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Abyadi Ana
… on the day before) in Jewish communities throughout the Middle East and North Africa. At the center of the ceremony stands …
The Israeli Mediterranean Style
… color in music. It was also qualified as signon Mizrahi (Eastern or oriental style, i.e., of the Middle East, the cradle of Judaism, rather than East Asia) or …
Chasidic in America
… situates the song in an ambivalent position between the Eastern European Jewish and the Afro-American musical … American popular music to both the Hasidic niggun and the Eastern European Jewish instrumental repertoires, can be … ambivalent status placed the cantor as a kind of “spiritual middleman,” who negotiated “the realm between religion and …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… of the Tanna and his son, Rabbi El'azar are located, at least since the second half of the sixteenth century. Based … is shared by the verses and the refrain, attests to the Middle Eastern influence on the piece. The melodic range is …
Bazetsens (LKT)
… di kale . The bazetsns went the following way: In the middle of the room a stool was placed and there the bride … was one of the most important rituals of a traditional Eastern European Jewish wedding before the Second World … express the listeners’ feelings and make them cry... In the middle minor notes, the klezmorim would express the thoughts …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… A lively circle or line dance, the most common in East European Jewish wedding dance repertoire, in 4/4 … there husid or khosid )...” Feldman 1994, p. 32 . “In the middle of the street had to be the khupe , thereafter he … meal the bride and groom were seated on stools in the middle of the room (in other places they were seated both on …
Hora (LKT)
… The triple-meter hora, the primary form of the genre among East European Jews, is common in northeastern Romania and among Bukovina Ukrainians. Among … piece Khosidl or A Mitsve Tentsl but does not include the middle section. He recalls hearing it played in the 1910s by …
Beroyges-tants
… and wife would dance it...Since this dance is from the middle century and, therefore, mixed dancing was banned, … [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of … known to all, instantly they would form a circle and in the middle the two women... Little by little they approached …
Kosher-tants (LKT)
… where the other writes that at the end of a wedding-feast, when the time for the couple to be alone comes, people … the bridegrooms used to take the bride and place her in the middle of the room. A handkerchief was wrapped around her … men and women circled separately in a round... Right in the middle of the dance... the bridegrooms snatched the couple …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… of the Mitzvah dance, the bride was usually seated in the middle of a circle of chosen guests while the badhan … . “Mitzvah Dance ( Mitsve tentsl ). After the guests had feasted to their hearts’ content in the wedding halls, and … the bride and groom are seated on stools in the middle of the hall (in other places they are seated on the …