… loud voice: There's a lot I would like to discuss with you. First of all about the Jews—I don’t have the same … the ornery antisemite had everything to do with his Hebrew first name. [28]   Picture 6: Solomon Rosowsky (far left), … for Jewish Folk Music, prominent Zionist, and later the first professor of music at the Hebrew University. In 1907, …

… with his sons except for Avram Zvi, the second born and the first son, who was protected from Azriel by his mother … from the neighboring barrack of the Hussar regiment. At first, I spoke Latvian that was later on replaced by the … Charlottenburg Synagogue, of which he was the leader. My first participation in the opera, however, ended badly; …

… in Germany, but almost half a century before the first collection of folk song texts in Yiddish appeared … the Lithuanian. The melodies are almost identical in the first section, while the second one remains unidentified. … no avail). Marc Lavry, a native of Riga, who composed his first works there and conducted its opera, in 1934 led five …

… since Antiquity. This renowned narrative describes how the first Jewish family (Abraham, Sarah and Isaac) came close to … However, it also acquired two new layers of meaning. The first was a Jewish reclamation of the story in reaction to … Reform movement, who advanced the new ritual of the Hamburg Temple. His transcription is a purely pentatonic melody with …

… from the 1526 Prague Haggadah. The song appears for the first time in print in the Prague Haggadah (1590). However, … song with a political message. It was released during the first Palestinian Intifada. In  her version , the song is … played now every year and accompanies a staged play by the first graders of the kibbutz. [2]   Click to listen .   …

… quiet and enjoying them, it is permitted.  This example is first and foremost an account of secular songs being sung in … traditions of the Yiddish folksong was done during the first half of the twentieth century. From the outset, the … with each phrase having its own musical function. The first phrase introduces a musical theme (Tonic), the next …