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Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture
… Traditional Ashkenazic dance, as it had been practiced in Eastern Europe, featured a confluence of two diverse movement traditions – a western European, Germanic tradition based on set figures, and a …
In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism
… attention on the role of literary translation and European models in the aesthetic development of Modern … music, aesthetics, and Jewish nationalism in fin-de-siecle Eastern Europe, I will explore how Idelsohn understood the …
Contemporary Jewish Music: A New Series of the JMRC (2009)
… second nature. An expert on the music of the Roma while in Europe, Hajdu focused on the musical traditions of the Eastern European Hassidim residing in Israel. Most notable was his …
Alexander L. Ringer
… researched and written extensively on romantic era, Western European music; eastern influences on Western music throughout time; the …
Morris Rosenfeld
… shed light on the living circumstances of emigrants from Eastern Europe in New York's tailoring workshops. His poems were …
Avraham Soltes
… in New York City, to parents who recently arrived from Eastern Europe. His father, Mordechai Soltes had earned a Ph.D. in …
Albert Weisser
… The Modern Renaissance of Jewish Music: Events and Figures, Eastern Europe and America (1954). He also studied privately with …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… literature. He moved to Berlin, the rapidly growing hub for Eastern European Jews seeking modern education, studied at a … Volume three was to be dedicated to Eastern and Western Galicia, Hungary, Bukovina and Old …
Abraham Goldfaden
… moved to New York, but returned after only a short while to Europe where he produced his plays in London, Paris, and … of sources including synagogue melodies, Jewish folksongs, Eastern European folk and popular music, and Italian and French …
Michael Lukin
… in Polin , The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore , Musica Judaica , Yuval , Musik … lenses. He has also investigated other aspects of Eastern Ashkenazi traditional culture, such as Yiddish …