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Woody Guthrie's Hanukah Songs
… Within his vast oeuvre there are a handful of songs with Jewish themes, and a few of them are specifically related to Hanukah. Guthrie himself was not Jewish; however his second wife, Marjorie Mazia Greenblatt, … with Judaism. They would share songs and Woody would study Jewish texts and history. In the late 1940s Guthrie wrote a …
A Few Notes and Observations on the Theory and Performance of Klezmer Music
… Peter Sokolow … Klezmer music … klezmer music performance … Jewish musical tradition … Pete Sokolow … Henry Saposnik … A …
Hora (LKT)
… dance, cf. Bulg. krivo horo ] and other terms. American-Jewish musicians often refer to it as ‘slow hora.’ The … Europe, horas were frequently used as processional tunes at Jewish weddings and other celebrations.” Alpert 1993, p. 2 . … Recording references included). “Hora: A popular Romanian-Jewish dance in a limping, duple meter, often notated in 3/8 …
Zhok (LKT)
… Europe, especially in Hungary, Moravia, and Rumania, Jewish youths would assemble on Saturday afternoons for … zhok as if it were a new innovation that was not really Jewish. He left Kiev in the Ukraine in the 1920’s perhaps. …
Tants nign (LKT)
… in the modern era. The dance-song was preserved by the Jewish masses a long time after the social dances had …
Avraham Reyzen
Avraham Reyzen was a Yiddish writer, poet and editor, and the elder brother of the …
Hopke (LKT)
… the hopak . (The name hopak was folklorized into hopke .) Jewish kozachok melodies were borrowed, but in the klezmer … in the klezmer repertoire. They did not acquire a Jewish sound. The kozachoks and hopaks that were adopted are … music. Very often under Ukrainian titles we find purely Jewish pieces.” Goldin 1989, p. 15 . “ Hopke . dance.” …
Hopak (LKT)
… the hopak . (The name hopak was folklorized into hopke .) Jewish kozachok melodies were borrowed, but in the klezmer …
Beroyges-tants
… p. 1266 . “The ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ dances [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of the style of … last dances, outside of sources found in [Eastern European Jewish] folk song, we have nothing about this style, no …
Mekhutenim-tants
… pp. 15-16 . “The ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ dances [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of the style of … last dances, outside of sources found in [Eastern European Jewish] folk song, we have nothing about this style, no …