… music in Yiddish culture; history of klezmer music in Eastern Europe and the United States.   … Researcher … James Loeffler …

… researched and written extensively on romantic era, Western European music; eastern influences on Western music throughout time; the …

… brides weep and guests dance at weddings throughout Jewish eastern Europe before the culture was destroyed in the Holocaust, … distinctly 'American' music, played throughout central and eastern Europe, as well as in many other parts of the world. …

… … 120 … Berlin … Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel … … 1923 … Eastern Europe … Folk music … Folk songs … Yiddish … Ashkenaz … Europe … Collection … East … Yiddish songs … Ashkenazi … …

… their concentration in very few urban centers in Western Europe and the Americas contributed to the remarkable, …

… [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of the style … looking at these last dances, outside of sources found in [Eastern European Jewish] folk song, we have nothing about …

… He was apprenticed at the age of nine to an itinerant Eastern European cantor, and maintained this lifestyle throughout … to sing and lead services in Jewish communities throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the exceptional musical and …

… faiths by the Catholic Church were common throughout Europe. Among the refugees were wealthy Spanish and … founders and managers of international trade organizations. Eastern and central European Jews began arriving in Holland … of this synagogue is the result of a mixture of Western and Eastern elements. A similar fusion is found in the …

… the spiritual center of the Karaites was balanced between Europe and the Near East. During the next few hundred years, … 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 …

… he led a Jewish folklore expedition through small towns of Eastern Europe, which was cut short by the outbreak of World War I. …