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Mordkhe Shekhter
Itsye Mordkhe Shekhter was born on December 1927, in Czernowitz, Ukraine. He descended…
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…
Leo Wiener
Leo Wiener was born in Bialystok, Russian Empire in 1862. He was an American historian…
Sher
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Arbie Orenstein
Arbie Orenstein was born and raised in New York City, he attended the High School of…
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…
Assaf Shelleg
Musicologist and pianist Assaf Shelleg is senior lecturer of musicology at The Hebrew…
Haggai Ben-Shammai
Haggai Ben-Shammai was born in Tel-Aviv in 1939, grew up in Jerusalem and has lived to…
Max Lempel
Max Lempel was born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900 into an assimilated…