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Isadore Freed
… Harmonizing the Jewish Modes , in which he offers a systematic harmonic language by which to understand the … the synagogue mode, unlike the Western major-minor scale system, was characterized by its non-dominant coloring. His …
Yetta Zwerling
Yetta Zwerling was a Yiddish actress in America during the 1930s and 1940s.
Born on…
Leyb Rozental
Leyb Rozental was one of the most prolific writers of revue theater in the Vilna ghetto…
Polka-mazurka
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Aḥot qetanah
Aḥot qetanah, or little sister, is a hymn that is traditionally sung on Rosh Hashanah.…
Eduard Birnbaum
… or the original publisher. He also developed a complex card system which organizes the musical material by melodic and …
Di Kishefmakerin (The Sorceress)
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Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
Jacques Stroumsa was born in Salonika in 1913, the son of a distinguished teacher and…
