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Tants (Alter yidisher) (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
A Hassidic Ritual Dance: The Mitsve Tants in Jerusalemite Weddings
… In our description we present some of the different forms of this ceremony in various Hassidic communities in …
Tin Pan Alley
Nickname for the popular songwriting and sheet-music publishing industry centred in New…
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… chant. Furthermore, this topical motif of the High Holidays forms a musical link between the festival season and Shofet … evidence merely of its age. The Ashkenazic and Sephardic forms differ very considerably in detail, betraying … 1892) are by no means in agreement in detail. Four forms [of the melody], two Polish and two German, are …
Diwan
In Arab culture, a Diwan is an anthology of poems by one or several poets. In the…
Joe Elias
Joe Elias was born into a Sephardic family in Brooklyn. The youngest of seven children,…
3. The Little Sister (Aḥot Qetanah)
La nación judía recita oraciones (The Jewish nation recites prayers)
This piyut…
Shtoktants (LKT)
… of the Stick’). Immediately, a circle of young scholars forms around the old man. The circle remains just wide …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… all eight people are ‘wrapped up’ in this way, everyone forms a straight line (if space permits) and dances in … -- and that it owes its vernacular name to this place -- forms a link between the pilgrimage and this repertoire. One … references included). “Violinist Leon Schwartz performs a kale bazetsn melody, and plays and sings the …