“Call and response,” “responsive,” or “responsorial” is a singing performance style in…

… circle remains just wide enough for the old man to freely swing the stick as he dances. The old man commandingly turns … on his knees, his whole body bent forward. He begins to swing the cane with great speed in front of him, and then he … shake. Gradually, he raises himself from the ground while swinging the cane in time to the msuic and accelerating the …

Sarah Harat was born in Sana'a in 1922 to Abraham Khobara and Yonah (Khamama) from the…

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…

If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…