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Sara Levi-Tanai
… to dance and theater in Israel. Her works, deeply rooted in Jewish and Yemenite traditions, significantly shaped … Levi-Tanai was born in Jerusalem to a family of Yemenite Jewish immigrants. Her parents emigrated from Yemen as part … she worked as a teacher and kindergarten instructor, using music and dance to educate children and pass on Yemeni …
Sarah Harat
… scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish girls at the time. Sarah was exposed to the … her grandmother and mother in Sana’a for henna and wedding events, [ 1 ] and in those occasions her musical skills surfaced already at a young age when she …

Vivat
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … quadrille with him in the middle, just as at a wedding in a little Jewish town.” [Nikolayev, Kherson province, afterwards the …

Marsh (LKT)
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … Ukraine, 1820s-30s]. Fridkin 1925, p. 46 . “A Jewish wedding in the shtetl was a holiday... When Arish the …

Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… 17, 1859. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Navon, was one of the Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a … of Adrianpole excelled especially in Hebrew poetry and in music, two fields in which Isaac Eliyahu Navon excelled as … and Zabotinsky. An interesting anecdote recounts the wedding ceremony of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, which was held in …

Freylekhs
… term that, in this case, signifies a musical genre. It seems that Freylekhs tunes comprised … of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). [1] Moshe Beregovski, Jewish Instrumental Folk Music , Vol. III (М.Я.Береговский. … titled by Kostakowsky as H asidl in International Hebrew Wedding Music , p. 88. [8] S ee: Mazor 2000, pp. 33-34. …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. Its … unique texts such as the selection of Psalm verses whose music is discussed below. The memory of the melodies and … tunes differ to a great extent from those of all other Jewish communities. They contain elements of original Jewish …

Zhok (LKT)
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … Europe, especially in Hungary, Moravia, and Rumania, Jewish youths would assemble on Saturday afternoons for … “While the zhok had already been transformed into several wedding genres (such as mazltov and opfihren di makhetonim …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original … Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in Jewish communities on Purim, especially in Germany, is one … and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be …

Hopke (LKT)
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … I]. Cahan 1957, p. 491 (#255) . “Other dances performed at weddings in East European communities were:... Redl, … the hopak . (The name hopak was folklorized into hopke .) Jewish kozachok melodies were borrowed, but in the klezmer …