… melody ( beniggun valuchu ) was because in Walachia the Jews suffered the greatest cruelties of the tyrants … in which only the first and third beats are accented. Among Jews, the volekhl is most often played in conjunction with … volekhls, shers, kozakl, polke ... Eastern European Jews were accustomed to invite each guest to an especially …

… The Seliha genre blossomed during the golden age of the Jews in Spain during which many were written and their style … on the passing year. Sephardic and oriental Jews maintain the tradition of reciting Selihot during this … Preservation and Diffusion of the Heritage of the Libyan Jews, 2007). … The Seliha "Yisrael Nosha Be-Adonai Teshu'at …

… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German … [before] dawn we would leave the house, go hiking in the mountains, and wait for the sunrise. The sky would fill with … the Arab. Frequently he tried to hide from the Arab in the mountains we passed through. The poor man became alarmed …

… persistence of the song in the memory of Eastern European Jews but also of the resilience of Yiddish culture during … front of the Santa Caterina monastery on the slopes of the mountain considered by tradition as Mount Sinai. It was a … of pyramids, There was a king, wicked and evil; There all Jews were His servants, his slaves. Precious children …

… set of such verses included in the liturgical order of the Jews of Provençe, the subject of this Song of the Month, … called Minhag Carpentras or Rit Comtadin was used by the Jews of the Papal States of southern France, an area also … decay, the result of the resocialization of the Comtadin Jews into the mainstream of post-revolutionary French Jewry …

… This collection reflects the synagogue tradition of Ottoman Jews residing in the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire …

… prayer books even before the final expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. Moreover, nocturnal study and … sung are borrowed from the musical culture of the Sephardi Jews of Spain (tunes of Judeo-Spanish songs) and of the … as the basis of the religious music of the Sephardi Jews in the Ottoman Empire, from the sixteenth century until …

… to Berlin, the rapidly growing hub for Eastern European Jews seeking modern education, studied at a gymnasium and … with its mixture of [music from the] peoples within which [Jews] dwelled and to introduce instead the song that … time, he found an affinity between Yemenites and Ashkenazi Jews from Poland (i.e. not from Germany!), a connection that …

… . [In another description, from a wedding of Lithuanian Jews in America, c. 1959:] The guests stand in a large … Samuel Rappaport, on the religious life of Eastern European Jews, he records that the ‘beroyges’ dance, was arranged … danced with Gitele ‘a beroyges tants’ ” [Turun, Carpathian Mountains, pre-World War II]. Hagalili 1956, p. 163 .  “ …