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Tants (Alter yidisher) (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Sarah Gorby
Sarah Gorby, born in 1900 in Kishinev, Bessarabia (now Chișinău, Moldova), was a…
Zhok (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Täräkämä (1)
Täräkämä is a quick dance whose name probabl originated in the village of Tarakama…
Jeff Klepper
… around the globe. He also co-edited the song section in the Reform prayer book, Mishkan T’filaih, and co-founded with …
Responsorial Singing
“Call and response,” “responsive,” or “responsorial” is a singing performance style in…
The Kol Nidre Tune
… from Geonic times in Babylonia to the ninteenth-century Reform in Germany. It continues with an exploratin of …
Kale baveynen (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Diwan
In Arab culture, a Diwan is an anthology of poems by one or several poets. In the…
Haim Effendi
In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few…