Voices of a People

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252069185
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (691 download)

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Book Synopsis Voices of a People by : Ruth Rubin

Download or read book Voices of a People written by Ruth Rubin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of song texts in Yiddish and English, as well as a selection of tunes Rubin transcribed, this volume brings the Jews' ancient, itinerant culture alive through children's songs, dancing songs, and songs about love and courtship, poverty and work, crime and corruption, immigration and the dream of a homeland. Rubin's notes and annotations weave each text into the larger story of the Jewish experience." --Book Jacket.

Fiddler on the Move

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199760626
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Book Synopsis Fiddler on the Move by : Mark Slobin

Download or read book Fiddler on the Move written by Mark Slobin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Klezmer" is a Yiddish word for professional folk instrumentalist-the flutist, fiddler, and bass player that made brides weep and guests dance at weddings throughout Jewish eastern Europe before the culture was destroyed in the Holocaust, silenced under Stalin, and lost out to assimilation in America. Klezmer music is now experiencing a tremendous new spurt of interest worldwide with both Jews and non-Jews recreating this restless volatile, and vibrant musical culture. Firmly centered in the United States, klezmer has paradoxically moved back across the Atlantic as a distinctly "American" music, played throughout central and eastern Europe, as well as in many other parts of the world. Fiddler on the Move places klezmer music squarely within American music studies, cultural studies, and ethnomusicology. Neither a chronology nor a comprehensive survey, the book describes a variety of approaches and perspectives for coming to terms with the highly diverse array of activities found under the klezmer umbrella. Bringing to his subject the insights of an accomplished ethnomusicologist, Slobin addresses such questions as: How does klezmer overlap with, and differ from, the many other contemporary "heritage" musics based on an assumed connection with a group identity and links to a tradition? How do economics, artistic expression, and the evocation of the past interact in motivating klezmer performers and audiences? In what kinds of environment does klezmer flourish? How do stylistic features such as genre, form, and ornamentation help to define the technique, affect, and aesthetic of klezmer? Featuring a music CD with many of the archival and contemporary recordings discussed in the text, this fascinating study will interest scholars, students, musicians, and music lovers

Jewish Life: the Old Country

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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814332587
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Life: the Old Country by : Ruth Rubin

Download or read book Jewish Life: the Old Country written by Ruth Rubin and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, a collection of traditional Yiddish folksongs by highly regarded ethnomusicologist Ruth Rubin, presented with added commentary from music scholars Chana Mlotek and Mark Slobin.

Old Jewish Folk Music

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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815628682
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Old Jewish Folk Music written by Mark Slobin and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, translated into English for the first time, is a cultur­al record of the folk music of Eastern Europe. This volume consists of some of Ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovski’s responses to Jewish folk music in its living context during the 1930s, including essays on Ukrainian musical influences, klezmer music, and characteristic scale patterns. Also included are Beregovski’s anthologies of hundreds of folk songs with full Yiddish and English song texts. Each song is carefully notated exactly as it was sung and is accompanied by Beregovski’s notes on origins and variants.

Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317471709
Total Pages : 1641 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions by : Raphael Patai

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions written by Raphael Patai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 1641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind.

Tenement Songs

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Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book Tenement Songs written by Mark Slobin and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music in American Life. Index.

A Treasury of Jewish Folklore

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 741 pages
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Book Synopsis A Treasury of Jewish Folklore by : Nathan Ausubel

Download or read book A Treasury of Jewish Folklore written by Nathan Ausubel and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chosen Voices

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252070891
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Chosen Voices by : Mark Slobin

Download or read book Chosen Voices written by Mark Slobin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chosen Voices is the definitive survey of an often overlooked aspect of American Jewish history and ethnomusicology, and an insider's look at a profession that is also a vocation.Week after week, year after year, Jews turn to sacred singers for spiritual and emotional support. The job of the hazzan--much more than the traditional ""messenger to God""--is deeply embedded in cultural, social, and religious symbolism, negotiated between the congregation and its chosen voices. Drawing on archival sources, interviews with cantors, and photographs, Slobin traces the development of the American cantorate from the nebulous beginnings of the hazzan as a recognizable figure through the heyday of the superstar sacred singer in the early twentieth century to a diverse portrait of today's cantorate, which now includes women as well as men. Slobin's focus on the current nature of the profession includes careful consideration of the sacred singer's part in creating and maintaining the worship service, the recent relationship between the rabbi and the hazzan within the synagogue, and the music that contemporary cantors sing. This first paperback edition features a new preface by the author. A thirty-five-minute cassette for use with Chosen Voices is available separately from the University of Illinois Press."

The Book of Klezmer

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Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613740638
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Klezmer by : Yale Strom

Download or read book The Book of Klezmer written by Yale Strom and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2002.

