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Freylekhs
Yiddish term, popularly used to refer to a joyful Niggun, and is still used as…
Hora
Origin of the term
The word originates from Rumanian. As an ancient term it meant a…
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
The Yiddish language, which probably began to develop around the tenth century A.D. in…
Steiger
A term in use in the European Jewish musical tradition to refer to the different modal…
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
The beautiful Dutch synagogue is also known by its Ladino name, Esnoga, and is one of…
Racheli Galay
Racheli Galay is a cellist, educator, and researcher specializing in Jewish music and…
The Role of Jewish Music in Building a Nation: Composer, Cellist and Researcher Joachim Stutschewsky (1891-1982)
The lecture “The Role of Jewish Music in Building a Nation: Composer, Cellist and…
Andalusian Nuba
In this article we will review the development of the Nuba, which is considered the…
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…
Yekhiel Yeshaye Trunk
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Yekhiel Yeshaye Trunk was a Yiddish writer, researcher of the history…