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Shir HaKavod

… when this custom began, but it can be assumed that Jews of German decent in Israel and other communities that …

… in Provence, in a transitional form, transmitted perhaps by Jews expelled from France throughout the fourteenth century, among Ashkenazi Jews in Worms (if the 1406 manuscript source mentioned by … introduced to the traditions of the Sephardic and Oriental Jews and was translated into the vernacular (Ladino, Arabic, …

Had Gadya in Israeli Culture

In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song

… Republic with full political and national rights for Jews.' Picture taken from the YIVO encyclopedia website . … to the Jewish worker rather than those of the wealthy Jews. The following segment raises the question of who will fight for the suffering Jews. The answers appears in the next segment: salvation …

Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture

… German-speaking Jews often used melodies from synagogue services for … cycle was a widespread musical custom of German-speaking Jews. [2] In many ways this usage emphasized how the … melodies in the different regions where Germans-speaking Jews lived, only one local tradition was chosen here. …

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

… The album includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews used to sing in events of the life cycle in their … Menéndez Pidal. Ben-Naeh, Yaron | בן-נאה, ירון 2008 Jews in the realm of the Sultans: Ottoman Jewish society in … Judezmo. An Introduction to the Language of the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire . Jerusalén: Magnes Press. Díaz …

Chasidic in America

… traditional and modern culture which was strongly felt by Jews in the United States during the first half of the … within its wider social context. The mass emigration of Jews from Eastern Europe to America between 1882 and 1924 … Music 37 (Fall 2012): 173-86. Shandler, Jeffrey. Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America , …