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Hora (LKT)
… you get the full reference. “ Hora refers to a Romanian dance and musical genre of great diversity, comprising brisk … dance, cf. Bulg. krivo horo ] and other terms. American-Jewish musicians often refer to it as ‘slow hora.’ The … This popular Saturday afternoon dance movement produced new folk songs and dances.” EncyJud 1971, p. 1267 . “The …
Zhok (LKT)
… Europe, especially in Hungary, Moravia, and Rumania, Jewish youths would assemble on Saturday afternoons for … courtyard, which became popularly known by the name of dance they loved, the Joc , a type of hora common among … This popular Saturday afternoon dance movement produced new folk songs and dances.” EncyJud 1971, p. 1267 . “The …
Tants nign (LKT)
… Yiddish terms tants nign or a tenzl . Other terms for dance tunes are hopke , dreidl , or redele (all used by … references included). “The dance-song is a collective folk-expression which derived from the need to sing for the … in the modern era. The dance-song was preserved by the Jewish masses a long time after the social dances had …
Hopke (LKT)
… pre-World War I]. Cahan 1957, p. 491 (#255) . “Other dances performed at weddings in East European communities … the klezmers aso played the hopak . (The name hopak was folklorized into hopke .) Jewish kozachok melodies were borrowed, but in the klezmer …
Hopak (LKT)
… get the full reference. “The principal forms [of Russian folk dance] are the korovod and the trepak, the former danced by … the hopak . (The name hopak was folklorized into hopke .) Jewish kozachok melodies were borrowed, but in the klezmer …
Beroyges-tants
… citation, you get the full reference. “The [ beroyges ] dance ended, the song was stopped. The groom approached and … that among our large masses, for a long time now the folkdance has been accompanied by singing; and not only to … p. 1266 . “The ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ dances [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern …
Mekhutenim-tants
… 1266 . “The scholar Gabriel Grod published... ‘ mekhutonim dances’ [done] during the arrangement of the ‘tenoim’ ... … pp. 15-16 . “The ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ dances [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern … outside of sources found in [Eastern European Jewish] folk song, we have nothing about this style, no definitive …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… the full reference. “These two khusidlekh [Hasidic-style dance tunes, singular khusid ] were cornerstones of Leon’s old-time, Jewish dance repertoire. He often referred to them as a … . And this was among a series of dances -- Hassidic, folk-like, led by experts, among them Reb Baruch-Moshe …
Semele (LKT)
… of each citation, you get the full reference. “Sometimes dances are mentioned in the literature for which we have not … were danced in the late nineteenth century. For example, a folk song (Ginzburg-Marek 1901: no. 254) mentions a dance … dance. Cahan introduces some German folk songs as well as Jewish ones in which we find a similar dance. However, the …
Shemele (LKT)
… also proposes... Later during a mention of the ‘beroyges’ dance and reconciliation, there is a mention of the German … p. 24 . “The ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ dances [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern … outside of sources found in [Eastern European Jewish] folk song, we have nothing about this style, no definitive …