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Hora
… In the second half of the twentieth century, Hassidic and Lithuanian Yeshiva students in Israel, who until then danced …

Freylekhs (LKT)
… played the freilachs , and the ‘Kosher Dance!’” [Zhagare, Lithuania, late nineteenth-century]. Sachs 1928, pp. 144-45 . “Freilachs: a merry tune.” [Zhagare, Lithuania, late nineteenth-century]. Sachs 1928, p. 284 . … themselves [against tears] with a freylekhs ...” [Vilna, Lithuania, 1870s-80s]. Zizmor 1922a, p. 876 . “ A …

Sher
… we do know that the šer was widespread in Belorussia, Lithuania, and Poland. Even if we do not find this dance in … he pointed out, this dance was wide-spread in Belorussia, Lithuania, Poland and the Ukraine. Beregovski hypothesized … where it was especially popular, but also in White Russia, Lithuania, and Poland. Since until the end of the nineteenth …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… While all of the Jewish communities, from Yemen to Lithuania, developed unique melodies for the blessing, the … these verses out loud. In the late nineteenth century, in Lithuanian and Latvian synagogues, they were even sung as …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian Jewish South Africa, and Midwestern American … in Jewish liturgical music. Dymont was born in Kovno, Lithuania (then part of Russia) in 1881. He left for Germany …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… Jewish piety. At the age of 12 years, I was sent to Lithuanian jeshivas, where I remained five years. During …

Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… century. To them can be added the ethnographer of Lithuanian and White Russian Jews, Moshe Berlin, who brings …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… been reflected in the emergence of three Yiddish dialects (Lithuanian Yiddish in the North, Polish and Ukrainian … operatic gestures, numerous nigunim by the Ukrainian and Lithuanian-Belarusian Hasidim adhered more closely to the … of Sabbath”)—appeared as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in …