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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 …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… in God's strength, and be ye strong, My people, and His law obey, Then will He pardon sin and wrong, Then mercy … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … also attested in several medieval manuscripts of the Roman Jewish rite available at the IMHM catalogue. The persistence …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … Synagogues,” in Sacred Sound and Social Change , eds. Lawrence A. Hoffman and Janet R. Walton (Notre Dame and …