Brakha Tzefira
Israeli Singer and collector of Jewish Yemenite music.
1910-1990
Katz Pajamas Mickey Katz
Performer
1. Yoshke And The Beanstalk
2. Little Red Rosenberg
3. Fancy Herringer
4. Chinderella
5. Wild Bill Hickop
6. Bagel Lox And The Tree Bears
7. Hansel And Gensel
Material Type:
Recordings
Mickey Katz the star of Broadway's Borshtcapades
Performer
1. Yiddish Mule Train
2. Bagel Call Rag
3. The Baby, The Bubbe and You
4. Dos Geshray Fun Der Vilde Katshke
5. Come On A House
6. Borsht Riders In The Sky
7. She'll Be Coming ' Round Di Katzkills
8. Sound Off (Duckworth Chant)
Material Type:
Recordings
Hava Nagila--Come Let Us Be Joyous
Performer
Performer
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This entry is part of an online exhibit entitled: "Hava Nagila: From Idelsohn to Belafonte & Beyond," prepared by Eva Heinstein with help from the JMRC staff. To view the exhibit in its entirety click on the link above.
Material Type:
Recordings
Year:
1958
Madama Europa, Jewish Singer in Late Renaissance Mantua
Brother of Salamone Rossi
Material Type:
Articles in Journals
Year:
1995
Doubly Tainted, Doubly Talented: The Jewish Poet Sara Copio (d. 1641) as a Heroic Singer
Depicts the challenges and successes of a woman musician living in 17th century Venice
Material Type:
Articles in Journals
Year:
1996
Massarano, Isacchino
Europa, Madama
Copio, Sara
Playing for Time
Author
Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Memoir of a French singer who spent two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was a featured performer in the women’s orchestra. Includes detailed descriptions of life in the orchestra under the direction of Alma Rose´.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1997
- 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.