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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music traditions. He was also a public figure, … of a family of cantors and singers associated with Hassidic courts in Poland, most especially with the court of … and religious nationalism, popularizing tendencies and thoughtful scholarship, art and faith all converge in the …
Yizhak Edel
… Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a Hassidic scholar, took responsibility for his education, and … three years, an experience that influenced his educational thought. Beside Korcak, he taught in Yehudiya, a Zionist …
Mordekhai Zeira
… accompanying his father to the synagogue. He also heard Hassidic music in his house that was 'full of Jews who could sing a Hassidic Niggun and sing Russian Zionist songs,' [1] as … . Their names appeared together so many times, that many thought that Zeira's first name was Orland. Their …
Mitsve Tants
… It is performed today as the final ceremony of a Hassidic wedding, after the feast. Male members of the two … are invited to dance in turn with the bride. When a Hassidic rebbe is present, he is invited first. Each dancer … Dancing with the bride, especially the Tsadik’s dance, was thought to have a metaphysical meaning and power in the …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… its inroads into Jewish homes, more metric tunes (such as Hassidic melodies) took over texts of the Haggadah that were … as we have seen in the case of Kornitzer, as well as in Hassidic circles. … pentatonic learning tune. Concluding thoughts Four different musical …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… present century on Edison phonographic cylinders. It was thought that it was impossible to renew them, and look, with … editions of two volumes, no. 2 (Yiddish songs) and no. 4 (Hassidic niggunim). None other than the late Prof. Eda … was assigned to Yaacov Mazor, the most prominent scholar of Hassidic music at the JMRC. His work was completed, but in …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… most tunes from Beregovski’s entire selected collection of Hassidic nigunim that remained unpublished after he … no. 3 shows seven musical traits that are common to the Hassidic repertoire from Western Ukraine: Slow development … order of the rhythmic patterns is asymmetric and yet well thought out. Three main patterns (a, b, c) reoccur in …
A Nigun on a soff (chassidisch) – A Tune without Ending
… In coupling these two Hassidic tunes, nos. 7 and 8 – Lied ohne Worte and A Nigun … to hint at two sides of the same musical coin in Hasidic thought. Cyclical return and the eternal nature of time and …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… They only stayed in SA one year. This was the time everyone thought he would become a Christian because the only piano … names of the older 19 th century generation of cantors (of Hassidic background) from Galicia. In spite of his harsh …