… child does not guess correctly, he gets beaten. Several verses are obscure or incomprehensible, as is common in …

… is none”, “En” in Sephardic pronounciation) that opens each verse throughout the song is apparently inspired by a verse from Hannah’s famous prayer in 1 Samuel 2:2, “Ein … hardly distinguish melodically between the refrain and the verses. They differ from the melody of ‘Mi-pi El’ most …

… in the external books. In the testament of Job many verses about music are of musical and musicological …

… with good food ready on the tables. Almost all of the verses have a common rhyme, í-a, following a common scheme …

… the second blessing the informant repeats the first two verses of the reading in an Aramaic translation (attributed …

… The opening verses of this romance, depicting the pains of a pregnant …

… traditional song. It includes only the first four  batim  (verses) of the poem: the first two ones are in the  nashid … refrain (“Ve-ha-kohen”) is applied to the third and fourth verses. Wilensky masterfully creates a “cloudy” accompaniment to the first two verses (no clear beat or harmony is heard except for the …

… also an accomplished poet and playwright. His first book of verse,  Aus vorletzten und letzten Gruenden,  dealt with …

… troupe in Odessa, and in 1881 published a collection of verse,  Kupleten Komishe un Humoristishe. Mogulesko settled …