(756 results found)
Kabalat Shabat
Kabalat Shabat refers to the part of the Friday evening service that precedes the…
![concept-related-content-placeholder](/themes/custom/jewishmusic/images/related_content_Concepts_missing_item.jpg)
Heikhal Hanegina (the Hall of Music)
A term from the Kabbalah, that refers to a heavenly hall in which entrance is permitted…
Contrafactum
A term borrowed from medieval Christianity. It refers to a technique of…
Seliha-Selihot
The word Seliha (plural- Selihot) means forgiveness in Hebrew.
In the singular form…
![concept-related-content-placeholder](/themes/custom/jewishmusic/images/related_content_Concepts_missing_item.jpg)
Society for Jewish Folk Music
Violins, Voice and Jews
In the spring of 1897, on the eve of the Russian Orthodox…
Hora
Origin of the term
The word originates from Rumanian. As an ancient term it meant a…
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
Research on the image of the Jew in eighteenth-century literature and theater has not…
A letter to mother - A Brivele der Mamen
Directed by Joseph Green
Classic Yiddish film from 1939 with music by Abe Ellstein…
About the Jews of Yemen, A Vanishing Culture
This film, by renowned ethnomusicologist Johanna Spector, addresses the history and…
![concept-related-content-placeholder](/themes/custom/jewishmusic/images/related_content_Concepts_missing_item.jpg)
Ne’ilah
Nei’la is the fifth and last service of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). In contrast to…