[1]The triple blessing, or the Priestly Blessing, is arguably the most…

… melody. [8] And ‘On the rivers of Babylon’ according to the mourning melody [probably ‘You fell victims in a fatal …

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…

Introduction It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…

Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German…

This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of Idelsohn’…

…             Esther and Lamentations Modes: Celebration and Mourning                                                     … holiday of raucous celebration; Tisha B’Av is a day of deep mourning. There are also differences in the modes, … Verses from Esther that deal with topics of sadness and mourning are commonly read in Lamentations trope (see …