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Freylekhs (LKT)
… deed] of dancing with or for the bride. Among Jews from the Bukovina region where Hasidism was … They held each other by the shoulders, or by kerchiefs...” [Russia and Poland, 1930s]. Alpert 1996a, p. 18 . … From what many klezmorim tell us, the skočna among Jews was not a separate dance-type. Usually they called a …

Hirsch Glik
… his internment, Glik continued writing poems. In 1944, as Russian forces were closing in, he escaped from the camp to …
Zoock (Volkstanz) – Zhok (Folk dance)
… the folk tunes and referred to an early transcription of a Jews’ Dance based on sustained drone of seventh, see example …

Volekh (LKT)
… melody ( beniggun valuchu ) was because in Walachia the Jews suffered the greatest cruelties of the tyrants … ‘volekhlekh’ at the head table.” [Byten, Grodno province, Russia, c. 1905-1911]. Rabinovitch 1940, pp. 203-04 . … in which only the first and third beats are accented. Among Jews, the volekhl is most often played in conjunction with …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… in a town called Felixburg which was renamed Kurland by the Russians. [2] Yiska's dad's dad was Azriel Idelsohn. He was … Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews are so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with … advice of relatives, to London intending to enroll at the Jews’ College where I would begin to study English. However, …

Quadrille (LKT)
… padekater, quadrille, polka, waltz, etc...played for both Jews and non-Jews.” Feldman 1994, p. 10 . “We find in a memorial book of … : derived from the national dances of other countries (Russia, Poland, Roumania, etc.).” Lapson 1943, p. 461 . …
Amnon Shiloah
… libraries thorough Europe, Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Russia, and Uzbekistan. These volumes, an obligatory tool … exclusive ethnographic experience among the contemporary Jews of the Lands of Islam who moved to Israel. Of … is his work with the small enclave of Greek-speaking Jews that survived the Holocaust. Besides the RISM volumes …
Moshe Attias
… he had towards the way the State of Israel treated Moroccan Jews (see more below), he remained a local patriot. A … as grievances against the state’s approach to all Moroccan Jews since their massive immigration. Deri is portrayed, as … center of a public controversy was “Arusiyyat,” meaning “Russian women.” A report in the NRG website from January 1, …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a possible source of inspiration: Die Wacht am … non-Jewish nations, Poland, Germany as well as the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires. The text of Imber’s … is not distinctively Rumanian, circulated in Moldavia among Jews and non-Jews and was adapted to several texts in …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… the 16 th and 17 th centuries, descendants of the exiled Jews immigrated to the Netherlands from Spain and Portugal. … Among the refugees were wealthy Spanish and Portuguese Jews and Huguenot merchants who fled from Antwerp and … France. After their exile from Spain in 1492, some of the Jews first escaped to Portugal. However, there they …