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Arba Otiyot
… This CD is dedicated to piyutim (sung sacred poetry) of the Jews of the Tafilalt (Berb. Tāfīlālt) region, … developed by the Piyut Ensemble of the Ben-Zvi Institute, a Hebrew University institution dedicated to the research of … Institute/NaNa Disk … Contemporary Jewish Music … Sacred Hebrew Songs from the Saharan Maghreb … Piyyutim … Choral, …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… onle of the last great poets of the Spanish 'Golden Age' of Hebrew poetry. Ibn Ezra was born in Tudela, Spain in 1089 and died … Ibn Ezra wrote Biblical commentary, poetry, research on Hebrew grammar, writings concerning Jewish thought …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… The text draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist songbooks and collections from the first … and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only dimly remembered by …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… includes therefore the stanza before the last (on the Hebrew letter “shin”), the last one (on the letter “tav”) … the popular Hassidic niggun used as a setting for Kipnis' poetry. In addition to those suggested at the time by Yaakov … present day. Feig sings Kipnis’ ‘Hag Purim, Hag Purim’ in Hebrew and Yiddish, a common practice in American Jewish …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… Zawajunī in English translation, Arabic transliteration and Hebrew translation הִנֵּה הִשִּׂיאוּני הִנֵּה הִשִּׂיאוּני עלמה … (see 1974, etc.) in an article which deals with the love poetry repertoire found among the women of Sana'a. In these … the Dead: Text, Body and Voice,' Doctoral Thesis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2011. (In Hebrew) Klein, …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… this poem have polyphonic resonances in Romantic European poetry. Different scholars cited two nineteenth-century … Eliyahu Hacohen, the ultimate connoisseur of the Israeli Hebrew song, who wrote one of the most authoritative studies on Hatikvah ever, notes that a Hebrew translation by Mendel Stern of Die Wacht am Rhein was …
Karev Yom
… him if the interview should be carried out in English or Hebrew. With a distinctive “sabra” accent and in his … baritone voice, Bikel reprimanded Gazit in highbrow modern Hebrew by saying that “the Hebrew language is still holding … yom,’ analyzed below in detail). From the point of view of poetry, the reliance on verses from the Biblical ‘Song of …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… to the use of maqam . The use of maqam for liturgical poetry and song was based throughout the 17 th century on … the 20 th century in Jerusalem and is a combination of the Hebrew language, which forms the base of prayers and … University of Chicago Press, 1998. * Translated from the Hebrew original in 'An Invitation to Piyut' website, by Elie …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… Perl fun der yidisher poezie (Pearls of Yiddish Poetry). In 1945 an abridged version of the poem, featuring … Idelsohn in 1932 in the ninth volume of his Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies and was classified by him as a … and the old songs that they sing [See this interview in Hebrew ]. The version featured on this album has Kahn …
Yiddish – The Mame Loshn (Yiddish - the Mother Tongue)
… American assimilation, and Zionism's insistance on Hebrew as the national language of Israel, its numbers have … aspects of the culture are discussed such as film, poetry and music. There are a few scenes in the film …