… chapter about the African-American appropriation of Jewish songs and themes, as though Smith had not been a Jew. If not … Initially he wished an adaptation of The Dybbuk (a Yiddish play by S. Ansky) to be the vehicle for the first … In those very early years, composers wrote “ethnic” songs for ethnic stage characters to perform, including …

… In Yiddish, Tish means table. In the Hasidic movement, the Tish …

… military marches (2/4 and 6/8), and popular pieces from the Yiddish theatre, often in fox-trot, waltz, tango, and even …

… and his illustrious legacy as the grandson of a famous Yiddish folksinger who roamed the streets of Vilna, not to … the Society dutifully translated its own name into both Yiddish ( Gezelshaft far yidisher folks-muzik ) and Hebrew ( …

… droshe-geshank-oyfshpiln and other entertainment songs...” Fater 1985, pp. 60-61 .  “Mitzvah Dance ( Mitsve … “The ritual dance [is] (‘ mitsve tants’ or kosher tants in Yiddish) performed, as a norm, by several male guests … only the kosher-tants . Harkavi is the only one that in his Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary made a distinction between …

… Following common practice, I will also use trope (from the Yiddish trop ) to refer to the different modes used for the … on Purim; and (6) one for the festive megillot —Song of Songs, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes—read on Passover, Shavuot, and … find that the modes for Torah readings and for the Song of Songs, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes both use a major scale, but …