… A lively circle or line dance, the most common in East European Jewish wedding dance repertoire, in 4/4 … of the dance choreography of a freylekhs , as danced near Kiev ca. 1900-1915, includes following data: “Eight … with a different ending form in the style of the period....Nearly all the melodies reach their peak on the second …

… table. In the Hasidic movement, the Tish is the public feast of the rabbi (see: Admor ), held with a large crowd. During the feast, the rabbi and/or his Hasidim, sing niggunim , Zemirot … rabbi, the 'Torah.' The giving of a Torah sermon during a feast is not a Hasidic invention. Since the Mishna era, …

… a Jewish presence in Gibraltar is documented since at least the 14th century, the modern history of the Jews in … and more materials by him will be uploaded in the near future. The lore of James Levy that we are releasing …

… The triple-meter hora, the primary form of the genre among East European Jews, is common in northeastern Romania and among Bukovina Ukrainians. Among … Orthodox and Hasidic communities. In a much wider area of Eastern Europe, horas were frequently used as processional …

… of the eve of Rosh Hashanah service in Sephardic and Eastern synagogues. It was composed by Abraham Hazzan, whose … … Rosh Hashanah … Rhodes … Ahot ketanah … Ahot qetanah … Eastern Sephardi … 3. The Little Sister (Aḥot Qetanah) … …

Paul Muni was born in Lemberg, Austria in 1895. Muni's parents, both actors in a…

… as a cantor in New York. The Secunda's settled in the Lower East Side of New York City in a tenement building on 12th … to lead services at the Thalia Theater on the Lower East Side. It was then that he came into contact with … to send actors and composers outside of New York for at least three years before considering their candidacy. In …

… music, aesthetics, and Jewish nationalism in fin-de-siecle Eastern Europe, I will explore how Idelsohn understood the … many, it nonetheless received wide coverage, succeeding at least metaphorically in giving Jewish sound a continuous, …

… (NLI, Sound Archive Yc1494/17) and will appear in the near future in Weich-Shahak’s forthcoming publication …

… Nearing his death, Arnold Schoenberg wrote to Josef Rufer on … his String Trio of 1946 partially depicts the course of his near fatal illness of that year even his resuscitation from …