Yiddish Songs from Prague

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004730823_010" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004730823_010</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004730823_010" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004730823_010</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Yiddish Songs from Prague

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

A relatively extensive collection of 43 songs (or poems) from Prague, mostly written in Yiddish, sometimes in Yiddish and Hebrew, is part of Rabbi David Oppenheim&apos;s collection, which is stored at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Most of these printed songs date from the second half of the 17th century and the first two decades of the 18th century, but some are a hundred years older. The article suggests that we understand this corpus as a representative sample of local production and attempts to identify who its typical authors were and which song genres were most frequently published. It also points out certain similarities (or analogies) - in terms of themes, genres, and function - between Yiddish religious songs and the contemporary production of devotional Catholic songs in the Czech environment. Similar to Christian songs, Yiddish and Hebrew songs served for religious education and perhaps even as an ideological weapon. In conclusion, based on contemporary testimonies, it recalls the special role and popularity of music, singing, and local authors and foreign performers of synagogue songs in the culturally limited world of Prague&apos;s Jewish town, but also speculates again on the possibility that the higher number of religious Yiddish songs from Prague represented in Oppenheim&apos;s collection could be a remnant of Jewish opposition to contemporary Catholic propaganda. The distinctly Baroque themes and emotionality bring these songs closer to contemporary non-Jewish productions, and the author suggests that, despite all the differences between religions and cultural groups, we should consider similar themes more in terms of shared space, shared experiences, and shared emotionality.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Yiddish Songs from Prague

Popis výsledku anglicky

A relatively extensive collection of 43 songs (or poems) from Prague, mostly written in Yiddish, sometimes in Yiddish and Hebrew, is part of Rabbi David Oppenheim&apos;s collection, which is stored at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Most of these printed songs date from the second half of the 17th century and the first two decades of the 18th century, but some are a hundred years older. The article suggests that we understand this corpus as a representative sample of local production and attempts to identify who its typical authors were and which song genres were most frequently published. It also points out certain similarities (or analogies) - in terms of themes, genres, and function - between Yiddish religious songs and the contemporary production of devotional Catholic songs in the Czech environment. Similar to Christian songs, Yiddish and Hebrew songs served for religious education and perhaps even as an ideological weapon. In conclusion, based on contemporary testimonies, it recalls the special role and popularity of music, singing, and local authors and foreign performers of synagogue songs in the culturally limited world of Prague&apos;s Jewish town, but also speculates again on the possibility that the higher number of religious Yiddish songs from Prague represented in Oppenheim&apos;s collection could be a remnant of Jewish opposition to contemporary Catholic propaganda. The distinctly Baroque themes and emotionality bring these songs closer to contemporary non-Jewish productions, and the author suggests that, despite all the differences between religions and cultural groups, we should consider similar themes more in terms of shared space, shared experiences, and shared emotionality.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Bridges of Knowledge: Jewish Languages in Cultural Context

ISBN

978-90-04-73081-6

Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

189-211

Počet stran knihy

318

Název nakladatele

Brill

Místo vydání

Leiden

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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