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Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… to third parties even to cite a few words from his lyrics. As a result, the schmaltzy legends planted via … rewritten finale, and its aggressive (almost sadistic) lyrics. Kaplan also seeks to gloss over the way in which …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… . . . tell different stories” (p. xix). Yet as far as song lyrics about Jewish-Latvian encounters are concerned, I … Dschungali Dschun , a corruption of the original Armenian lyrics “Hingala” (see Assaf 2011). The melodic version in … It also became a Hebrew chant in the sports arena with the lyrics Hagavi’a hu shelanu (“The cup is ours”). The daily …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… it has not been located, thus far, independent of the lyrics of “Piramidn” in any folk tune collection. The agency … can survive again and again against all historical odds. Lyrics The original song by David Edelstadt “Yetsiyes …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… A passage by Weich-Shahak contextualizes portions of the lyrics within a summary of the fire: “The fire started in a …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… characteristic of the Andalusian Sephardic milieu. The lyrics cover an apparently earthly topic, but do so with … it does not appear in the earliest manuscript version. The lyrics of Kikhlot yeini tell a story, as follows: a friend …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… can all be located in traditional liturgical poems and the lyrics, like many of the songs in Binder’s book, would sound … . There is, however, an alternative set of Hebrew lyrics for this same melody, “Am’cha Yisrael Yibaneh,” that … led me to begin my study of Na’aleh L’artzeinu. The Yiddish lyrics of this song are deeply religious in nature and talk …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… for money at the end of a traditional Purimshpil with lyrics such as ‘Haynt iz purim, morgn iz oys, git undz a por …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… role in society. This theme is also expressed through the lyrics, which are structured with a recurring contrast …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… by then [1888?] as Carul cu Boi (Wagon and Oxen)” and “the lyrics [of Carul cu Boi ] had been applied at some point [to … performed on that occasion was published. It opens with the lyrics to the Greek anthem and ends with Hatikvah , a … rarely as plainly visible as in the case of ‘Hatikvah,’ the lyrics of which…speak of a movement forward and Eastward …