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Sher
… folk dance, done by four or eight couples, mostly young people. The folk translate the name of this dance as … not only to [modern couple dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise, … in many Jewish communities and especially in Jewish Ashkenazi communities, Poland, Italy and Turkey, an issue …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… for You listen with compassion to the prayer of Your people Israel. Blessed are You, Lord, who listens to prayer. … text. A number of melodies for 'Shema' Koleinu' written by Ashkenazi composers in the twentieth century are in the … route and set the melody in the major scale. In Ashkenazi cantorial music, the major scale and its …
Chasidic in America
… on the album, many of which were based on the traditional Ashkenazi nusa h for the Haggadah, were two songs that … its extreme virtuosity rendered it impossible for regular people around the seder table to sing it. Thus also in its …

Freylekhs (LKT)
… near Kiev ca. 1900-1915, includes following data: “Eight people form a circle, all holding hands at a natural low … Bessarabia from the beginning of the 19th Century you had Ashkenazi Jews coming in large numbers. After Russia annexed … vocal music.” Phillips 1996b, p. 178 . “The Palestinian Ashkenazic musicians copied the same repertoire that we had …

Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… influence upon the local, young, Sephardic scholars. These Ashkenazi intellectuals spread the literature of the … were the foremost Sephardic intellectuals of the time, people such as Rabbi Baruch Ben Yitzchak Metani (BNYM), and … notation. After some time, he became acquainted with the people of this profession. It is important to add that Rabbi …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… in Holland in the 17 th century and quickly founded an Ashkenazi community that became the largest Jewish community … 600 members, most of them—like most of the members of the Ashkenazi community—living in the outskirts of the city. … later by contact with the neighboring non-Jewish and Ashkenazi communities. In a 1972 article published in …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… among the different regions inhabited by eastern Ashkenazim, which since the seventeenth century had been … the Hebrew zemiroth —chants) , that evolved in the eastern Ashkenazi communities before the emergence of Hasidism and … infinitely richer than those available to Hasidim, ordinary people whose vocal abilities were rather limited. …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… remain Oriental in character, since we were an Oriental people in the Land of Israel” (Geshuri 1943). A long section … about Jewish cowboys (Gottlieb 2004, 64). Also Yemenite-Ashkenazi intermarriages in Israel during the 1930s and … which system of accentuation served the interlocutors—the Ashkenazi system, where the accent most often falls on the …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in this formulation consisted of the commemoration of a people’s collective suffering and the veneration of its … was going on in his room. We could see different types of people and their varied manners of expressing their feelings … the spoken language in opposition to the orphanage of the Ashkenazi community run by the Haredi community where …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… when compared to the predominantly canonical Sephardic and Ashkenazi ones in all their variants. Although aligned … Ages. Peculiarly enough, these Jews accepted the German Ashkenazi Pessach tune of Adir Hu.” “Scientific” in …