… in the seder . Until the mid-20 th century, most Ashkenazi Jews intoned this text with a pentatonic learning tune … M. Lessmann, 1933) published an old niggun from West Prussia transmitted to him by K. Lowenstein. Although this … into the Ashkenazi dominated milieu, Sephardic and Oriental Jews learned many metric Haggadah tunes taught in …

… in Jerusalem, where most of the residents were Sephardic Jews from Salonika. Tzefira had unpleasant memories from her … singer and as a choir conductor on various occasions. The Russian director Alexander Diki saw her in one of Hakumkum's … because of the hardship and humiliation they endured as Jews in Europe, and the will to take pride in their culture. …

… texts “elevates” Jewish musical culture, and introduced the Jews to the mainstream European art music narrative even …

… period, apparently predating its use among Sephardic Jews. Manuscript 85 of the Archivio Storico Comunale of … fragments from an order of Selihot of the Ashkenazi Jews in Italy, dated to the 13 th or 14 th century (IMHM, PH … Mahzor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy in St. Petersburg D 101 (F 69720) includes …

… language and language of oral creation of the Ashkenazi Jews of both Western and Eastern Europe, whereas in the … In a similar manner, the folksongs of the Ashkenazi Jews bare resemblance to Western European folksongs, Slavic … in the local vernacular, as well as the adoption by the Jews of folksongs that surround them. However, it can also …

… them can be added the ethnographer of Lithuanian and White Russian Jews, Moshe Berlin, who brings in his study only the …

… the areas that comprise today Lithuania, Belarus, Western Russia, Ukraine and Poland and is now widely practiced in … locus ” for discourses that embody “musical corpora of the Jews with what can be called the ‘aura of antiquity’” (47). … was brought about by a common desire, among East-Ashkenazi Jews, to allow for multiple expressive potentialities in the …

… of Watching a Sufi Dance Ms. Evr.-Arab. 1:1679 of the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg is a unique … sheds an interesting light on the dialogue between medieval Jews in the Islamic World and their Muslim cultural …

… traditional and modern culture which was strongly felt by Jews in the United States during the first half of the … within its wider social context. The mass emigration of Jews from Eastern Europe to America between 1882 and 1924 … at the age of six in his homeland of Bessarabia (Imperial Russia). After his immigration to America he began to sing …

… one of the most popular and widely known among the Yemenite Jews. It is sung on many different occasions, at weddings …