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A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jewish culture, with a new national repertoire of Zionist songs, the internationalization of Jewish scholarship, and … Archive at the Music Department of the National Library of Israel (catalogued as Mus. 4). Among the many treasures in … diseases broke out and spread among the inhabitants of the country due to lack of food and poverty. All of the women …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… There are scholars of Jewish and Israeli culture whose crucial contributions remain sealed to … the prism of one of its most effective cultural products: songs destined to be performed by “the people” rather than … legendary program “Sharti lakh artzi” ("I sang to you, my country") . On the air between 1974 and 1976, this show …
38. Ĕṇṇi Ĕṇṇi Tiṟttu Dinam (The Fifth of Iyyar)
… A Malayalam Zionist song celebrating the declaration of Israeli independence on the fifth day of the Hebrew month of … arrived! Let us celebrate this day With dancing and joyful songs. Let us celebrate with joy The country of Israel, The nation of Israel, The flag of Israel, …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… and the fragrance of the fields and the vineyards, and the songs of the real shepherd who longs for his beloved [not … and most importantly, how did they come to the Land of Israel? -- Those who did not see the Bible in its real form … of Hebrew singers. Each singer will be sent to his own country of origin outside Israel/Palestine and, building on …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… of modern Jewish music research and documentation in Israel, and curator emeritus of the Sound Archives of the … the most prestigious institution of higher learning in the country in those days, Herzog intensified his ethnographic … the Ashkenazi repertoire of zemiroth Shabbat (Sabbath table songs; for an example see here ), which he recorded and …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… as in the public projection of Moroccan Jewish music in Israel and international festivals. The performance of the … (1900-1970). However, it belongs to a genre of popular songs that draw heavily from folk styles from the Greater … of melodies, reproduces venerable practices from “the old country” as much as the taste of the specific performing …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… by a grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel and the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science … in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for … before the Vizhnitz leaders immigrated to Israel. In this country, in the early 1950s, the Rebbe of Vizhnitz, R. …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in … recorded items (each one comprising several units, such as songs and dialogues), which, although already digitized and … of critical ideas that transcend spatial boundaries (i.e. country of origin), and are largely categorizable by shared …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that … essentially immobile and inaccessible to many, especially Israeli Jews; second, the famous record’s copy on my mobile … Z, a renowned Syrian musician who, forced to flee from his country during the war in Syria, currently resides in Egypt. …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Nor did it become the national anthem of the State of Israel until very recently. The truth is that Hatikvah (“The … scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a … wild-dove hath her nest, the fox his cave, Mankind their country -- Israel but the grave!’ [7] Also the song ‘Al tal …