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Tish
… table. In the Hasidic movement, the Tish is the public feast of the rabbi (see: Admor ), held with a large crowd. During the feast, the rabbi and/or his Hasidim, sing niggunim , Zemirot … rabbi, the 'Torah.' The giving of a Torah sermon during a feast is not a Hasidic invention. Since the Mishna era, …
Freylekhs
… comprised the core of the traditional Klezmer repertoire in Eastern Europe, and were the most popular amongst the Dance … a researcher of Klezmer culture and the Ashkenazi dance in Eastern Europe and in the U.S., the Freylekhs dance has a …
Musical instruments of the Mountain Jews
… or 'ghumuz' in Juhuri and Qumiq), adopted by musicians from eastern Caucasus (also Azerbaijan and western Caucasus) in … of the same name which is found throughout the Near East . Komoncha is a spike fiddle of four strings. Widespread in Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, eastern Caucasus and Persia, the instrument is decorated …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… In the spring of 1897, on the eve of the Russian Orthodox Easter, two Russian musicians met in an encounter that was …
Hora
… 2 . The Rumanian Hora was meant for playing at the wedding feast, not during a dance, and sometimes during the mystical …
A letter to mother - A Brivele der Mamen
… Niggun … Immigration … World War I - 1st World War - WW1 … Eastern Europe … A letter to mother - A Brivele der Mamen …
Almonds and Raisins
… Many of these films deal with issues that arose with the eastern European Jewish immigrants who arrived in New York …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… Three Pilgrimage Festivities and the High Holy Days. The Eastern European communities took the limitations the … for the Priestly Blessing. Paradoxically, it was, at least in part, because the Ashkenazi Diaspora communities … of the Priestly Blessings of the Ashkenazi synagogue from east to west, one finds that the melodies may range from …
Kedusha
… have a unique melody. However, in the Ashkenazi Nussach of Eastern Europe, for example, there is a tendency to perform …
Elohim Eshala
… late Romantic techniques employed to represent the “Middle East,” underscores the composer's classical European … as the solo clarinet in the opening that recalls in fact Eastern European Jewish music. The attempt in the first … the song accompanied by a sharqi ensemble (lit. “Middle Eastern” Arab ensemble). This recording of the song …