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Romanza - Romance
A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition. A narrative poem, a ballad,…

Ghizela Suliteanu
… Romanian ethnomusicologist who collected a great deal of Ashkenazi and Sephardic folk and religious music in Romania. She researched in other fields of ethnomusicology … such as: folk music of Tatars and Turkish communities in Romania and the psychology of folk music. Sources: …

Doyne (LKT)
… “The doina (Yiddish: doyne or doyna ), a free-meter Romanian folk instrumental genre often associated with … the doina is quintessentially identified with Jews from Romania and the southern Ukraine, by the early twentieth … A free-meter but structured melody for listening, from the Romanian-Jewish repertoire. Often performed for guests at …
Goldfaden's Legacy: The Origins of Yiddish Theater
… click on the link above. Goldfaden ’s Legacy (2004) by Romanian filmmaker Radu Gabrea is a documentary that follows … film highlights the pre-war cultural relations between the Romanian and local Jewish population, as well as the … the Avram Goldfaden International Theater Festival in Iaşi, Romania. The film has appeared in a number of Jewish Film …

Volekh (LKT)
… A free-meter but structured melody for listening, from the Romanian-Jewish repertoire. Often performed for guests at … Literally, ‘a Wallachian one,’ i.e., a dance or tune in Romanian-Jewish style.” Alpert 1996b, p. 59 . “Wulach, … “Some southern hassidic songs show the influence of the Romanians; these songs are therefore known under the name …

Romansa Ufiyut (SMR Bresler Collection)
Meyamai lo ra'iti Al saf daltekh Lanetzah Eten haya'ii al bakbukai Shehorot…
Joseph Roman Cycowski
Cycowski was a singer of opera and popular music in Europe, and a cantor in the…
Joseph Moskowitz
… Joseph Moskowitz born in Romania. He was an American cimbalom player, and a recording … repertoire which included not only Jewish music but also Romanian, classical, and ragtime music. Full biography in …

Zhok (LKT)
… it used to accompany dance. Its origin was Moldavian and Romanian music. The ‘zhok’ entered to a great extent the …
Aaron Lebedeff
… villages and towns of Lithuania, Poland, Russia proper, and Romania. This fondness for Old World themes is immediately … Heym' (Far from home) (1926), 'Roumanische Karnatzlach' (Romanian sausage) (1927), and many more. Lebedeff continued …