Since the establishment of this community, the Karaites have maintained the basic…

… from Russian culture. Their goal was fuller Jewish integration – to become part of Russian culture (and … national music inside an imperial context. This mixture of integrationist and separatist impulses found expression in …

… of scales—a clear preference for natural minor—and the integration of scales containing the interval of an …

Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…