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Society for Jewish Folk Music

… Loewe (“My Fair Lady”) and Richard Rodgers (“Oklahoma”, “South Pacific”) grew up in the musical culture that the St. …

Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim

… by the Talit, to and fro, left and right (from north to south) in order to include the entire congregation in their …

Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)

… probably began to develop around the tenth century A.D. in south Germany, was the main spoken language and language of …

… Annual Festival of the Atlantic Andalusias, held in the southern Moroccan port of Essaouira. [6] In the early 1960s, … Morocco, El Fassia immigrated to Israel and settled in the southern port of Ashkelon, in conditions very different from …

Andalusian Nuba

… its Christian inhabitants, the Muslims were pushed to the south of Spain before being exiled from the country in the …

Atah Ehad

… notation and stems from Hassidic circles, especially from Southeastern areas of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and was …

Chasidic in America

… performed it on the theater stage, in concerts in North and South America, and in the 1937 Yiddish film The Cantor’s Son …

Doyne (LKT)

… quintessentially identified with Jews from Romania and the southern Ukraine, by the early twentieth century it had … preludes to the non-Jewish epic ballads from Wallachia in Southeastern Romania... Improvisations like taksim and doyne … being the Jewish version of the cimbalom, a central and southeastern European folk instrument.” Slobin 1987, pp. …