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Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… European landscape: Hasidic tish-nigunim. Nigunim (Yiddish nign , from the Hebrew niggun —melody) are chants, … There is no doubt that Yosl acquired and preserved this premodern musical tradition, honoring the old eastern-Ashkenazi … simplicity-sincerity Yiddish Folk Songs Vocal Domestic, non-stage performance Introversion Modes, scales, motives …
Léibele Schwartz
… He carried out his first public musical performances in the modern orthodox Great Temple on Paso Street , next to … the Abasto quarter, one of the four theaters that presented Yiddish musicals and vaudevilles during the Golder Era of … on Broadway a few months earlier in 1946. He shared the stage with two Eastern-European born American luminaries of …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… visited old-fashioned “Chadorim,” although there were many modern ones in Libau; my father wanted to implant within me … that was later on replaced by the Jewish-German dialect [Yiddish] in its Kurlandian variant. Although, Libau was a … the Opera Department. However, the life of the theatrical stage quickly disgusted me, which is the reason that after …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern Jewish musical research. Idelsohn’s life traversed … their parents were invited. Father and I also went. The staged performance [Heb. h izayion ] included a dance of Bat … attended as there were by that time several Hebrew and Yiddish plays on the subject. One sound possibility is the …
Autumn
… Words by Itzik Manger, translated from Yiddish by Itzik Nakhmen Gottesman. Composed in 1936. … vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish … Modern Yiddish stage … Non-religious Yiddish music … Yiddish … Yiddish …
A Polka-Mazurka
… Words by A. Lutzky, translated from Yiddish by Rachel Corkidhi. Composed in 1937; first … Performs in Yiddish … Yiddish … Yiddish songs … Mazurka … Modern Yiddish stage … Non-religious Yiddish music … Polka … Israel … USSR …
Sleep, Sleep
… … Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish … Yiddish … Yiddish songs … Modern Yiddish stage … Non-religious Yiddish music … Lullaby … Sleep, Sleep …
Nahôn libbo is hujire – Whole-heartedly is the fearful believer
… religious imagery could be read through the lenses of the modern national awakening of the Jews through the piyyut ’s … such a piece within a European work for the concert stage is an avant-garde idea in itself, and a remarkable one … Not by chance, it is followed by the famous philosophical Yiddish folksong Die alte Kasche (no. 6) that appears to …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching emotional response by … the essence [of theatre], that is its content; the same stage serves two purposes, a [play] of comedy and rowdiness, … seems to animate his writing. Written in a convoluted modern Hebrew prose, Idelsohn uses new Hebrew words coined …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… music. This mode is common in prayer tunes, in the Yiddish folk song and in the old instrumental repertoire. … no. 3 entered the Chabad repertoire at a relatively later stage. Indeed members of Chabad in Israel informed Yaakov … nineteenth century, becoming an emblematic signifier of modern Israeli culture. As Mazor has shown in his …