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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music traditions. He was also a public figure, … of a family of cantors and singers associated with Hassidic courts in Poland, most especially with the court of … and religious nationalism, popularizing tendencies and thoughtful scholarship, art and faith all converge in the …
Yizhak Edel
… Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a Hassidic scholar, took responsibility for his education, and … three years, an experience that influenced his educational thought. Beside Korcak, he taught in Yehudiya, a Zionist …
Mordekhai Zeira
… accompanying his father to the synagogue. He also heard Hassidic music in his house that was 'full of Jews who could sing a Hassidic Niggun and sing Russian Zionist songs,' [1] as … . Their names appeared together so many times, that many thought that Zeira's first name was Orland. Their …
Mitsve Tants
… It is performed today as the final ceremony of a Hassidic wedding, after the feast. Male members of the two … are invited to dance in turn with the bride. When a Hassidic rebbe is present, he is invited first. Each dancer … Dancing with the bride, especially the Tsadik’s dance, was thought to have a metaphysical meaning and power in the …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… its inroads into Jewish homes, more metric tunes (such as Hassidic melodies) took over texts of the Haggadah that were … as we have seen in the case of Kornitzer, as well as in Hassidic circles. … pentatonic learning tune. Concluding thoughts Four different musical …
A Hassidic Ritual Dance: The Mitsve Tants in Jerusalemite Weddings
… the bride, as the final public event of the wedding in most Hassidic communities. In our description we present some of the different forms of this ceremony in various Hassidic communities in Jerusalem. We also try to shed some … and function of the mitsve tants according to Hassidic thought. To this end we present a description of the …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… present century on Edison phonographic cylinders. It was thought that it was impossible to renew them, and look, with … editions of two volumes, no. 2 (Yiddish songs) and no. 4 (Hassidic niggunim). None other than the late Prof. Eda … was assigned to Yaacov Mazor, the most prominent scholar of Hassidic music at the JMRC. His work was completed, but in …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… most tunes from Beregovski’s entire selected collection of Hassidic nigunim that remained unpublished after he … no. 3 shows seven musical traits that are common to the Hassidic repertoire from Western Ukraine: Slow development … order of the rhythmic patterns is asymmetric and yet well thought out. Three main patterns (a, b, c) reoccur in …
A Nigun on a soff (chassidisch) – A Tune without Ending
… In coupling these two Hassidic tunes, nos. 7 and 8 – Lied ohne Worte and A Nigun … to hint at two sides of the same musical coin in Hasidic thought. Cyclical return and the eternal nature of time and …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… They only stayed in SA one year. This was the time everyone thought he would become a Christian because the only piano … names of the older 19 th century generation of cantors (of Hassidic background) from Galicia. In spite of his harsh …