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Mordkhe Shekhter
Itsye Mordkhe Shekhter was born on December 1927, in Czernowitz, Ukraine. He descended…
Hora (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…
Haggai Ben-Shammai
Haggai Ben-Shammai was born in Tel-Aviv in 1939, grew up in Jerusalem and has lived to…
Max Lempel
Max Lempel was born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900 into an assimilated…
Courtney Blue
Courtney is a graduate student at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, studying under…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…