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Shmerke Kaczerginski
… known as Ponar ), written in response to the mass murder of Lithuanian Jews in Ponary near Vilna. Full biographies: ' Shmerke …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… Jewish piety. At the age of 12 years, I was sent to Lithuanian jeshivas, where I remained five years. During … Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews were so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with … song; even Lewandowski seemed Germanized. The life of the Jews in Germany, too, was Germanized. This was not only …
Minhah
… it closes the twelve temporal hours of the day. Since the Jews of 19 th century Ashkenaz were usually under pressure … recited before the Ashrei. Many Ashkenazi and some Yemenite Jews do not add any prayers before Min h a—they rather begin … prayer is recited silently. This custom can be found in the Lithuanian Yeshivas who believe that extended prayers keep …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… the Halakhot that were customary for the Ashkenazi Jews in that period. His version would become the template of practice for all of the Jews of Ashkenaz. There are different traditions regarding … these verses out loud. In the late nineteenth century, in Lithuanian and Latvian synagogues, they were even sung as …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… Republic with full political and national rights for Jews.' Picture taken from the YIVO encyclopedia website . … to the Jewish worker rather than those of the wealthy Jews. The following segment raises the question of who will … der yiddisher arbeter Bund,” (long live the Russian, Lithuanian, and Polish Jewish labor Bund). This song clearly …
Worlds That Passed
… Zaḳs … A. S. Sachs … Jewish life and customs … Lithuania … Lithuanian jews … Eastern Ashkenazi … Abraham Simchah Sachs … Worlds …
Beroyges-tants
… the klezmorim . [In another description, from a wedding of Lithuanian Jews in America, c. 1959:] The guests stand in a large … Samuel Rappaport, on the religious life of Eastern European Jews, he records that the ‘beroyges’ dance, was arranged …
Kosher-tants (LKT)
… century. To them can be added the ethnographer of Lithuanian and White Russian Jews, Moshe Berlin, who brings in his study only the …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… deed] of dancing with or for the bride. Among Jews from the Bukovina region where Hasidism was … There also it was the same custom among the Hungarian Jews.” Ben-Ezra 1965, p. 27 . “When a girl becomes a wife, … century. To them can be added the ethnographer of Lithuanian and White Russian Jews, Moshe Berlin, who brings …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… [1] It has been retold by generation after generation of Jews in various vernacular languages, in both oral and … Isaac has constituted a common motif in works of art among Jews throughout the ages (Sabar 2009, 9–27). In Jewish … The Traditional Chant of the Synagogue According to the Lithuanian-Jerusalem Musical Tradition. Vol. 1. Jerusalem: …