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In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism
… attention on the role of literary translation and European models in the aesthetic development of Modern … music, aesthetics, and Jewish nationalism in fin-de-siecle Eastern Europe, I will explore how Idelsohn understood the …
Contemporary Jewish Music: A New Series of the JMRC (2009)
… second nature. An expert on the music of the Roma while in Europe, Hajdu focused on the musical traditions of the Eastern European Hassidim residing in Israel. Most notable was his …
Badhan
… at weddings, and at Hanukkah and Purim celebrations. In Eastern European Jewish communities, the badhan worked as a …
Klezmer (pl. Klezmorim)
… Eastern-European Jewish folk musician, generally instrumentalist. …
Mitsve Tants
… bride’s hand. The ritual originated with Jews from central Europe and it is first mentioned in the 16th century, though … was in use since the 14th century and probably migrated to eastern Europe in the 18th century at the latest. In Jewish musar …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… for all the Jerusalem Sephardim and members of other Middle Eastern Jewish congregations (such as the Persian, … them come from the Arabic-Andalusian tradition, with some eastern and even European influences. However, there are also unique …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… their reminiscences of Biblical chant. The “alternative” Eastern European melody of Shofet kol ha’arez bears the unmistakable … melodies, the “common” or Western and the “alternative” or Eastern, one have some common features: interesting motivic …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… source apparently moved eastwards, as it contains many Eastern Ashkenazi texts added later in its margins. Through … Ashkenazi liturgical poems such as Shofet kol ha’aretz to Eastern Europe. When Shofet kol ha’aretz appeared in printed prayers …
Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… connected to the ‘Ades’ synagogue , an important center of eastern hazzanut . Among other songs Avidany wrote ‘Nagila … songs that were written by poets of the Haskalah in Eastern Europe, and later on in Erets Yisrael and in the …
Moyshelekh Un Shloymelekh (part 2)
… a chilling reference to the old Jewish communities of Eastern Europe that vanished in the Holocaust. It can also be …