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Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… songs that were written by poets of the Haskalah in Eastern Europe, and later on in Erets Yisrael and in the USA. The …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… liturgical poems such as Shofet kol ha’aretz to Eastern Europe. When Shofet kol ha’aretz appeared in printed prayers … still reproduced among the Jewish intelligentsia in Eastern Europe in the early nineteenth century. The relevant passage … reminiscences of Biblical chant. The “alternative” Eastern European melody of Shofet kol ha’arez bears the unmistakable …
Dos Fartribene Taybele (The Exiled Dove)
… Deronda (1876). The drama tells the story of a disaffected European aristocrat who rediscovers his Jewish heritage and …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… played an important role in the dissemination in Western Europe and North Africa of the “new” style of religious …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… reminiscences of Biblical chant. The “alternative” Eastern European melody of Shofet kol ha’arez bears the unmistakable …
Tin Pan Alley
… of song purveyed by the industry both in America and then Europe up until the rise of the singer-songwriter in the …
Badhan
… and at Hanukkah and Purim celebrations. In Eastern European Jewish communities, the badhan worked as a …
Klezmer (pl. Klezmorim)
… Eastern-European Jewish folk musician, generally instrumentalist. …
Tenu'a (yd. pronunciation: tnue, tnie)
… A term used by Hassidim and East European hazzanim; it literally means 'Movement.' An …
Mitsve Tants
… bride’s hand. The ritual originated with Jews from central Europe and it is first mentioned in the 16th century, though … use since the 14th century and probably migrated to eastern Europe in the 18th century at the latest. In Jewish musar …