Yippee
Directed by Paul Mazursky
Material Type:
Films
Year:
2006
Socalled Movie
Directed by Garry Beitel
Material Type:
Films
Year:
2010
It Was The Custom
Directed by Natan Gross
This film shows and explains different Jewish customs. Among the customs shown are children singing the Shem'a over a babies cradle. That is a common custom in Poland and Ukraine. Additionally, there is a wedding ceremony of Eastern European Jews.
Film located at the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
Material Type:
Films
Mikitka
Arrangement
Ukranian Jewish folksong.
To view the First page of the score, click here.
Material Type:
Scores
Year:
1924
Images palestiniennes
Composer
Author
מראות ארץ ישראל
V. 1: Laila bikh’naan -- Ir livnekh -- Gader shel even ; V. 2: -- Poeme hebraique -- Pastorale -- Ohel Scha’h.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1930
The Art Of The Cymbalom: The Music Of Joseph Moskowitz, 1916-1953
Arrangement
Composer
1. Anticuta Darga (3.27.1916)
2. Buhusher Chusid (Moskowitz, 3.27.1916)
3. Inspiration Spanish Vasle (Moskowitz, 7.19.1916)
4. Sirto (7.19.1916) 5. Operatic Rag (Julius Lenzberg, 2.4.1916)
6. Wichojiu Adin Ia Na Dorogu (Strolling on My Way Home, 12.12.1917)
7. Popurri iz Russkich Piesen (3.1927)
8. Batuta Olenilor Romanian Dance (12.12.1917)
9. Hungarian Czardas (2.4.1916)
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1996
Carpati: 50 miles, 50 years
Material Type:
Films
Year:
1996
Mordekhai Hershman
Cantor
1888-1941
Herman Svet
Journalist
Gershon (Herman) Svet was born January 1, 1893, in Shpole (Kiev province of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine). His father, Menachem Mendel Sveta, was the local cantor.
He studied at the "cheder" (religious elementary school). Later he graduated from high school in Zlatopol as an external student. In 1917 he joined the historical philology department at Kiev University, devoting himself primarily to the history of art. In 1920 he joined the Faculty of History and Philology of Odessa University. He married Yehudith Wahl, from Berlin.
1893- 1968
Josef (Yossele) Rosenblatt
Cantor and composer
Born in Belaya Tserkov, Ukraine, immigrated to the U.S. in 1912. Widely considered the most popular cantor of his time, Rosenblatt composed and arranged numerous religious works and had a major influence on the cantorial world that followed him.
Sources: Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music, Encyclopedia Judaica.
1882-1933
- A Polka Mazurka
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- 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.