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Mazltov (LKT)
… a wedding someone greets the bride and groom and their in-laws through dancing. Everyone sits in a circle. At the … the definite form of this dance. It occurs frequently in Jewish dances, but as a phenomenon of an improvisational … part of the melody is from Meir Noy, as he heard it at Jewish weddings in Kolomeyke ( nign ‘mazl-tov’ )...” …
Polka
… up a sher , a polke , a beroyges-tants . This time the in-laws also danced.”[Kremenits, Poland, pre-World War II]. … in the modern era. The dance-song was preserved by the Jewish masses a long time after the social dances had …
Sher
… “Sher: One of the most common dance forms in the Jewish repertoire, similar to a square dance or a Russian … their weddings and celebrations, to which they invited Jewish musicians. The Ukrainian youth there danced the šer … up a sher, a polke, a beroyges-tants. This time the in-laws also danced.”[Kremenits, Poland, pre-World War II]. …
Tish-nign (LKT)
… the march to the xupe [wedding canopy], leading the in-laws, etc.).” Beregovski 1937 [= Beregovski/Slobin 1982, p. …
Tvile
… ancient tribes of Israel but in certain times also among Jewish Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine... ‘The klezmorim … behind the synagogue until the bride appeared with the in-laws [for the tvile ]. They played all the way there and …
Vals (LKT)
… [and a freylekhs ]... were folk-dances for adults and in-laws. The youth strutted its wares in waltzes, krakoviaks , … waltz meter, usually joyful. Waltzes were adopted from non-Jewish cultures by the Hasidic dynasties in Poland and … year was 1895... After the ceremony, as is customary in a Jewish wedding, the newlyweds were led into a private …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its practice at ceremonies of Jewish institutions, synagogues, schools and youth … the Knesset in an amendment to the “Flag and Coat-of-Arms Law” (now called “The Flag, Coat-of-Arms, and National …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is sung … h enna ceremony as part of the repertoire of Yemenite Jewish women singers. In Yemen, the separation of men and … qalbha qasī, Qad ḥammalatnī al-ḥaṭab walma – cala rasī Law zawajunī bnaye bint al-khabbaza, Al-wajh zay al-qamar …
Vivat
… with him in the middle, just as at a wedding in a little Jewish town.” [Nikolayev, Kherson province, afterwards the … “At a wedding they used to play in honor of each in-law a ‘vivat’ and in the morning later a ‘frimorgns’ or a … The groom goes first and after him all the remaining in-laws. As soon as they enter, the klezmer play a freylekhs …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a … in older notations by Abraham Binder (1959) and Cantor Lawrence Avery (unpublished), and they are published and …