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Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… themselves the money. This was a custom in all of Galicia. Nearly the same [practice] was confided to me by the rabbi … . “Mitzvah Dance ( Mitsve tentsl ). After the guests had feasted to their hearts’ content in the wedding halls, and … and dancing was usually to announce the end of the wedding feast... This dance was brought in many different Jewish …
Beroyges-tants
… 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 …
Hopke (LKT)
… p. 491 (#255) . “Other dances performed at weddings in East European communities were:... Redl, Frailachs, … borrowed, but in the klezmer interpretation they were given near-virtuoso features. Moreover they became multipart …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… A lively circle or line dance, the most common in East European Jewish wedding dance repertoire, in 4/4 … of the dance choreography of a freylekhs , as danced near Kiev ca. 1900-1915, includes following data: “Eight … with a different ending form in the style of the period....Nearly all the melodies reach their peak on the second …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… of the Tanna and his son, Rabbi El'azar are located, at least since the second half of the sixteenth century. Based … Safed, the main city of the Upper Galilee located rather near to Mount Meron. However, the bibliographer and scholar … shared by the verses and the refrain, attests to the Middle Eastern influence on the piece. The melodic range is …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… center of the Karaites was balanced between Europe and the Near East. During the next few hundred years, additional Karaite … Egypt and Byzantium as well as in Crimeria, Lithuania, and Eastern Poland. During that period, the development of the …
Brakha Tzefira
… 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 …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… In the spring of 1897, on the eve of the Russian Orthodox Easter, two Russian musicians met in an encounter that was … of the new Hebrew national style. He was born in a village near Vitebsk, in White Russia, and immigrated to the United …
Musical instruments of the Mountain Jews
… or 'ghumuz' in Juhuri and Qumiq), adopted by musicians from eastern Caucasus (also Azerbaijan and western Caucasus) in … instrument of the same name which is found throughout the Near East . Komoncha is a spike fiddle of four strings. …
Bin Tavinu Liqnot Bina Ha'azinu
… reflect the original musical intentions of Najara, or at least the spirit of his intentions. This was made possible by … research of the oral tradition of the Sephardic Jews of the Eastern Mediterranean. Afterwards, the performing artists … upon the melody of the Judeo-Spanish song 'Con el vino saneare marido con el agua pasearemala' (With wine I am …