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Documenting and Performing Ashkenazi Music
… Documenting and Performing Ashkenazi Music Chair: James Loeffler Yelena Irzabekova, Germany … Beregovski (1892-1961) the founder of Soviet Jewish ethnomusicology, the author of a multivolume edition on Jewish … review Beregovski introduced for the first time the term “Klezmer music”. Beregovski’s early publications focused on …

Hopak (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT compiles a wide array … on the historical and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from …
Zoock (Volkstanz) – Zhok (Folk dance)
… life. Stutschewsky wrote about this genre in his book on klezmer: The Zoock was performed especially as a Gas-nigun … to dance. Its origin is in the Moldavian and Rumanian music. The Zoock has well entered the klezmer repertoire, and several of these genres even carry …

Betlers-tants (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT compiles a wide array … on the historical and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from …
James Loeffler
… Ph.D. Columbia University, (2006), Dissertation: 'The Most Musical Nation: Jews, Culture and Nationalism in the Late … (1996); Founding Director, Vice-academic co-chair, Jewish Music Forum of the American Society for Jewish Music (New … Jewish composers; music in Yiddish culture; history of klezmer music in Eastern Europe and the United States. … …
Harry Kandel
… clarinetist and bandleader, one of the pioneers of modern klezmer music. He ran an orchestra which consisted of a variety of … : Harry Kandel's Orchestra - Yekatarislaver Bulgar: … Klezmer clarinetist & bandleader … 0 … American Klezmer …
Moshe "Musa" Berlin
… (Musa) berlin is a clarinet player and one of the leading Klezmer musicians in Israel. He was born in 1938 in Tel Aviv to a … then, it has been his main instrument. Musa’s interest in Klezmer music started at a young age, with annual visits to …

Tvile
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles a wide array of … on the historical and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from …
In the Fiddler's House: Itzhak Perlman
… Don Lenzer Famed classical violinist Itzhak Perlman joins klezmer bands and musicians, such as The Klezmatics and The Klezmer Conservatory Band. The songs that are performed are …

Kozatshok (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles a wide array of … on the historical and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from …