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Zhok (LKT)
… it used to accompany dance. Its origin was Moldavian and Romanian music. The ‘zhok’ entered to a great extent the …
Hora (LKT)
… citation, you get the full reference. “ Hora refers to a Romanian dance and musical genre of great diversity, … genre among East European Jews, is common in northeastern Romania and among Bukovina Ukrainians. Among … p. 3 . ( Recording references included). “Hora: A popular Romanian-Jewish dance in a limping, duple meter, often …
Gas-nign (LKT)
… of Gasn Nigun is based on Abe Schwartz’s 1920 violin solo [Romanian style]... The pace is quicker and Schwartz launches …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… . “Recent research with Gypsy musicians from Transylvania (Romania) has shown that these musicians had performed a … of Gasn Nigun ias based on Abe Schwartz’s 1920 violin solo [Romanian]... The pace is quicker and Schwartz launches into … is Gegangen in Mark Areyn’’ [Kapelye]... ‘Freylakh from ‘Romanian Doina’’ [A. Schwartz]... ‘Freylakh in D’ [Klezmer …
Mordkhe Shekhter
… a secular Jewish family. Until 1940 he was a pupil in a Romanian school and high school. He studied Torah and …
Honga (LKT)
… hangu (Yiddish: honga, ange ), [are] moderate tempo eastern Romanian dance tunes in 4/4 time characterized by 16th-note …
Ange (LKT)
… hangu (Yiddish: honga, ange ), [are] moderate tempo eastern Romanian dance tunes in 4/4 time characterized by 16th-note …
Chasidic in America
… song is in a distinctive instrumental (klezmer) style of Romanian-Moldavian extraction. Weiss sings an ostinato while …
Bella Schaechter-Gottesman
… and moved with her family, as an infant, to Cernauti, Romania (today Chernivtsi, Ukraine). Her mother sang a wide …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… chansons (e.g. Gaston Paris, “La chanson du chevreau,” Romania 1 [1872], 218-225) and nursery-rimes (‘ Ah! Tu …