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The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam

… in Holland in the 17 th century and quickly founded an Ashkenazi community that became the largest Jewish community … (Nusah) The synagogue conducts prayers according to the Western European Sephardic tradition, with minimal, late … style of this synagogue is the result of a mixture of Western and Eastern elements. A similar fusion is found in …

Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German

… its author) as well as Libushitzky’s Hebrew translation in Ashkenazi pronunciation. [2] The earliest Hebrew translation … in an article on the Zionist movement in Stryj/Stryi (in Western Ukraine). [7] More interesting however is the … … Rev. M. I. Broyda … Sehnsucht … Zionist anthem … “F..d” … Ashkenazi … Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in …

Hag Purim – The story behind its melody

… the Song of the Month to a very popular Eastern European Ashkenazi melody that, in the early 1920s, was set by the … h ” prayer at the end of the Sabbath morning services in Ashkenazi synagogues, mainly outside of Israel, and some …

Sirba

… right, kick to the left. This dance pattern was alien to Ashkenazic dance, which preferred symmetrical … around 1920 [in NY]...[the]style shows the influence of Western art music and the pace is a bit slower than the …

On a Particular Case of Tonal, Modal, and Motivic Components in Sources for Liturgical Music of East and West European Origins

… Union of Jewish Studies, Magnes … … 3 … 2009 … Eastern Ashkenaz … Western Ashkenaz … Ashkenazi liturgical music … Ashkenazi … Boaz …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections

… melos” that is cross-culturally widespread and of which the Western Sephardic piyyut Lekh le-shalom geshem (see detailed … by Idelsohn), is found in the liturgical repertory of the Western Sephardic communities. It is the melody of the … another Jewish melody, the Leoni Yigdal , see below under Ashkenazi hypothesis) with the Italian predecessors (see …