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Musical instruments of the Mountain Jews
… or 'ghumuz' in Juhuri and Qumiq), adopted by musicians from eastern Caucasus (also Azerbaijan and western Caucasus) in … of the same name which is found throughout the Near East . Komoncha is a spike fiddle of four strings. Widespread in Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, eastern Caucasus and Persia, the instrument is decorated …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… In the spring of 1897, on the eve of the Russian Orthodox Easter, two Russian musicians met in an encounter that was …
Hora
… 2 . The Rumanian Hora was meant for playing at the wedding feast, not during a dance, and sometimes during the mystical …
A letter to mother - A Brivele der Mamen
… Niggun … Immigration … World War I - 1st World War - WW1 … Eastern Europe … A letter to mother - A Brivele der Mamen …
Almonds and Raisins
… Many of these films deal with issues that arose with the eastern European Jewish immigrants who arrived in New York …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… Three Pilgrimage Festivities and the High Holy Days. The Eastern European communities took the limitations the … for the Priestly Blessing. Paradoxically, it was, at least in part, because the Ashkenazi Diaspora communities … of the Priestly Blessings of the Ashkenazi synagogue from east to west, one finds that the melodies may range from …
Kedusha
… have a unique melody. However, in the Ashkenazi Nussach of Eastern Europe, for example, there is a tendency to perform …
Elohim Eshala
… late Romantic techniques employed to represent the “Middle East,” underscores the composer's classical European …
Brakha Tzefira
… Tzefira In relation to Tzefira's role as mediator between eastern melodies and the forming 'Israeli' music, the recent … . [4] The expression 'art music' is problematic to say the least. It comes to signify what is sometimes called …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… of the Karaites was balanced between Europe and the Near East. During the next few hundred years, additional Karaite … Egypt and Byzantium as well as in Crimeria, Lithuania, and Eastern Poland. During that period, the development of the … the 19 th century. With the rise of oppressive regimes in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19 th century and first …