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Racheli Galay
Racheli Galay is a cellist, educator, and researcher specializing in Jewish music and…
Andalusian Nuba
In this article we will review the development of the Nuba, which is considered the…
Mordkhe Shekhter
Itsye Mordkhe Shekhter was born on December 1927, in Czernowitz, Ukraine. He descended…
Bessie Schonberg
Bessie Schönberg was born in Hanover, Germany in December 1906, the youngest of three…
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…
Volekh (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Mailamm, 1932–1941: Die Geschichte einer Vereinigung zur Förderung jüdischer Musik in den USA
An account of one of the earliest and most significant organizations involved in the…
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…
Moritz Rosenhaupt
By Edwin Seroussi
German cantor and composer Moritz/Moses Rosenhaput was born (see…
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…