… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and sound studies, political … of religion and relationships between Europe and the Middle East. Her current research project chronicles the …

… the largest non-European record company active in the Middle East during the phonograph era; [1] from here onwards, I … from the Nahda period and/or the liturgical practices of Middle Eastern Jews. While everyone from the Jewish side was …

התקליטור שלפנינו מוקדש לפיוטים של יהודי אזור תפילאלת, ובמיוחד למורשת הצדיק הנערץ רבי…

… for Motzei Shabbat. It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of melodies and textual … is sung only among Sephardic Jews and those from the Middle-Eastern communities. It is possible to distinguish … … Jewish … Iraq … Baghdad … Ottoman … North Africa … Middle East … Musical … Traditions … “Eli Eliyahu:” The …

… on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a tradition that developed in … of Isaiah 40:27 with etnaḥta at the end and katon in the middle. The brackets show that the level-two katon phrase … musical features of each of the modes. [27] I will take a middle road: I will work with variants, but I will not focus …

… varies according to community. [3] For example in the south-eastern city of Rada'a, which once housed a considerable … ceremony is practiced by Jewish communities throughout the Middle East and North Africa and, as in the case of the Yemenite …

… and commercial recordings throughout the European, Middle Eastern and American Jewish diasporas, was a crucial … utmost case shows how widespread our song was through the Middle East. [44] Even in the present, the singing of …

… ago and that it was ‘Jewishized’ to a great extent (at least musically). A broader, more definitive statement can be … the ‘sher’ dance was even in use among Jews during the Middle Ages and moved with them over time to Eastern Europe. … and the main dance for the young people was ‘vals’... Middle-aged Jews would dance ‘balgareske,’ ‘kozatshok,’ and …

…  included).  “Other dances performed at weddings in East European communities were:... Redl, Frailachs, Karahod, … 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 …

… achieved currency among klezmorim throughout a wide area of Eastern Europe. Primarily intended for listening rather than … influence heard in the melody is probably Ukrainian. In the middle part of the melody one also hears the intonations of … is a folk form indigenous to Roumania, and is related to Middle Eastern musical styles. Hence, there is nothing …

… get the full reference.   “ Bulgar or bulgarish is a common East European Jewish music and dance form, usually in 2/4 … to dance. The dances were varied according to generation... Middle-aged Jews would dance [sic]  ‘balgareske,’ … piece Khosidl or A Mitsve Tentsl but does not include the middle section. He recalls hearing it played in the 1910s by …

… Hasidic style, in a stately 2/4 rhythm. In some regions of Eastern Europe, synonomous with freylekhs.” Alpert 1996b, p. … piece Khosidl or A Mitsve Tentsl but does not include the middle section. He recalls hearing it played in the 1910s by klezmorim from the East Galician town of Sniatyn... The first section is a very …