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Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… of intensive study by a distinguished gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting … in the repertoire of Provençal and Central-European Jewish communities prior to its earliest appearance in print, …
Ve-Hi She-’Amda – Piyyut from the Passover Haggadah
… this piyyut, in order to emphasize the salvation of the Jewish nation from utter destruction. In Ashkenazi communities, V’hi Sh’amda stands out during the Seder …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… Jews used to sing in events of the life cycle in their communities in Turkey, the Balkans and Israel. The … בן-נאה, ירון 2008 Jews in the realm of the Sultans: Ottoman Jewish society in the seventeenth century . Tübingen: Mohr … Taurus. Goldberg, Harvey E. | 'גולדברג, הארוי א 2003 Jewish passages: cycles of Jewish life . Berkeley: …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… of Iyar—Lag Ba’Omer—among Sephardic and Ashkenazi communities in Israel, include four customs: the lighting of … the written sources, Yaari found that the “Musta'aravim” (Jewish residents of the Land of Israel, who, for … haircut. During these celebrations, members of the various Jewish communities sing piyyutim that were written in honor …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… singular khusid ] were cornerstones of Leon’s old-time, Jewish dance repertoire. He often referred to them as a … [ mitsve dance], alluding to their frequent use at Jewish weddings to accompany the mitsve [ritual … “Other dances performed at weddings in East European communities were:... Redl, Frailachs, Karahod, Hopke , …
Hora (LKT)
… dance, cf. Bulg. krivo horo ] and other terms. American-Jewish musicians often refer to it as ‘slow hora.’ The … from the contemporary hora popular in Orthodox and Hasidic communities. In a much wider area of Eastern Europe, horas were frequently used as processional tunes at Jewish weddings and other celebrations.” Alpert 1993, p. 2 . …
Zhok (LKT)
… 1987 #226-231 . (Musical notation included). “In many communities in Eastern Europe, especially in Hungary, Moravia, and Rumania, Jewish youths would assemble on Saturday afternoons for … zhok as if it were a new innovation that was not really Jewish. He left Kiev in the Ukraine in the 1920’s perhaps. …
Hopke (LKT)
… . “Other dances performed at weddings in East European communities were:... Redl, Frailachs, Karahod, Hopke , … the hopak . (The name hopak was folklorized into hopke .) Jewish kozachok melodies were borrowed, but in the klezmer … in the klezmer repertoire. They did not acquire a Jewish sound. The kozachoks and hopaks that were adopted are …
Beroyges-tants
… p. 1266 . “The ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ dances [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of the style of primary …
Mekhutenim-tants
… pp. 15-16 . “The ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ dances [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of the style of primary …