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Ofer Ronen
Ofer Ronen was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and at a young age moved to the northern…
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Responsorial Singing
“Call and response,” “responsive,” or “responsorial” is a singing performance style in…
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
Research on the image of the Jew in eighteenth-century literature and theater has not…
Almonds and Raisins
Directed by Russ Karel
Yiddish talking cinema burst into the film scene after…
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
[1]The triple blessing, or the Priestly Blessing, is arguably the most…
Brakha Tzefira
Brakha Tzefira was born in Jerusalem in 1910. Her father emmigrated from Yemen in 1887,…
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Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
Since the establishment of this community, the Karaites have maintained the basic…
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
The Yiddish language, which probably began to develop around the tenth century A.D. in…
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
The beautiful Dutch synagogue is also known by its Ladino name, Esnoga, and is one of…
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Hora (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…