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Woody Guthrie's Hanukah Songs
… Within his vast oeuvre there are a handful of songs with Jewish themes, and a few of them are specifically related to Hanukah. Guthrie himself was not Jewish; however his second wife, Marjorie Mazia Greenblatt, … Guthrie met Marjorie in 1942 when she was performing a dance based on one of his songs. Their first daughter Cathy …
Hora (LKT)
… you get the full reference. “ Hora refers to a Romanian dance and musical genre of great diversity, comprising brisk … dance, cf. Bulg. krivo horo ] and other terms. American-Jewish musicians often refer to it as ‘slow hora.’ The … Europe, horas were frequently used as processional tunes at Jewish weddings and other celebrations.” Alpert 1993, p. 2 . …
Zhok (LKT)
… Europe, especially in Hungary, Moravia, and Rumania, Jewish youths would assemble on Saturday afternoons for … courtyard, which became popularly known by the name of dance they loved, the Joc , a type of hora common among … zhok as if it were a new innovation that was not really Jewish. He left Kiev in the Ukraine in the 1920’s perhaps. …
Tants nign (LKT)
… Yiddish terms tants nign or a tenzl . Other terms for dance tunes are hopke , dreidl , or redele (all used by … freilakhs and kadachke (used in various dynasties). Dance tunes have defined musical characteristics: duple … in the modern era. The dance-song was preserved by the Jewish masses a long time after the social dances had …
Hopke (LKT)
… pre-World War I]. Cahan 1957, p. 491 (#255) . “Other dances performed at weddings in East European communities … 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 …
Hopak (LKT)
… the full reference. “The principal forms [of Russian folk dance] are the korovod and the trepak, the former danced by young girls holding hands,...The popular Russian … the hopak . (The name hopak was folklorized into hopke .) Jewish kozachok melodies were borrowed, but in the klezmer …
Beroyges-tants
… citation, you get the full reference. “The [ beroyges ] dance ended, the song was stopped. The groom approached and … 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 …
Mekhutenim-tants
… 1266 . “The scholar Gabriel Grod published... ‘ mekhutonim dances’ [done] during the arrangement of the ‘tenoim’ ... … 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 …
Kosher-tants (LKT)
… Avraham Rekhtman derives that the kosher-tants is ‘the dance of the groom with the bride after the wedding-meal to … the the name of this dance (‘kosher dance’) is originally Jewish, in all instances its music was typically foreign and … the bride is a kosher one’ is far from in good taste for Jewish modesty... In newer times the maskilim began to wage …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… the full reference. “These two khusidlekh [Hasidic-style dance tunes, 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 …