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Kozak (LKT)

… shers, kozakl, polke... ” Stutschewsky 1959, p. 164 . “Eastern European Jews were accustomed to invite each guest to a …

… dance was widespread in the region of Vilna... [and all of] Eastern Europe...” Fridhaber 1972, pp. 32-33 . “Patch Tanz. Dance (lit. ‘clap dance’) of Eastern European origin, In a slow duple meter, it is part …

Quadrille (LKT)

… repertoire’ couple dances of Western and Central European origin such as lances, pa de span, padekater, … the waltz words were sung which went with the rhythms... Eastern European Jews were accustomed to invite each guest to an …

Polka

… repertoire’ couple dances of Western and Central European origin’ such as lances, pa de span, padekater, … mazurkas (both in 3/4 meter), polkas (2/4), tangos (4/4) European military marches (2/4 and 6/8), and popular pieces … the waltz words were sung which went with the rhythms... Eastern European Jews were accustomed to invite each guest …

Sher

… collections. Judging by commercial recordings from Europe and the United States, some khosidls had the same … that are widely found in the accounts of Jewish Ashkenaz in Eastern Europe, and they are danced among us up until this … the German Jews that migrated to Russia and to the rest of Eastern Europe, following their expulsion from various lands …

Hag Purim – The story behind its melody

… we dedicate the Song of the Month to a very popular Eastern European Ashkenazi melody that, in the early 1920s, was set … Israeli children. As a most widely recognized melody in the Eastern European Jewish world, the melody of “ H ag Purim” …

Skotshne/Skochne

… is sometimes performed in 3/4 and at times in 2/4. Jewish Eastern Europe was not fixated on one particular style of dance. At …

Terkish (LKT)

… Greek sirto and suggests connections between the Jews of Eastern Europe and the Greek inhabitants of the Turkish Empire of …

Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies

… is of Jewish origin, did it originated in Ashkenaz or in an Eastern Jewish tradition. Much of the relevant literature … (Tabory, 1988: 66) Variations from Sephardic and Eastern Jewish communities “E h ad mi yodea” began to appear … versions in Yiddish and in Russian appeared in the Eastern European communities. The non-Ashkenazi versions, on the …

Vals (LKT)

… repertoire’ couple dances of Western and Central European origin such as lances, pa de span, padekater, … cultures by the Hasidic dynasties in Poland and Central Europe such as Gur, Karlin, Modzhitz and Zanz, as part of … the waltz words were sung which went with the rhythms... Eastern European Jews were accustomed to invite each guest …