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Mitsve Tants
… to eastern Europe in the 18th century at the latest. In Jewish musar literature and minhagim books of the 17th and …
Minhah
… at twilight and is one of the three daily services of the Jewish liturgy. It is commonly thought that the term Min h a … Lakol Shavi'i.” After the Shmona 'Esre Prayer In many Jewish communities, especially those in Israel, it is …
Dance tune (Niggun rikud)
… of Hassidic music , p. 240; see also Moshe Beregovski, Jewish Instrumental Folk Music , 2001, no. 85, 102. [2] …
Kolomeyke (LKT)
… repertoire consisted of local dance tunes of non-Jewish origin played by klezmorim for non-Jews, and also, at …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … which up to then had been predominant in the Sephardi Jewish liturgy and piyyut singing in the Middle East, went … Prayer of every Sabbath in the annual cycle. In 1901, the Jewish immigrants of Aleppo in Jerusalem established the …
Hasidism
… grew out the desire to replace the overly academic model of Jewish observance with a focus on prayer, spirituality and …
Ma'oz Tzur
… Temple in Jerusalem, praise for God’s deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt, Babylonian exile and Haman’s plot, …
Im nin'alu
… of the four performances (2, 4) the traditional Yemenite Jewish lore is predominant; the other two (1, 3) exemplify … melody, which was popularized by Bracha Zefira among the Jewish community of Palestine. It is sung in a responsorial …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… language like pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock … Hanoch Avenary, “The Aspects of Time and Environment in Jewish Traditional Music,” Israel Studies in Musicology, IV …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… to serve as hazzan (cantor) of the flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. In this city, he taught the Oriental … Turkey and Greece. Through this collection, the Western Jewish communities became familiar with the songs of Rabbi … version, performed by the most distinguished Bukharian Jewish cantor Ezra Malakov from Queens (New York), is one of …