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Vals (LKT)
… 1982, p. 533] . “The waltz was also popular among Jews and was danced exclusively at weddings.” Beregovski … padekater, quadrille, polka, waltz, etc... played for both Jews and non-Jews.” Feldman 1994, p. 10 . “A ‘kozak’ [and a freylekhs …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… it is originally a Jewish or a non-Jewish song adapted by Jews; 2) If it is of Jewish origin, did it originated in … of “E h ad mi yodea” that were later adopted by Ashkenazi Jews. Sharvit (1972) claimed that since the Eastern versions … was mistakes in the oral transmission between European Jews, possibly from Amsterdam, and by the transcribers from …

Toyten-tants (LKT)
… Christians performed them during church processions; the Jews at weddings and family festivals, sometimes even as …

Terkish (LKT)
… several items of south Balkan origin were played by the Jews as ‘bulgar,’ they were not called “terkishe,’ and the … as the Greek sirto and suggests connections between the Jews of Eastern Europe and the Greek inhabitants of the …

Music
… p://www.brill.com/publications/online-resources/encyclopedia-jews-isl... ) … 1 … Encyclopedia of the Jews in the Islamic World … Encyclopedia of the Jews in the Islamic World … 33957 … 498-519 … Leiden … Brill …

Skotshne/Skochne
… From what many klezmorim tell us, the skocna among Jews was not a separate dance-type. Usually they called a … to many klezmorim, the skocna was not a special dance among Jews. Usually it was a frejlaxs somewhat more technically …

Sirba
… Carpathian region among co-territorial peoples including Jews, Ukrainians, Transylvanian Hungarians, and even Polish …

Shrayer
… and so on. Here it is interesting to establish whether non-Jews adopted Jewish dances. We know of cases in which …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… sung in informal settings, the word 'La-yehudim' (for the Jews) is changed to 'La-yeladim' (for the children). Yet, in …

Sher
… and Kherson regions). Was the šer known only to Ukrainian Jews? Certainly not. Although we have no data from the … it does mean that it was not known there previously. The Jews could not have adopted the dance from the Ukrainians … Ukrainians do dance the šer , they adopted it from the Jews. In Bohme 1886:56 we find a dance named ‘Der Scherer …