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Karev Yom
… Gazit in highbrow modern Hebrew by saying that “the Hebrew language is still holding on my lips”. Towards the end of … and folk song revivalist. Music reviewers stresses his Yiddish or international repertoire. Bikel made a career out … virtuosic capacity to speak, and also to sing, in countless languages. However, in Bikel’s mind, the Israeli period of …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… acquainted with a vast array of popular and traditional Yiddish songs, as well as, later on, the new “rebirth” songs … Poland and Belarus (formerly Brest-Litovsk,Brisk De-Lita in Yiddish). However, Geshuri’s life, as those of many young … his early engagement with the creation of a Zionist musical language. In this context, his association with the …
Atah Ehad
… melody, a zemer for the Sabbath, a Hassidic niggun and a Yiddish folksong. In addition, some Ashkenazi tunes were … the score should follow the natural direction of the Hebrew language – the melody is set as a responsorial piece for two … Jew.' [7] The melody of 'Atah Ehad' was incorporated in a Yiddish art song titled 'Shabbes beim Shalosh S'udos' …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Hebrew, ‘Zeruvabel’ by [Moshe Leib] Lilienblum, written in Yiddish and translated into Hebrew. Within the play songs … poems, ‘Barḳai’ (1877-99). These show great command of the language. His most famous poem is, ‘Ha-Tiḳwah,’ in which the … not the “Palestinian” one and with a transliteration in Yiddish pronunciation) as well as a Yiddish parody (no. 200 …

Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… I refer to dances like the ‘kerchief dance’ or in popular language the ‘kosher dance,’ and the ‘ shabbat dance,’ the … “The ritual dance [is] (‘ mitsve tants’ or kosher tants in Yiddish) performed, as a norm, by several male guests … only the kosher-tants . Harkavi is the only one that in his Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary made a distinction between …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… here to English. Both were reprinted in their original language in Idelsohn’s memorial volume, Yuval 5 (1986). … that was later on replaced by the Jewish-German dialect [Yiddish] in its Kurlandian variant. Although, Libau was a … i.e. the “other” Ashkenazi Jews. See Jacobs, Neil G. Yiddish: A Linguistic Introduction . Cambridge: Cambridge …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Following common practice, I will also use trope (from the Yiddish trop ) to refer to the different modes used for the … Prosodic Basis of the Tiberian Hebrew System of Accents.” Language 70, no. 1: 1–52. … “Biblical Accents: Prosody.” In Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics . 288–96. Leiden: Brill. …