Catalog of the Gerald K. Stone Collection of Judaica

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Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 164469476X
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Catalog of the Gerald K. Stone Collection of Judaica written by Gerald K. Stone and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald K. Stone has collected books about Canadian Jewry since the early 1980s. This volume is a descriptive catalog of his Judaica collection, comprising nearly 6,000 paper or electronic documentary resources in English, French, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Logically organized, indexed, and selectively annotated, the catalog is broad in scope, covering Jewish Canadian history, biography, religion, literature, the Holocaust, antisemitism, Israel and the Middle East, and more. An introduction by Richard Menkis discusses the significance of the Catalog and collecting for the study of the Jewish experience in Canada. An informative bibliographical resource, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Canadian and North American Jewish studies.

Jewish Folk Songs

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Folk Songs by : Ruth Rubin

Download or read book Jewish Folk Songs written by Ruth Rubin and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Klezmer's Afterlife

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199995796
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Book Synopsis Klezmer's Afterlife by : Magdalena Waligorska

Download or read book Klezmer's Afterlife written by Magdalena Waligorska and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Magdalena Waligorska offers not only a documentation of the klezmer revival in two of its European headquarters (Kraków and Berlin), but also an analysis of the Jewish / non-Jewish encounter it generates.

The Music Division

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book The Music Division written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Third Jewish Catalog

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Publisher : Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
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Book Synopsis The Third Jewish Catalog by : Sharon Strassfeld

Download or read book The Third Jewish Catalog written by Sharon Strassfeld and published by Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America. This book was released on 1980 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logically arranged, lively, innovative, thoughtful, and provocative, this book reflects the attitudes of a growing number of Jews who are seeking to rediscover Judaism's meaning and significance in their own lives.

Defining the Yiddish Nation

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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814326695
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (266 download)

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Book Synopsis Defining the Yiddish Nation by : Itzik Nakhmen Gottesman

Download or read book Defining the Yiddish Nation written by Itzik Nakhmen Gottesman and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Defining the Yiddish Nation examines the evolution of Yiddish folklore and the pioneering work of three important folklore circles in independent Poland: the Warsaw group led by Noyekh Prilutski, the S. Ansky Vilne Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society, and the YIVO Ethnographic Commission. Much more than a study of one particular folklore tradition, however, Defining the Yiddish Nation reveals how the work of the Yiddish folklorists sought to connect Jewish identity with the past, while simultaneously contributing to an autonomous Jewish national culture that would help reshape the present and create a future."--BOOK JACKET.

And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317181271
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America by : Abigail Wood

Download or read book And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America written by Abigail Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dawn of the twenty-first century marked a turning period for American Yiddish culture. The 'Old World' of Yiddish-speaking Eastern Europe was fading from living memory - yet at the same time, Yiddish song enjoyed a renaissance of creative interest, both among a younger generation seeking reengagement with the Yiddish language, and, most prominently via the transnational revival of klezmer music. The last quarter of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first saw a steady stream of new songbook publications and recordings in Yiddish - newly composed songs, well-known singers performing nostalgic favourites, American popular songs translated into Yiddish, theatre songs, and even a couple of forays into Yiddish hip hop; musicians meanwhile engaged with discourses of musical revival, post-Holocaust cultural politics, the transformation of language use, radical alterity and a new generation of American Jewish identities. This book explores how Yiddish song became such a potent medium for musical and ideological creativity at the twilight of the twentieth century, presenting an episode in the flowing timeline of a musical repertory - New York at the dawn of the twenty-first century - and outlining some of the trajectories that Yiddish song and its singers have taken to, and beyond, this point.

Bad Rabbi

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503603970
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Bad Rabbi by : Eddy Portnoy

Download or read book Bad Rabbi written by Eddy Portnoy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the success stories. It's a paean to the bunglers, the blockheads, and the just plain weird—Jews who were flung from small, impoverished eastern European towns into the urban shtetls of New York and Warsaw, where, as they say in Yiddish, their bread landed butter side down in the dirt. These marginal Jews may have found their way into the history books far less frequently than their more socially upstanding neighbors, but there's one place you can find them in force: in the Yiddish newspapers that had their heyday from the 1880s to the 1930s. Disaster, misery, and misfortune: you will find no better chronicle of the daily ignominies of urban Jewish life than in the pages of the Yiddish press. An underground history of downwardly mobile Jews, Bad Rabbi exposes the seamy underbelly of pre-WWII New York and Warsaw, the two major centers of Yiddish culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With true stories plucked from the pages of the Yiddish papers, Eddy Portnoy introduces us to the drunks, thieves, murderers, wrestlers, poets, and beauty queens whose misadventures were immortalized in print. There's the Polish rabbi blackmailed by an American widow, mass brawls at weddings and funerals, a psychic who specialized in locating missing husbands, and violent gangs of Jewish mothers on the prowl—in short, not quite the Jews you'd expect. One part Isaac Bashevis Singer, one part Jerry Springer, this irreverent, unvarnished, and frequently hilarious compendium of stories provides a window into an unknown Yiddish world that was.