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Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish

… and Russian as well as biographical information about the poets. You can also find this album on Apple Music , or …

Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed

… district in south-west Yemen. Her mother Sham'a was a poet and professional mourner, who, as was customary at the … of variable lengths . These formulas are used by the poet, or in this case, the women who participate in the … is reinforced because the song is not the product of one poet but rather is 'quilted' together by the women …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections

… summarized by Bloom, see note 2 above). Apparently, the poet constantly revised his poem, alone or in the company of … this poem have polyphonic resonances in Romantic European poetry. Different scholars cited two nineteenth-century … Dried Bones’ (Ezekiel 37, 11-12) as the inspiration for the poet of Hatikvah . “They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and …

Karev Yom

… yom,’ analyzed below in detail). From the point of view of poetry, the reliance on verses from the Biblical ‘Song of … Hebrew repertoire. The rest of the texts are by canonical poets whose poems were set to music by composers of the …

A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty

… on Italian and Russian opera stages. At the advice of the poet Haim Nahman Bialik, an acquaintance, she began singing …

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 Passover Seder), two or three hours before sunrise, poetry emerges from the Ades synagogue in the Na h laot … the baqqashot piyyutim . The texts were written by various poets, beginning in the 19 th century, and composition of …