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Mitsve Tants

… to eastern Europe in the 18th century at the latest. In Jewish musar literature and minhagim books of the 17th and 18th century, …

… of Jerusalem. The Ades synagogue was founded in 1901 by the Jewish immigrants from Aleppo (northern Syria) and since its … liturgical style. This style merges diverse Jewish practices from the Middle East, such as the urban … text does not shine otherwise as an independent piece of literature. It only makes sense in the context of its …

Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)

… Research on the image of the Jew in eighteenth-century literature and theater has not identified any musical … music. This music surfaces after the first positive Jewish characters began to appear on the German stage, … a number of attempts to represent the unique character of Jewish music, now presented as a distinctly different …

‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)

… playing in 2010 and are a self-proclaimed ‘100% Trans Jewish band.’ One definition to the term transgender can be … other genres, punk music, polkas, cantorial singing, and Jewish melodies (including direct musical quotes from … treatment of the subject in relation to American Jewish literature and arts see, Hoffman, Warren D. The Passing …

Had Gadya

… of intensive study by a distinguished gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting … important study recapitulates most of the previous relevant literature on the topic while at the same time offers a …

Had Gadya in Israeli Culture

Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture

… manginot mibeit Abba", produced by Renanot : Institute for Jewish music. CD1703 in the National Sound Archive. Score … before the mealtime Grace is mentioned in medieval literature. The everyday equivalent to Shir hama’alot is Al … the second half of the twentieth century, when many German Jewish liturgical traditions fell into oblivion, the …

Zalman Reyzn

… was a philologist of the Yiddish language, a historian of literature, an editor and translator into Yiddish, a … … Lexicographer and Literary Historian of Yiddish literature … 0 … Yiddish … Literature … Historian … Zalman Reyzn …

Mordkhe Shekhter

… 1927, in Czernowitz, Ukraine. He descended from a secular Jewish family. Until 1940 he was a pupil in a Romanian … During this period, he worked for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, as a zamler , or collector, for the YIVO … also taught in the Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture from its beginning in 1968 until …

Zhok (LKT)

… Europe, especially in Hungary, Moravia, and Rumania, Jewish youths would assemble on Saturday afternoons for … zhok as if it were a new innovation that was not really Jewish. He left Kiev in the Ukraine in the 1920’s perhaps. … Romanian music. The ‘zhok’ entered to a great extent the literature of the klezmorim , and some creations in the …