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Jacob Hoffman’s “Doina and Hora” (1923) and the Analysis of Klezmer Music
… on ethnography as well as music analysis: I discuss and play recordings from a 2017 workshop with the klezmer …
60. Hanukkah Song
… Babylonian Talmud (Shabbat:21b-23a) and also a kalippattu “play song” for the circle dances traditionally performed … and translation, Gamliel (2009, 447) notes the wordplay in stanza 3, lines 2 and 3, associating the sound of … the “remnants of Israel” is another example of clever wordplay, referring to a midrash about the carcass of the ram …
59. The Document Box
… Mordecai’s sandal (or on his knee), which he habitually displayed to Haman as a rude reminder (Ginzberg 1968, 4:399, …
57. In the India Kingdom
… green—every kind and size of jewels! All this he displayed to the lesser rulers there. And the fruits of the … scenes in Chavittunatakam folk dramas, in which the raja displays his wealth to tributary rulers. The attendance of …
50. Little Sinai Mountain
… to this awe-inspiring story, the Malayalam song rather playfully personifies the Torah as a disappointed bride. [2] …
44. Joseph the Righteous
… of the song (beginning with stanza 17) can be seen as a play on the comings and goings of Jacob’s sons and the later … is alive and well” ( Āyissōḍĕ Yoseph ) has been used playfully by Kerala Jews to refer to any absent member of …
39-40. Golden Manangĕ + My Dear Mamuchi
… that Kakicha was a more likely composer of these two playful songs and remembered him as a clever and witty …
38. Song About Love
… points out the creativity and inclusivity of its theology, playing with an apparent contradiction between the … authorship of a university-educated person, and the perhaps playfully suggestive double-meanings may also remind the …
34. Golden Palanquin
… a palanquin. They leave in a golden palanquin. One of the “play songs” performed in a circle dance by women from …
33. In the Ship
… and bride sailing in a storm-tossed ship perhaps alludes playfully to the excitement of their newly wedded state. …