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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…
István Anhalt
Istavan Anhalt was born in Budapest, Hungary, where he studied composition with Kodály…
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…
Mordkhe Shekhter
Itsye Mordkhe Shekhter was born on December 1927, in Czernowitz, Ukraine. He descended…
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Freylekhs (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Bessie Schonberg
Bessie Schönberg was born in Hanover, Germany in December 1906, the youngest of three…
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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…
Experiencing Devekut
“Among hasidim the niggun not only reveals the state of mind of…