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Mordkhe Shekhter
Itsye Mordkhe Shekhter was born on December 1927, in Czernowitz, Ukraine. He descended…
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
Introduction
It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv, aka the “…
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof HaGalil) neighborhood…