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Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… been reflected in the emergence of three Yiddish dialects (Lithuanian Yiddish in the North, Polish and Ukrainian … operatic gestures, numerous nigunim by the Ukrainian and Lithuanian-Belarusian Hasidim adhered more closely to the … of Sabbath”)—appeared as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… [i.e in the district of Samogitian in northwestern Lithuania] who had to give up his trade and hide because he … twelve, had to wander from one yeshiva to the next through Lithuania and Poland, educating and feeding himself. … , teacher and prayer leader in Kurland, the El Dorado of Lithuania. There he married the daughter of a distiller at a …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian Jewish South Africa, and Midwestern American … in Jewish liturgical music. Dymont was born in Kovno, Lithuania (then part of Russia) in 1881. He left for Germany …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, Russians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, Belarussians, Latgalians, Livornians, … started collecting Jewish songs in 1899 in Keidan (Lithuania), and continued this task in the 1920s and 1930s … absent in Jewish folklore and music scholarship. In Lithuania (where Melngailis made his earliest transcriptions …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… The Traditional Chant of the Synagogue According to the Lithuanian-Jerusalem Musical Tradition. Vol. 1. Jerusalem: …
The Priestly Blessing in the Ashkenazi Synagogue: Ritual and Chant
… of the kohanim . All Jewish communities from Yemen to Lithuania cherish special chants for the ritual and they are …
Kabalos-Shabos (LKT)
… out to whom, and the klezmorim would play a march.” [Vilna, Lithuania, c. 1880s-90s]. Zizmor 1922a, p. 873 . For …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… a tradition that developed in the areas that comprise today Lithuania, Belarus, Western Russia, Ukraine and Poland and … a tradition that developed in the areas that comprise today Lithuania, Belarus, Western Russia, Ukraine and Poland and …
Vivat
… to the room, the guests cried out a ‘vivat’” [Vilna, Lithuania, c. 1890s-1900s]. Zizmor 1922a, p. 876 . … Vivat …
Tvile
… of Israel but in certain times also among Jewish Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine... ‘The klezmorim waited behind the … beer, and also did a tentsl with the klezmer .” [Vilna, Lithuania, c. 1870s-80s]. Zizmor 1922a, p. 873 . … Tvile …