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Again the herd throngs the village gateways
and dust rises up from the dirt roads.
And farther still a pair of clappers
keep pace with the lengthening shadows.
Evening descends, evening descends.
A…
Contributor:
Oded Avisar
Date:
1960
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One Who Is Rebellious:To obey commandments of which merely the ear is aware,
Yet remain deaf to urges that shake the whole being;
To regard as good the former,
Which reveal the soul so as to abandon…
Contributor:
Arnold Schoenberg
Places:
Vienna, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917
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I went to see to my sister in Berlin.
She wants me to consider moving in.
Her husband’s passed away now, a schlemiel,
He left her too much money in his will.
Her residence is filled with precious…
Contributor:
Georg Kreisler
Places:
Munich, West Germany
(Munich, Germany)
Date:
1963
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Written down while working in the fields, patterned after the Arabic working song and sung to that tune.
O I have my life and my labor!
Yah ḥai li, li-hah-‘amali!
Awaken, my brothers, there’s no…
Contributor:
Bar-Nash (Noah Shapiro)
Places:
Zikhron Ya'akov, Ottoman Palestine
(Zikhron Ya‘aqov, Israel)
Date:
1895
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Had I fastened
The cradle on a rafter,
And rocked it—and rocked it.
My little son, my Yankl.
But the house has vanished
Into a fiery dome,
How then can I rock
My little son, my own?
Had I…
Contributor:
Shike Driz
Date:
1953
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Inspired by the Warsaw ghetto uprising, this hymn became the anthem of the Vilna partisan fighters and many other Jewish efforts to resist the Nazis.
Contributor:
Hirsh Glik
Date:
1943
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This day is our war, my sister,
So I am far away from here.
Please keep our rendez-vous
In our tiny kitchen
Before my usual chair
Fill a glass of wine
And treat it as if I am
Sitting across from…
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Rafael Klatchkin
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1948
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In this volume I have made a selection of religious and holiday songs.
Actually, they constitute a single group, since in reality it is hard to draw a sharp dividing line between the first group and…
Contributor:
Noah Pryłucki
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1910–1911
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Dramatic poem by Angiolo Orvieto
Music by Giacomo Orefice
Contributor:
Angiolo Orvieto
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Florence, Kingdom of Italy
(Florence, Italy)
Date:
1905
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Many skeptics have denied the existence of Jewish music. Some lump it together with Oriental music; others refuse to admit its independence a priori, by virtue of the nomadic fate of the Jews, who…
Contributor:
Society for Jewish Folk Music
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire
(Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1913