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Moritz Rosenhaupt
… Professor weiland Louis Lewandowski , ed. Aron Friedmann, Berlin: C. Boas Nchf, pp. 137-141 Herz, Reinhold. 1937. …
Ve-Hi She-’Amda – Piyyut from the Passover Haggadah
This piyyut appears in ancient Haggadot and the author is unknown. It addresses how,…
Tora und Shira: Untersuchungen zur Musikauffassung des rabbinischen Judentums
An exploration of rabbinucal conceptions of music through texts addressing the Biblical…
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… the twelfth century (Ms. Or. fol. 1224 Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, fol. 148, more likely … the Seventeenth of Tammuz.” Figure 1: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ms. Or. 1224, fol. 148a … text became a fixed feature. Figure 2. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ms. Or. 1224, fol. 148b, …
Mitsve Tants
The Mitsve Tants, or Kosher Tants, is a ritual dance imbued with mystical significance.…
Avraham Soltes
Avraham Soltes was born on March 3, 1917, in New York City, to parents who recently…
Zemerl (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Rafael Schächter
Rafael Schächter was born May 27, 1905, in Braila (Rumania). After World War I,…
Ne’ilah
Nei’la is the fifth and last service of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). In contrast to…
“Die alte Kasche” (Volkslied) – The Old Question (Folksong)
Die alte Kasche stands out in the Yiddish folksong corpus for its simplest and yet…