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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. … Romanian music. The ‘zhok’ entered to a great extent the literature of the klezmorim , and some creations in the …
Avraham Reyzen
… Zemereshet . … Yiddish writer, Poet & Editor … 0 … Literature … Poet … Editor … translator … Avraham Reyzen …
Kosher-tants (LKT)
… the the name of this dance (‘kosher dance’) is originally Jewish, in all instances its music was typically foreign and … by the name ‘Separation from Birth’. Indeed the musical literature of the klezmorim was original and characteristic, … the bride is a kosher one’ is far from in good taste for Jewish modesty... In newer times the maskilim began to wage …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a … days a half century earlier: [1] “Why are there so many Jewish students at the St. Petersburg Conservatory? Because … mi-hadash,” Tsion 77:2 (2012): 223-54. [9] For a survey of literature on Gnesin, see E. V. Borisova, “Kratkii obzor …
Semele (LKT)
… full reference. “Sometimes dances are mentioned in the literature for which we have not been able to gather data, … dance. Cahan introduces some German folk songs as well as Jewish ones in which we find a similar dance. However, the …
Kozatske (LKT)
… and cannot pay for it. The first part of the melody is of Jewish origin, the latter part is Russian and in keeping … 28 . “ ‘Kozatz’keh : ’ This dance was popular both among Jewish Ukraine and Jewish Poland. There is nothing to … klezmorim gave it their own musical imprint. (In Yiddish literature the ‘kozatz’keh’ is mentioned much more …
Leo Wiener
… and became the first American professor of Slavic literature. One of his many published books include, Africa … Wikipedia. More sources: Leo Wiener, History of Yiddish literature in the nineteenth century . London: John C. …
Polonaise
… the the name of this dance (‘kosher dance’) is originally Jewish, in all instances its music was typically foreign and … by the name ‘Separation from Birth’. Indeed the musical literature of the klezmorim was original and characteristic, … in the modern era. The dance-song was preserved by the Jewish masses a long time after the social dances had …
Sher
… “Sher: One of the most common dance forms in the Jewish repertoire, similar to a square dance or a Russian … their weddings and celebrations, to which they invited Jewish musicians. The Ukrainian youth there danced the šer … on the fact that the šer was never mentioned in Jewish literature, either in belles lettres or in memoirs. We …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish traditions. “E h ad mi yodea” is a cumulative song. … – God; two – the two tablets of the covenant; three – the Jewish patriarchs; four – the Jewish matriarchs; five – the … or in an Eastern Jewish tradition. Much of the relevant literature surrounding these two questions has been …