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Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Tkhines: The Forgotten Book of Common Prayer for Jewish Women . Translated by Devra Kay. Philadelphia: Jewish …
Idelsohn: The Founder and Builder of the Science of Jewish Music – A Creator of Jewish Song
… arrival in the United States, the Council of Jewish Women in New York Published a second edition of her …
Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… written in spoken Arabic so that the simpler people and the women, who did not know Hebrew very well, could understand …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… the age of 21, Binder founded the Hadassah Choral Union, a women’s choir devoted to the performance of Hebrew Zionist … sung (or more precisely, melodeclamated) by Ashkenazic women at the end of Shabbat known as “Got fun Avrohom” (God …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… enna ceremony as part of the repertoire of Yemenite Jewish women singers. In Yemen, the separation of men and women was customary at day-to-day events as well as during … music in these songs reflects the feelings and state of the women within intimate settings; when they are alone, such as …
Zemerl (LKT)
… begin on Saturday night before the wedding... Young men and women would gather at the bride’s home for a “goodbye party” …
Tvile
… the bride was led into the mikve with klezmer and old women danced in front of her.” [Staro-Konstantin, Ukraine, … the last immersion on her wedding day, she and the other women performed the ‘Mitzvah Dance’ (‘Dance of the …
Tsigayner-tants (LKT)
… the full reference. “The bride had her space, where the women quibbled with the girls, [and] there a konter-tants was danced for [the women’s] approval, one which only the Modnitzers knew, this …
Sheyne-minke (LKT)
… the full reference. “The bride had her space, where the women quibbled with the girls, [and] there a konter-tants was danced for [the women’s] approval, one which only the Modnitzers knew, this …
Sher
… dances. The šer and other couple dances were done by women (or girls) alone. In all the descriptions of weddings no special women’s dances or the šer . There is evidence that in earlier centuries women did indeed dance together with men; however, it is …