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"Who by Fire" is a song written by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen in the 1970s. It explicitly relates to Cohen's Jewish roots, echoing the words of the Unetanneh Tokef prayer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In synagogues, the prayer is recited during the High Holy Days . [ 3 ]
His most popular songs include: "Yakkob", the tale of a Jew in Uzbekistan during the Holocaust; "Shloof mein kind" ("Sleep, my child"), the song of a Jewish woman who finds a child alone in the woods during the Holocaust; and "Williamsburg", a song about Hasidic Williamsburg during the 1950s.
Songs of Our Fathers is an album by American musicians David Grisman and Andy Statman, released in 1995. It's a collection of Jewish songs, many of which are more than 100 years old. It's a collection of Jewish songs, many of which are more than 100 years old.
In America, aside from America's own Yiddish theatres, songwriters and composers employed Yiddish folk and theatre songs, along with synagogue modes and melodies, as material for the music of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and Hollywood. [4] [5] Irving Berlin was one of the popular composers to move from Yiddish song to English songs. [6]
There are many songs about Jerusalem from various time periods, especially nationalistically-themed songs from the time of the Six-Day War, when East Jerusalem passed from Jordanian control to Israeli. Additionally many Biblical Psalms, styled as songs, were written specifically about Jerusalem. Jewish liturgy and hymns are rife with references ...
In the words of Peter Gradenwitz, from this period onwards, the issue is "no longer the story of Jewish music, but the story of music by Jewish masters." [ 24 ] Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880), a leading composer of operetta in the 19th century, was the son of a cantor, and grew up steeped in traditional Jewish music.
Pages in category "Jewish folk songs" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Israelism (song) C.
Within the traditional Jewish community, cantoral and chasiddic melodies were the musical standard.. In the 1950s and early 1960s recordings began to be made of non-cantorial Jewish music, beginning with Ben Zion Shenker's recording of the music of the Modzitz chassidic sect [2] and Cantor David Werdyger's Gerrer recordings.