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Betlers-tants (LKT)
… situation of most Jews at this time) were invited to feast; in return for, or rather, in addition to that honor, … Lapson 1943, p. 458 . “Well-to-do families arranged a feast for the paupers of the community a day or two before …
Khosid/Khosidl (LKT)
… Hasidic style, in a stately 2/4 rhythm. In some regions of Eastern Europe, synonomous with freylekhs.” Alpert 1996b, p. … hearing it played in the 1910s by klezmorim from the East Galician town of Sniatyn... The first section is a very …
Bulgar (LKT)
… get the full reference. “ Bulgar or bulgarish is a common East European Jewish music and dance form, usually in 2/4 … of the American-Jewish repertoire, popular in parts of Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. … line, or couple dance deriving from the Bessarabian (East Romanian) dance bulgareasca, literally ‘Bulgarian …
Doyne (LKT)
… achieved currency among klezmorim throughout a wide area of Eastern Europe. Primarily intended for listening rather than … doina and other contemplative, free-meter genres in the East European Jewish tradition, including cantorial … the doina itself, which is performed at the wedding feast, primarily at the table, there are also other works in …
Taksim (LKT)
… to the non-Jewish epic ballads from Wallachia in Southeastern Romania... Improvisations like taksim and doyne were …
Volekh (LKT)
… a ‘dobridzshen,’ without a kale-bazetsenish ; a wedding-feast without a ‘volekhl,’ or a ‘pastukhel’ ... He was no … such as freylekhs, volekhls, shers, kozakl, polke ... Eastern European Jews were accustomed to invite each guest …
Pastukhel (LKT)
… a strange land with strange weddings... [where] a wedding-feast [happens] without a ‘volekhl,’ or a ‘pastukhel’ ...” …
Karahod (LKT)
… included). “Other dances performed at weddings in East European communities were:... Redl, Frailachs, Karahod, …
Yekhiel Yeshaye Trunk
… many books. Full biography at The YIVO Encyclopedia Jews in Eastern Europe (Author: Jan Schwarz) A list of his …
Poyln
… … New York … … 1;2 … 1946 … I. J. Trunk … Polish Jewry … Eastern Ashkenazi … Yekhiel Yeshaye Trunk … Poyln …