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  • Laylah wa Laylah_ and his Terminal Essay, including the Section which is omitted in all later editions, and certain other unpublished notes of his on the same subject.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II W. H. Wilkins 1882

  • The songs are a little more diverse on this set: "Laylah" is very eerie and dramatic, "Khebar" has an almost-pointillist arrangement with some very catchy melodies that evoke a bustling desert village, and "Idalah-Abal" is a nocturnal piece centered around a gorgeous cello theme and peppered with a constellation of effervescent cymbals and reflective drumming.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2008

  • The songs are a little more diverse on this set: "Laylah" is very eerie and dramatic, "Khebar" has an almost-pointillist arrangement with some very catchy melodies that evoke a bustling desert village, and "Idalah-Abal" is a nocturnal piece centered around a gorgeous cello theme and peppered with a constellation of effervescent cymbals and reflective drumming.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2008

  • The songs are a little more diverse on this set: "Laylah" is very eerie and dramatic, "Khebar" has an almost-pointillist arrangement with some very catchy melodies that evoke a bustling desert village, and "Idalah-Abal" is a nocturnal piece centered around a gorgeous cello theme and peppered with a constellation of effervescent cymbals and reflective drumming.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2008

  • The songs are a little more diverse on this set: "Laylah" is very eerie and dramatic, "Khebar" has an almost-pointillist arrangement with some very catchy melodies that evoke a bustling desert village, and "Idalah-Abal" is a nocturnal piece centered around a gorgeous cello theme and peppered with a constellation of effervescent cymbals and reflective drumming.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2008

  • From time to time, Israeli performers have taken first place at international song festivals, with women predominating in this group: The songs “Stav” (Autumn; performed by Esther Ofarim) and “Laylah ve-Ashan” (Night and Smoke; performed by Rivka Raz), both composed by Moshe Wilensky, won prizes at the Sopot song festival in Poland in 1962 and 1963, respectively.

    Hebrew Song, 1880-2000. 2009

  • Goldberg did not lay down her pen as a result, but the final collection of poems published during her lifetime, Im ha-Laylah ha-Zeh (This Night, 1964), is generally described as “stripped” of such tools as style, meter or form, showing the influence of the poetic changes prevalent in Hebrew poetry of the 1950s and 1960s.

    Lea Goldberg. 2009

  • Sefer ha-Laylah Tov (The goodnight book, 1977) helps lull the child to sleep.

    Children's Literature in Hebrew. 2009

  • But, as Laylah anticipated, she is brought to the attention of the emperor where she delays her death by telling him the story of why she came to him, stretching the story out night after night after night, a la Sheherazade.

    The New Space Opera, part 1 adamosf 2007

  • But, as Laylah anticipated, she is brought to the attention of the emperor where she delays her death by telling him the story of why she came to him, stretching the story out night after night after night, a la Sheherazade.

    Archive 2007-10-01 adamosf 2007

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