… Ottoman Palestine from Jewish singers belonging to Middle Eastern communities living in Jerusalem. Isaac Lurie … with the bulk of the impressive collection that consists of Eastern European Jewish materials. Yet, these recordings are among the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the …

… present HTML version the table has been formatted as a linear text for easy online search and mobile viewing. … in the Mažeikiai district municipality located 17 km south-east of Mažeikiai], Semogalen [i.e in the district of … training. Yiska’s memoire: [3a] He was born in Latvia, near Libau, in a town called Felixburg which was renamed …

The word Seliha (plural- Selihot) means forgiveness in Hebrew. In the singular form…

… Poland, c. 1906]. [Note: The full text of this source is a nearly identical description of the same exact wedding … [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of … looking at these last dances, outside of sources found in [Eastern European Jewish] folk song, we have nothing about …

… of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European landscape: Hasidic tish-nigunim. Nigunim … the scarcity of musicological research on the core central-eastern European nigunim repertoire seems to be the lack of … right, one that is only partially related to the central-eastern European tradition. First, they choose to include …

… the second blessing after Shema is sung to the tune of the Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish song “La rosa enflorece” … by the popular singer Yehoram Gaon, whose family is of Eastern Sephardi origin. It is also widely sung, following a … this remarkable consistency. Only the use of a tune from an Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish song discloses the …

… that, second, it was well known in the 1870s and 1880s (at least in the Vilna area). The name might well have remained … play a kazattske! ’...Sung to a semele-tants .” [Podbroz, near Vilna, Lithuania, c. 1920s-30s]. Cahan 1938, pp. 40 …

… Speaking live from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv, Bikel was nearly offended when Gazit asked him if the interview should … Art, History and Commentary (Jerusalem, 2009): Draw near the day which is neither day nor night; Exalted One, …

… founders and managers of international trade organizations. Eastern and central European Jews began arriving in Holland … of this synagogue is the result of a mixture of Western and Eastern elements. A similar fusion is found in the …

… we dedicate the Song of the Month to a very popular Eastern European Ashkenazi melody that, in the early 1920s, … Israeli children. As a most widely recognized melody in the Eastern European Jewish world, the melody of “ H ag Purim” … of Sabbath table songs ( zemirot shabbat ) across the Eastern European Jewish diaspora. It was sung by families in …