… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, politics, and society. Yet something of … with her father: “Shoshana’s love for dancing the horah and Russian kozatskas [read: kozachoks ] always remained with …

… (as can be found on the track's entry at the Freedman Jewish Sound Archive ) while others to Alexander Olshanetsky … song in an ambivalent position between the Eastern European Jewish and the Afro-American musical realms. Indeed Hankus … and ambiguous meeting point between traditional and modern culture which was strongly felt by Jews in the United States …

… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … of the mode. This may be understood as an instance of what Russian theorists call “mutability” ( ‘peremennost’ ); see … cantillation has co-existed with tonality in European culture since 1600. Ne’eman observes that melodic variants …

… of digital resources have enhanced the study of the Jewish liturgy helping us to make more accurate assessments … Mahzor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy in St. Petersburg D 101 (F 69720) includes … against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises …

… we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … Mahzor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy in St. Petersburg D 101 (F 69720) includes … against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises …

… most important rituals of a traditional Eastern European Jewish wedding before the Second World War....The non-metric … wedding scene. It is peformed by the State Ensemble of Jewish Folk Music of the Ukrainian S.S.R. recorded in the … di kale’ comes out an expression of the psychology of a Jewish woman...The musician knew the moods at that time, and …

… of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after … rather than from the emerging triumphalist Israeli Hebrew culture. The song belongs to the Ashkenazi repertoire for … and yet restrained intensity, recalling the performances of Russian folksongs. Indeed the musician Aharon Shefi vividly …

… USA).   … Sounds of Job in the American Midwest: A Serious “Jewish” Man vs. a “Christian” Tree of Life Ruth HaCohen … first film, the Coen brothers’ A Serious Man (2009), is “Jewish” in the sense that its protagonists are active members of a practicing Jewish community in a Minnesota suburbia. The second, …