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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, … According to Karnes, folk songs were collected in Eastern Europe since the 1850s, decades after this practice … and their culture, subsequently, was part of the larger Eastern European Jewish space. Karnes maintains that this …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… in Buenos Aires), scion to a family from Stawiski (northeast Poland, near Bialystok), refers in this excerpt to his … today is not the original one, scholars should at least raise the possibility that a fully Aramaic version … Aramaic version which, as we have seen, is documented among Eastern European Jews, and the Arabic refrain of the …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… founders and managers of international trade organizations. Eastern and central European Jews began arriving in Holland … of this synagogue is the result of a mixture of Western and Eastern elements. A similar fusion is found in the …
Dobridzien (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Kosher-tants (LKT)
… where the other writes that at the end of a wedding-feast, when the time for the couple to be alone comes, people …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… composer Aleksandr Spendiarov: “You by birth are an Eastern person, for you the East, as they say, is in your blood, and precisely in this … of the efforts of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, at least until 1917. After 1917, the Russian Empire fractured …
Bazetsens (LKT)
… was one of the most important rituals of a traditional Eastern European Jewish wedding before the Second World …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… we dedicate the Song of the Month to a very popular Eastern European Ashkenazi melody that, in the early 1920s, … Israeli children. As a most widely recognized melody in the Eastern European Jewish world, the melody of “ H ag Purim” … of Sabbath table songs ( zemirot shabbat ) across the Eastern European Jewish diaspora. It was sung by families in …