Gazlen-tants (LKT)
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Foxtrot (LKT)
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Hopkele (LKT)
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Kabalos-Shabos (LKT)
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Gezungnungs-marsh (LKT)
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Niggun rikud
See: Dance Tune
Niggun dvekut
See: Cleving tune
Niggun
A monophonic folk music composition, vocal or instrumental, with or without text, consisting of one or more sections. Niggunim can sometimes be up to twenty eight or even thirty two sections. see for example the great 'Azkara' niggun of the Modzhitz dynasty (Vinaver, no. 47, pp. 156-163). The term…
Ma'oz Tzur
Hymn sung in the synagogue or at home after the lighting of the Chanukah menorah. The original text included six stanzas expressing hope for the reestablishment of the Temple in Jerusalem, praise for God’s deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt, Babylonian exile and Haman’s plot, and for the…
Megillah
Lit. Scroll. Name given to the biblical Book of Esther, one of the five scrolls.
Mekhutenim-tants
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Meshoyrer
Pl. Meshoyrerim. Apprentice to the Hazzan, or Synagogue choirboy.