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19. Josepf the Righteous (Yossef HaTzaddiq)
A performance of three related and sometimes separate songs about Joseph, sung for…
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
Idelsohn was born in Filsberg, Latvia (former Kurland or Courland) and began his…
Mordechai Breuer
Mordechai Breuer was born in the city of Frankfurt am Main on April, 1918. He was the…
Seliha-Selihot
The word Seliha (plural- Selihot) means forgiveness in Hebrew.
In the singular form…
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
The Baqqashot (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish…
Volekh (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
A Recovered Voice from the Past
Preface
The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German…
Haim Effendi
In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few…
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
Kashtan (Shlomoh ben Shimshon, or Salomon, the son of Samson), aka Salomon Weintraub…