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Karev Yom
… the establishment of the state as well as their social networks abroad (e.g. Bikel’s own collaboration with Dov … and pert hat…her sun-bronzed legs marching happily across a field, with a hoe on her shoulder. Elektra received numerous … the kibbutz she lived on. In fact she was a model, and the field was in Long Island.” Bikel recalled the same incident …

Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… excelled especially in Hebrew poetry and in music, two fields in which Isaac Eliyahu Navon excelled as well. From … of 18, Navon moved with his parents to Istanbul. He started working as a secretary and personal assistant of Moshe Bar … man (('גביר'in the Jewish community in Istanbul. While working with Bar-Natan, Navon began publishing articles and …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Karnes’s intimate familiarity with Melngailis’s life work. The survey also includes a brief general history of … another thirteen may belong to this batch as well. The 1899 field work alone contained 120 songs performed by Jewish … assumptions, is a meaningful contribution to the expanding field of uncovering unattended archives. This is …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… [10] Since then, a barrage of additional information or reworking of the story were published, mostly without adding … while nostalgically celebrating the old ways of plowing the fields. Put differently, when Samuel Cohen learned the song … Palestine/Eretz Israel of which Hatikvah is just one more field of contestation between clashing narratives. By now, …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… of all those who betray their people? In any case then, his works would have endured and be fully alive like those of a … lower world, and hills and valleys and the fragrance of the fields and the vineyards, and the songs of the real shepherd …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… recorded in Israel on March 13, 2000 by the ethnomusicology workshop of Bar Ilan University and Renanot (Institute of … 1970s ( see here for an example ). A copy of this precious field recordings of the Cohens is preserved in the archive …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… the Binding of Isaac has constituted a common motif in works of art among Jews throughout the ages (Sabar 2009, … enriches our knowledge in the barely documented field of pre-modern Jewish music. On the one hand, our study … are remarkably similar to those of Michel Heymann. In a field recording of the Seliḥot service on the Eve of Rosh …