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Mitsve Tants
The Mitsve Tants, or Kosher Tants, is a ritual dance imbued with mystical significance.…
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…
Had Gadya
Written in Aramaic, Had Gadya appears at the very end of the Passover Haggadah.…
Zalman Reyzn
Zalman Reisen was a philologist of the Yiddish language, a historian of literature, an…
Mordkhe Shekhter
Itsye Mordkhe Shekhter was born on December 1927, in Czernowitz, Ukraine. He descended…
Zhok (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Avraham Reyzen
Avraham Reyzen was a Yiddish writer, poet and editor, and the elder brother of the …
Kosher-tants (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…
Semele (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…