Honga (LKT)
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Hopak (LKT)
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Hopke (LKT)
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Hopkele (LKT)
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Hora
Origin of the term
The word originates from Rumanian. As an ancient term it meant a circular folk dance. Later, it came to signify also a specific dance. The term is also used for two kinds of dance melodies in the Rumanian and Moldavian folklore: slow with triple meter, and fast with duple meter.…
Hora (LKT)
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Israeli folksongs
* This entry is a summarized version of the full artice about Israeli folksongs by Talila Eliram. To read the full article, see below.
The genre of Israeli folksongs amalgamates within it songs that deal mostly with themes that the majority of the Jewish population of Israel (not including the…
Iyr
The Iyr, also known in Juhuri as Uylov or Uylomish and in the Kabardin dialect as Ghiyr or Ghibzi, is a genre found among all Turkish peoples, but among the Jews appears only in the Khéiytoghi tradition. These are long, complex compositions usually consisting of three parts. The opening is a free…
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked under the direction of Prof. Amnon Shiloah of the Hebrew University, an eminent scholar of music in…
Kabalat Shabat
Kabalat Shabat refers to the part of the Friday evening service that precedes the regular Arvit prayer and welcomes in the Sabbath.
This prayer begins before darkness and in some conservative congregations, no later than a half an hour after sundown. The origin of this custom comes from the…
Kabalos-Shabos (LKT)
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Kaboles-Ponem (LKT)
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