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Israeli folksongs
* This entry is a summarized version of the full artice about Israeli folksongs by…
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
The beautiful Dutch synagogue is also known by its Ladino name, Esnoga, and is one of…
Had Gadya
Written in Aramaic, Had Gadya appears at the very end of the Passover Haggadah.…
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
The album includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews used to sing in events of the…
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«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
This article shows the crystallization of the prayer and singing style known as “…
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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
“The songs of Leibu await definitive professional evaluation,” wrote back in 1984 the…
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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…