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Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… guests made one of the ‘sheve brokhes,’ they recited the grace-after-meals, and they proceeded to the kosher-tants’ … Heler 1939, p. 634 . “The wedding meal ends with the usual grace after meals... [which] is followed by dances, of which …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… It should come as little surprise, then, to detect the traces of empire in the aesthetics of Jewish composers. The … the sole way to be a successful Russian composer was to embrace his own Jewish ethnic heritage. But this casual … believed that the Jews were an intrinsically gifted musical race. In the words of violinist Mischa Elman’s father, …
Karahod (LKT)
… (dance), circle.” Weinreich 1977, p. 429 . “After the grace-after-meals the bridegrooms used to take the bride and …
Longa (LKT)
… picked up on these. There are klezmer tunes that can be traced to these, mixed with hasapikos, a Greek urban dance.” …
Mazltov (LKT)
… calls aloud the name of each woman present, who then embraces the bride and completes a circle with her. The wedding …
Sher
… sherele -- scissors) tends to a more calm rhythm and to graceful expression. The klezmorim knew well how to discern … not available and the music is not available we could not trace the development of the Jewish sher until it reached the … known as the ‘sherele’) tends to a more quiet rhythm and a graceful expressiveness. The klezmorim knew well how to …
Skotshne/Skochne
… 1973: 41). One finds the skoczek among Polish dances (Stracewski 1901: 717), and in the Czech repertoire there is a …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… the words ‘ Noam Sephardi ’ … not only has the ‘ noam ’ [grace] vanished from our prayers, but the ‘ noam ’ has also …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… When in the New York Tribune of September 26, 1915, I traced back its age as demonstrably earlier that 1750, … Hypothesis Also Ashkenazi melodies competed in the race for the origins of the tune of Hatikvah . The famous … [34] List’s arguments showed that it is impossible to trace clear-cut genealogies of such a widely diffused melodic …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… original practice by deductive methods (Weil 1995), and trace historical continuities and discontinuities (Avenary …