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Avraham Reyzen
Avraham Reyzen was a Yiddish writer, poet and editor, and the elder brother of the …
Tants nign (LKT)
… in the modern era. The dance-song was preserved by the Jewish masses a long time after the social dances had …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… Within his vast oeuvre there are a handful of songs with Jewish themes, and a few of them are specifically related to Hanukkah. 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 …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… singular khusid ] were cornerstones of Leon’s old-time, Jewish dance repertoire. He often referred to them as a … [ mitsve dance], alluding to their frequent use at Jewish weddings to accompany the mitsve [ritual … circle or line dance, the most common in East European Jewish wedding dance repertoire, in 4/4 rhythm... Khusidl, …
Fun der khupe (LKT)
… II]. Katshke 1966, p. 666 . “After the khupe according to Jewish custom, they led the joyful couple together on a full …
Tsu der khupe (LKT)
… wedding scene. It is peformed by the State Ensemble of Jewish Folk Music of the Ukrainian S.S.R. recorded in the …
Worlds That Passed
… … 1 … 34037 … Philadelphia … Jewish Publication Society of America … … 1928 … Avraham Simḥah Zaḳs … A. S. Sachs … Jewish life and customs … Lithuania … Lithuanian jews … …