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Jews in Music: from the Age of Enlightenment to the Mid-Twentieth Century
1st edition was published by Philosophical Library (NY) in 1959, under the title 'Jews…
A Cantor's Tale
Documentary. The tradition of Eastern European Jewish cantorial music is alive and well…
About the Jews of Yemen, A Vanishing Culture
This film, by renowned ethnomusicologist Johanna Spector, addresses the history and…
Brakha Tzefira
Brakha Tzefira was born in Jerusalem in 1910. Her father emmigrated from Yemen in 1887,…
Mordkhe Shekhter
Itsye Mordkhe Shekhter was born on December 1927, in Czernowitz, Ukraine. He descended…
Kosher-tants (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…
Polonaise
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
“The songs of Leibu await definitive professional evaluation,” wrote back in 1984 the…