Socalled Movie
Directed by Garry Beitel
Material Type:
Films
Year:
2010
Music from the Holy Land
This film documents different songs and musical styles in Israel during the 1970's.
Material Type:
Films
LeBelibo Agas VeGam Tapuach
This musical television special, hosted by Ehud Manor and conducted and arranged by Matti Caspi, features prominent Israeli singers performing popular Israeli songs that were inspired and taken from Russian folksongs. The performers include, Matti Caspi, Leah Shabbat, Simah A'miel, Shlomi Shabbat, Boaz Sharabi and Ofira Yosephi.
Material Type:
Films
Jericho's Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land
Directed by Liz Nord
Material Type:
Films
Year:
2004
Israel Rocks: A Journey Through Music of Visions and Divisions
Directed by Izzy Abrahami and Erga Netz
Film about Israeli music as well as some Palestinian, and how it represents different dynamics that are prevalent in Israeli society.
Material Type:
Films
Year:
2000
Yahweh Rastafari! Matisyahu and the Aporias of Hasidic Reggae Superstardom
Popular Music and Israeli National Culture
Popular Music in Israel: The First Fifty Years
Proyecto de integración de la música popular dentro del marco escolar: las vivencias musicales de las tradiciones de los padres llevadas a la escuela
Bob Dylan approximately : a portrait of the Jewish poet in search of God : a Midrash
Author
photography by George Gruel, Peter Vogl and others ...
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1975
- A Polka Mazurka
- Niggun of the Meggid of Mezerich From the album, "The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim." This dance niggun is the seventh and last in a series of niggunim sung by Bratslav Hasidim as they dance after the Shabbat evening service on Friday night. Some have attributed the niggun to R. Dov Ber, the meggid of Mezerich.
- Kol B'ru'ei (Padua, Italy) From the album, "Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)." The poem depicts "all creatures" singing and praising the unity of God, and was recited in the Italian rite during the daily morning prayer. This melody was sung only on Rosh Hashanah (New Year) in the Italian tradition of Padua.
- Yigdal From the album, "Judeo-Carribean Currents, Music of the Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao," performed by Gideon Zelermyer. The Yigdal is part of the ceremonial section of the liturgical order of Shabbat and the Holy Days in the Curaçao synagogue. It is one of the ending hymns of the service.
- Eres Chiquita y Bonita From the album, "Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle," sung by Alicia Bendayan from Tetuan. This is a song about courtship, related to the Jewish rituals that mark the events of the life cycle.
- Sweet Shalt Be My Chant From the album, "Kulmus Hanefesh," performed by Yair Harel on voice and tar, and Matti Kovler on voice and piano. A sacred hymn attributed to Rabbi Yehuda ha-Chasid, this is a Chabad tune with a near-Eastern arrangement.
- Lyr II From the album, "The Music of the Mountain Jews." Lyr is a genre found among all Turkish peoples, consisting of long, complex compositions usually comprised of three parts.
- Gilu ha-Galilim (Rejoice Galileans) From the album, "Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946)." This is a Second Aliyah (1904-1914) song which became an integral part of the historical repertoire of Hebrew song. Both native-born and newly arrived pioneers sang this song in all circumstances.
- Saperi Tama From the album, "With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen." This is a girdle poem by Se'adia ben Amram. Saperi Tama is sung to many melodies and is one of Yemenite Jewry's most common poems.