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Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
The Yiddish language, which probably began to develop around the tenth century A.D. in…
Freylekhs
Yiddish term, popularly used to refer to a joyful Niggun, and is still used as…
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
Since the establishment of this community, the Karaites have maintained the basic…
Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
Léibele Schwartz
Schwartz was born in Brod, Poland, on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began…
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof HaGalil) neighborhood…
Mordekhai Zeira
Life
Mordekhai Zeira was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a…