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God, Man and Devil

… … Yiddish Films … Yiddish songs … Joseph Seiden … Film … Eastern Europe … Yiddish Theater … Jacob Gordin … …

Karaite Jews Musical Tradition

… of the Karaites was balanced between Europe and the Near East. During the next few hundred years, additional Karaite … Egypt and Byzantium as well as in Crimeria, Lithuania, and Eastern Poland. During that period, the development of the … the 19 th century. With the rise of oppressive regimes in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19 th century and first …

Brakha Tzefira

… Tzefira In relation to Tzefira's role as mediator between eastern melodies and the forming 'Israeli' music, the recent … . [4] The expression 'art music' is problematic to say the least. It comes to signify what is sometimes called …

Elohim Eshala

… late Romantic techniques employed to represent the “Middle East,” underscores the composer's classical European … as the solo clarinet in the opening that recalls in fact Eastern European Jewish music. The attempt in the first … the song accompanied by a sharqi ensemble (lit. “Middle Eastern” Arab ensemble). This recording of the song …

Kedusha

… have a unique melody. However, in the Ashkenazi Nussach of Eastern Europe, for example, there is a tendency to perform …

Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim

… Three Pilgrimage Festivities and the High Holy Days. The Eastern European communities took the limitations the … for the Priestly Blessing. Paradoxically, it was, at least in part, because the Ashkenazi Diaspora communities … of the Priestly Blessings of the Ashkenazi synagogue from east to west, one finds that the melodies may range from …