… while accompanying guests home at night after the wedding feast or the following day after a solemn meal. The most …

… He was apprenticed at the age of nine to an itinerant Eastern European cantor, and maintained this lifestyle throughout nearly all of his career. He is most closely associated with … musicologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Nearly a century ago, Aron Friedmann, the chief cantor of …

… or Cantor in the communities of Western Asheknaz (the lands near the Rhine and Upper Danube).  It began to appear as …

… a chilling reference to the old Jewish communities of Eastern Europe that vanished in the Holocaust. It can also …

… led Jacobson to his conclusion that Rossi knew at least one “real” Jewish (oral) melody. To make his case, …

Dudu Barak is a writer of Israeli folk songs. He was born in Jerusalem in 1948 and grew…

… as “during the High Holy Days, leading a choir in a Lower East Side Temple. Oh, and he took along his youngest son who … became Berlin’s true genius and of what was Jewish – or at least ‘Jew-ish’ – about Berlin’s life and achievements. … Irving Berlin brilliantly do? He de-Christs them both!... Easter turns into a fashion show and Christmas into a …

… the world order ( kosmos ), as it is possible to notice at least since the time of the pre-Socratics. From many of the …

… was sent to study in the Me’ir Shefeyah educational village near Zikhron Ya’akov, directed at the time by Moshe Calwary. … Tzefira In relation to Tzefira's role as mediator between eastern melodies and the forming 'Israeli' music, the recent … . [4] The expression 'art music' is problematic to say the least. It comes to signify what is sometimes called …