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Longa (LKT)

… music called longas were popular [in the Turkish musical culture]. Jews picked up on these. There are klezmer tunes …

Marsh (LKT)

… which were usually adopted from the surrounding non-Jewish cultures. The adoption of marches by Hasidim is part of the …

Alicia Svigals

… Svigals is the recipient of the Foundation for Jewish Culture's 2013 New Jewish Culture Network commission for her new score to the 1918 …

… that ‘from the music and its character it is very difficult to distinguish the sher from the freylakhs, if the … issue of partner dances between the two sexes, it is difficult to agree with the opinion of the researcher Yoachin …

Hag Purim – The story behind its melody

… in the text could be seen as a reflection of the socio-cultural shift in the way Purim is conceived by the secular …

Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies

… sort appears in many communities and it is usually difficult, if not impossible, to determine the directions of … differentiate their song from the ones from the surrounding cultures because the number thirteen is considered to be an … variants of “E h ad mi yodea” In Eastern European Jewish culture the model of “E h ad mi yodea” has been the basis …

Vals (LKT)

… meter, usually joyful. Waltzes were adopted from non-Jewish cultures by the Hasidic dynasties in Poland and Central …

The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition

… involvement in the musical activity of the surrounding culture. The Sephardic-Ottoman h azzan ’s understanding of … transition took place as part of a number of historical, cultural, and historical processes which occurred over the … into their piyyut tradition. Like Ottoman musical culture, this musical style was also based on the use of …