… is of Jewish origin, did it originated in Ashkenaz or in an Eastern Jewish tradition. Much of the relevant literature … structure of questions and answers and its numbers are nearly identical to those in “E h ad mi yodea,” with some of … (Tabory, 1988: 66) Variations from Sephardic and Eastern Jewish communities “E h ad mi yodea” began to appear …

… become the central style among a significant portion of the Eastern communities in Israel and in the Diaspora, is a … during the High Holidays, and the newer layer of Middle-Eastern Arabic musical style, which was crystallized during … and historical processes which occurred over the Middle-East in general and in Jerusalem in particular. The slow …

… David Hayyim Eliyahu Levy) was a Karaite Jew born in Cairo near the Karaite quarter. He was initially recognized as a …

… The announcement of his first appearance in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City at Tomashevsky’s … adulthood. He was the star soloist in the choirs of such East European cantorial celebrities as Nisi Belzer and …

… students). The statistical disparity effectively meant that nearly one in every three Jewish university-level students … composer Aleksandr Spendiarov: “You by birth are an Eastern person, for you the East, as they say, is in your … students). The statistical disparity effectively meant that nearly one in every three Jewish university-level students …

… of oral creation of the Ashkenazi Jews of both Western and Eastern Europe, whereas in the latter region it was … of Yiddish combine German and Hebrew components, and in Eastern Europe also elements of Slavic languages, as well as … example, one of the earliest collections that documents the eastern Ashkenazi folk tradition is Sammlung Jüdischer …

… on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a tradition that developed in … shares common characteristics, which come from the ancient Near East. As Tarsi (2001, 3) observes, however, Idelsohn … Accents as Biblical Commentary.”  Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University  4, no. 1: 2–11. …