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  2. Oyfn Pripetshik - Wikipedia

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    Little House on the Prairie (1979) in season 5, episode 15, "The Craftsman", in multiple scenes with Isaac Singerman, a Jewish master woodworker who befriends Albert, and (1981) in season 7, episode 13, "Come Let us reason", in the scene where Percival's parents first come to Walnut Grove to meet Nellie and her parents. It is played in the ...

  3. Music of Israel - Wikipedia

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    Among the instruments he accompanied his traditional Yemenite singing with were "guitar, violin, qanoun [a kind of zither], trumpet, trombone and percussion instruments." [ 16 ] Yemenite music reached a world audience in the 1980s as a result of the efforts of Israeli singer Ofra Haza , whose album Yemenite Songs became an international hit ...

  4. Dona, Dona - Wikipedia

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    "Dona Dona", popularly known as "Donna, Donna", is a song about a calf being led to slaughter, written by Sholom Secunda and Aaron Zeitlin.Originally a Yiddish language song "Dana Dana" (in Yiddish דאַנאַ דאַנאַ), also known as "Dos Kelbl" (in Yiddish דאָס קעלבל, meaning The Calf), it was a song used in a Yiddish play produced by Zeitlin.

  5. Klezmer - Wikipedia

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    Klezmer (Yiddish: קלעזמער or כּלי־זמר) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. [1] The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for listening; these would have been played at weddings and other social functions.

  6. Dayenu - Wikipedia

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    Dayenu page from Birds' Head Haggada. Dayenu (Hebrew: דַּיֵּנוּ ‎, Dayyēnū) is a song that is part of the Jewish holiday of Passover.The word "dayenu" means approximately "it would have been enough," "it would have been sufficient," or "it would have sufficed" (day-in Hebrew is "enough," and -ēnu the first person plural suffix, "to us").

  7. Hanukkah music - Wikipedia

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    The English words, while not a translation, are roughly based on the Yiddish. "Oy Chanukah" is a traditional Yiddish Chanukah song and the English version, along with "I Have a Little Dreidel," is one of the most recognized English Chanukah songs. Both songs are playful with upbeat tempo and are sung by children.

  8. Hava Nagila - Wikipedia

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    "Hava Nagila" is one of the first modern Jewish folk songs in the Hebrew language. It went on to become a staple of band performers at Jewish weddings and Bar and bat mitzvah celebrations. The melody is based on a Hassidic Nigun. [1] It was composed in 1918 to celebrate the Balfour Declaration and the British victory over the Ottomans in 1917 ...

  9. Nusach (Jewish music) - Wikipedia

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    Jewish liturgical music is characterized by a set of musical modes.. The prayer modes form part of what is known as the musical nusach (tradition) of a community, and serve both to identify different types of prayer and to link those prayers to the time of year or even time of day in which they are set.