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At noon in the kasbah
When the souk was packed
I’d be walking around
My chest toned and hard
And they’d all be saying: What a guy
And as I walked down the alleyways
From every window…
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Dan Almagor
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1966
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“Shir ha-ma‘alot (Song of Ascents),” Psalm 126, is customarily recited or sung before the Grace After Meals on the Sabbath and festivals. There are many different tunes for the song. A Yiddish…
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Michael Joseph Guzikov
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Lyady, Russian Empire (Lyady, Belarus)
Date:
1827
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel wrote numerous songs, piano compositions, cantatas, and other musical works, which were not published in her lifetime. The illustration on this hand-written manuscript…
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1841
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Louis Gottschalk wrote “The Water Sprite—Polka de Salon” soon upon his return to the United States after spending most of his teenaged years in Europe, where he was sent by his father to study music…
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Louis Gottschalk
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1853
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Aggudat Shirim (Collection of Songs) was one of several collections of synagogue music published by Samuel Naumbourg between 1847 and 1874. It included a scholarly article about Jewish music.
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Samuel Naumbourg
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Paris, France
Date:
1874
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Where everyone travels, in the middle of the road,
there is a wonderful flower.
It’s been lying there and rotting for several days now.
The wind blows it around,
and it cries out and weeps a great…
Contributor:
Elyokum Tsunzer
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
Date Unknown, 19th-early 20th century
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Which tells how a certain man took up with a prostitute in Hamburg, his first wife hearing of this came from Poland, how he was forced to give her a writ of divorce and this almost cost him his life…
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Unknown
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic
Date:
1675
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Sheet music for “At the Yiddish Wedding Jubilee,” a song popularized by Sophie Tucker (ca. 1884–1966). Born Sophia Kalish in Tulchyn (today in Ukraine), Sophie Tucker immigrated to the United States…
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Jack Glogau, Joe McCarthy, Al Piantadosi
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1914
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Sheet music for “Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars,” a comic song about a Jewish businessman on his deathbed trying to collect money owed him. “Yiddish dialect songs” were popular performance pieces…
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Irving Berlin
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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Sheet music for “Broadway’s Not a Bad Place after All” from the theatrical revue Ziegfield Follies.
Contributor:
Eddie Cantor, Harry Ruby
Date:
1918