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Polka

… dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise, quadrille, waltz, …

Polonaise

… dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise, quadrille, waltz, …

Raynlender (LKT)

… dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise, quadrille, waltz, …

… references, the šer is also mentioned very rarely in folk songs. These folk songs are all from the Ukraine (cf. Cahan 1912a: 18 from … word constructions as we find in children’s and counting songs’ (Schünemann 1923:413). This is all we could find in …

Hag Purim – The story behind its melody

… Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, 1928‎. … This setting soon became one of the canonical children songs for Purim in Europe and in the Jewish settlement in … It was also featured in many publications of Jewish folk songs in the early 20th century as a wordless Hassidic …

Skotshne/Skochne

… accompanied by singing... The possibility that such songs (e.g., frejlaxs ) were sung in other Ukrainian …

Tish-nign (LKT)

… money: a vulekhl or a doina , some zmires (religious folk songs), kind of lik Black spirituals, and Yiddish folk songs or theater songs.” Alpert 1996a, p. 16. “These klezmorim know many …

Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies

… similar serial patterns of question and answer counting songs in other traditions, such as Muslim, Latin, German, … find out a possible source. While some of these non-Jewish songs predate the 1526 Prague Haggadah, their structure, in … between them. Other versions, such as the German songs Die zwoelf heiligen Zahlen and O Lector lectorum …