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Shemele (LKT)

… dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of the style of primary …

Karahod (LKT)

… “Other dances performed at weddings in East European communities were:... Redl, Frailachs, Karahod, Hopke , …

Redl (LKT)

… . “Other dances performed at weddigns in East European communities were:... Redl, Frailachs, Karahod, Hopke , …

Koyletsh-tants (LKT)

… with lit candles usually inserted inside was known in most communities by the name ‘khale tants’ meaning ‘the dance …

… in 1492 and spread around the Mediterranean. Sephardic communities in northern Morocco and in parts of the Ottoman … various countries where they settled. In their diasporic communities Sephardim sang a repertoire of songs in Ladino, … Sephardic romances: in the Eastern-Mediterranean Sephardic communities such as in Greece and Turkey, and in the …

Marsh (LKT)

… Members of the Boyan community and young Hasidim of other communities use this term broadly to refer to joyful …

Sher

… much earlier than the nineteenth century, in many Jewish communities and especially in Jewish Ashkenazi communities, Poland, Italy and Turkey, an issue which we do … who heard this song sung by boys imitating the Haredi communities standing beneath the window of the wedding hall …

Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies

… the idea of a number riddle of this sort appears in many communities and it is usually difficult, if not impossible, … 1988: 66) Variations from Sephardic and Eastern Jewish communities “E h ad mi yodea” began to appear in … in Yiddish and in Russian appeared in the Eastern European communities. The non-Ashkenazi versions, on the other hand, …

The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition

… as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire during … tradition found among the descendants of the Jewish communities exiled from Spain to the lands of Islam are … of the liturgical and para-liturgical musical tradition of communities that descended from Jews expelled from Spain who …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections

… I knew, the same one that is sung today in all the Jewish communities. At the beginning, neither the song nor the … found in the liturgical repertory of the Western Sephardic communities. It is the melody of the piyyut Lekh le-shalom … liturgical melodies originated in the Spanish-Portuguese communities of Venice and Livorno and migrated from there …