… the klezmorim . [In another description, from a wedding of Lithuanian Jews in America, c. 1959:] The guests stand in a large … Samuel Rappaport, on the religious life of Eastern European Jews, he records that the ‘beroyges’ dance, was arranged …

… known as Ponar ), written in response to the mass murder of Lithuanian Jews in Ponary near Vilna. Full biographies: ' Shmerke …

… it closes the twelve temporal hours of the day. Since the Jews of 19 th century Ashkenaz were usually under pressure … recited before the Ashrei. Many Ashkenazi and some Yemenite Jews do not add any prayers before Min h a—they rather begin … prayer is recited silently. This custom can be found in the Lithuanian Yeshivas who believe that extended prayers keep …

… genuine Jewish piety. At the age of 12 years, I was sent to Lithuanian jeshivas, where I remained five years. During … modern city with German culture, my father picked for me a Lithuanian teacher in a Lithuanian-type cheder despite my … Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews are so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with …

… The Seliha genre blossomed during the golden age of the Jews in Spain during which many were written and their style … on the passing year. Sephardic and oriental Jews maintain the tradition of reciting Selihot during this … 1979. NSA YC1463. See text  in a Seder Selihot of the Lithuanian tradition. … Piyyutim … Piyyut … Liturgical music …

… and Kherson regions). Was the  šer  known only to Ukrainian Jews? Certainly not. Although we have no data from the … it does mean that it was not known there previously. The Jews could not have adopted the dance from the Ukrainians … Ukrainians do dance the  šer , they adopted it from the Jews. In Bohme 1886:56 we find a dance named ‘Der Scherer …

… deed] of dancing with or for the bride. Among Jews from the Bukovina region where Hasidism was … From what many klezmorim tell us, the  skočna  among Jews was not a separate dance-type. Usually they called a … and so on. Here it is interesting to establish whether non-Jews adopted Jewish dances. We know of cases in which …

… 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 … Expression of Religious Philosophy among the East-Ashkenazi Jews.'  Shofar  18, no. 4: 3-24.                             …

Joseph Papernikoff was born in the late 1990s (1897 or 1899) in the Russian city of…