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Hora
Origin of the term
The word originates from Rumanian. As an ancient term it meant a…
Brakha Tzefira
Brakha Tzefira was born in Jerusalem in 1910. Her father emmigrated from Yemen in 1887,…
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
The Yiddish language, which probably began to develop around the tenth century A.D. in…
Otto Klemperer's Long Journey though his Times
Directed by Philo Bregstein
Otto Klemperer was one of the morst prominent conductors…
Singing in the Dark
Directed by Max Nosseck
This film is one of the first Hollywood films to deal…
Das Reichsorchester
Directed by Enrique Sánchez Lansch
This film reveals the story of the Berlin…
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…
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Kosher-tants (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
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Mitsve-tants (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
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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…