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Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… the krar (harp) , masinqo (one stringed fiddle), washint (flute) and kebero (barrel drums) were prominently displayed …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… the rest of the 1899 materials are lost. While “the absolute loss of Melngailis’s Jewish collection was discovered …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Zonophone Company) by the Sephardic tamburitza (long neck lute) ensemble and choir ‘La Gloria’ in Sarajevo. [56] The …
Karev Yom
… (see Appendix) is extremely telling of the period. The absolute majority of the songs (thirteen out of eighteen) are by … the USA) at about the same time by female singers, the absolute majority of whom were of Yemenite-Jewish origins (Hanna …

Sher
… is danced by no more than four persons....[sic] A Scharer lute melody has been preserved in a lute book from 1562.’ Thus the Scharer or Schartanz is of …

Forshpil (LKT)
… dobranotsh melodies (Slav. = good night) were used to salute the arriving guests to the so-called forshpil or …

Taksim (LKT)
… century; in addition to the fiddler, the clarinet or flute used to play solos at table.” Beregovski 1937 [= …

Doyne (LKT)
… twisting, plaintive melody. Here the instruments are flute and tsimbl , the latter being the Jewish version of the …

Khosid/Khosidl (LKT)
… enough to invite embellishment by clarinet, violin, or flute to a greater degree than allowed by the brighter …

«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… create anything original. But I want to say that you’re absolutely not like that. Still, even if we take [so-and-so] . . …