish-language film of the 1930s in Poland and the United … statement: images of people praying and fiddling. … 23259 … Yiddish … Yiddish Films … Jewish music … Yiddish songs … Film music … …