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The Music of the Mountain Jews
A study of the liturgical and folk music of one of the most remote Jewish communities,…
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The Musical Realization of Biblical cantilation symbols (teamim) in the Jewish Yemenite Tradition
The article deals with the Torah reading of the Yemenites Jews of San'a and examines the…
A Song of Dawn
The new 6 CD set of the series “Anthology of Musical Traditions in Israel”, “The…
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Dance tune (Niggun rikud)
A tune used mostly for dancing. The Hebrew term is likely a translation of the earlier…
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
The Baqqashot (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish…
Hora
Origin of the term
The word originates from Rumanian. As an ancient term it meant a…
Brakha Tzefira
Brakha Tzefira was born in Jerusalem in 1910. Her father emmigrated from Yemen in 1887,…
Aharon Amram
Aharon Amram was born in Sana'a, Yemen, in 1939. His father, Rabbi Shlomo Amram, worked…
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
The Yiddish language, which probably began to develop around the tenth century A.D. in…
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Mitsve-tants (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…