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Worlds That Passed
… S. Sachs … Jewish life and customs … Lithuania … Lithuanian jews … Eastern Ashkenazi … Abraham Simchah Sachs … Worlds …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… deed] of dancing with or for the bride. Among Jews from the Bukovina region where Hasidism was … From what many klezmorim tell us, the skočna among Jews was not a separate dance-type. Usually they called a … and so on. Here it is interesting to establish whether non-Jews adopted Jewish dances. We know of cases in which …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukah Songs
… have attained an almost universal status, even among non-Jews. At the same time, the need of each generation to …
Hora (LKT)
… hora, the primary form of the genre among East European Jews, is common in northeastern Romania and among Bukovina Ukrainians. Among Yiddish-speaking Jews, the triple-meter hora is also called londre or landre …
Avraham Reyzen
… Cohen, ' Reyzen, Avrom ' in The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe website. See also: A list of his …
Beroyges-tants
… . [In another description, from a wedding of Lithuanian Jews in America, c. 1959:] The guests stand in a large … Samuel Rappaport, on the religious life of Eastern European Jews, he records that the ‘beroyges’ dance, was arranged …
Kosher-tants (LKT)
… be added the ethnographer of Lithuanian and White Russian Jews, Moshe Berlin, who brings in his study only the …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… deed] of dancing with or for the bride. Among Jews from the Bukovina region where Hasidism was … There also it was the same custom among the Hungarian Jews.” Ben-Ezra 1965, p. 27 . “When a girl becomes a wife, … be added the ethnographer of Lithuanian and White Russian Jews, Moshe Berlin, who brings in his study only the …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… roughly 1200 students, were Jewish. This was at a time when Jews formed roughly four percent of the total Russian … rest of the Russian educational world strenuously denied Jews entry, Russia’s greatest musical academy welcomed them … in large part to the shared obsession of Russians and Jews with the dramatic spectacle of Jewish musicians at the …
Betlers-tants (LKT)
… many due to the impoverished economic situation of most Jews at this time) were invited to feast; in return for, or …