(195 results found)
Freylekhs (LKT)
… constitutes a sister-repertoire to the niggun-Meron of Israel....The fact that it is at Meron that our particular … with a different ending form in the style of the period....Nearly all the melodies reach their peak on the second phrase … [New York, pre-World War I]. Raboy 1920, p. 25 . “In his early years performing [this doyne ] for Brooklyn …
Hora (LKT)
… and the dance movements are distinct both from the lively Israeli dance in duple meter bearing the same name, and from … dance’), or ‘slow hora.’ Not to be confused with the brisk Israeli dance of the same name.” Alpert 1996b, p. 58 . ( … dance originating in the Balkans and taking root in the early 1900s. Its Palestinian Jewish version was originated …
Beroyges-tants
… Poland, c. 1906]. [Note: The full text of this source is a nearly identical description of the same exact wedding excerpted below as Levinsky 1963]. Ben-Yisrael 1960, pp. 28-29 . Beregovski 1937 [= … dance are done to doyna melodies.” [Lag B’Omer, Meron, Israel, 1960s-70s]. Fridhaber 1975, pp. 29-30 . “One of …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… themselves the money. This was a custom in all of Galicia. Nearly the same [practice] was confided to me by the rabbi … for the dance of the bridegroom and the bride.” [Jerusalem, Israel, 1966-1986]. Mazor and Taube 1994, pp. 164, 175, 195, …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… The statistical disparity effectively meant that nearly one in every three Jewish university-level students in … for Jewish musical achievement that circulated in the early twentieth century actually took on a life of their … University in January 2009. I thank Alexander Frenkel, Israel Bartal, Edwin Seroussi, and Jascha Nemtsov for their …
Bulgar (LKT)
… popular in parts of Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also known as bulgarish, it is a … in Bessarabia. Its best known step is similar to the Israeli dance hora.” Alpert 1996b, p. 58 . ( …
Doyne (LKT)
… with Jews from Romania and the southern Ukraine, by the early twentieth century it had achieved currency among … (sometimes ten or fifteen minutes).” [Lag B’Omer, Meron, Israel, 1960-70s.] Fridhaber 1975, pp. 27-28 . “ Doyna is … 1997, pp. 21-22 . ( Recording references included). “In his early years performing [this doyne ] for Brooklyn …
Volekh (LKT)
… is danced (resurrection of the dead).” [Lag B’Omer, Meron, Israel, 1960s-70s]. Hadju 1971, p. 83 . (Musical notation … found its way into almost every religious service of the yearly cycle. Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760) explains that the reason …
La Gallarda matadora
… songs. Two musicians who fuse these two genres are the Israeli singer Yasmin Levy and the guitarist Baldi Olier. … dancer, has, for example, cooperated with Mor Karbasi, an Israeli singer who specializes mostly on Sephardic songs. … in some interesting commercial renditions, e.g. a very early one by Haim Effendi , I will focus here on the latter. …
Sher
… around 1830 (in Czechoslovakia) and the quadrille in the early nineteenth century (Parisian), and the lancers was … only the wedding dance, the sher, won acceptance in Erez Israel.” EncyJud 1971, p. 1270 . “The bands themselves … prevalent among Jews of Eastern Europe and now found in Israel and the Diaspora. The sher was a favorite of the …