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Hora (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT … popular Saturday afternoon dance movement produced new folk songs and dances.” EncyJud 1971, p. 1267 . “The … e.g. from a hora (3/8) into a bulgar (2/4) time.” Schlesinger, Alpert, Rubin 1989 . ( Recording references …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… 716 … Over the generations Hanukkah has generated a substantial repertoire of songs, some of which have attained an almost universal … Hanukkah represent the individual reflections by poets and singers on the holiday's themes and the stories associated …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT … accompanied by singing... The possibility that such songs (e.g., frejlaxs ) were sung in other Ukrainian … variety of tunes, as a zemerl (religious folk song).” Schlesinger, Alpert, Rubin 1989 . ( Recording references …
Kale bazetsen (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT … mode. Most kale bazetsn are follwed by freylekhs.” Schlesinger, Alpert and Rubin 1989 . ( Recording references … sung to a variety of tunes, as a zemerl (religious folk song).” Schlesinger, Alpert, Rubin 1989 . ( …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… History of the Hillula of Rabbi Shim’on Bar Yohai in Mount Meron The … the northern Galilee, where the graves of the Tanna and his son, Rabbi El'azar are located, at least since the second … syllabic setting of the text. In the past there were some singers who had the 'Hazakah' (privilege) of singing …
Chasidic in America
… The song ‘Chasidic in America’ was originally sung by cantor Moishe Oysher and his first wife, singer and actress, Florence Weiss. They performed it on the … South America, and in the 1937 Yiddish film The Cantor’s Son (Dem Khazns Zundyl) . O ne of the most successful …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… The album includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews … the JMRC and one of the most prominent scholars of the folksong in Ladino worldwide. These CDs summarize the … them in different versions, all performed by the best folksingers, mostly women, from the Sephardic communities of …
Bella Schaechter-Gottesman
… to Cernauti, Romania (today Chernivtsi, Ukraine). Her mother sang a wide repertoire of folksongs (and is considered by Bella as a Yiddish folksinger). Schaechter-Gottesman spent World War II in the …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… 720 … In honor of May Day and the tradition of Jewish political radicalism in late nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, our Song of the Month is “In Zaltsikn Yam” (In the Salty Sea), … Mlotek, arranged by Vladimir Heifetz, and was performed by singers Sidor Belarsky and Masha Benya [Recording …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… On the eve of Passover, our Song of the Month for April 2014 is … story. It begins with a kid bought by the “father” (of the singer-subject of the song), which in the next verse is …