… the Halakhot that were customary for the Ashkenazi Jews in that period. His version would become the template of practice for all of the Jews of Ashkenaz.   There are different traditions regarding … these verses out loud. In the late nineteenth century, in Lithuanian and Latvian synagogues, they were even sung as …

… Jewish piety.  At the age of 12 years, I was sent to Lithuanian jeshivas, where I remained five years.  During … Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews were so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with … song; even Lewandowski seemed Germanized.  The life of the Jews in Germany, too, was Germanized.  This was not only …

… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German … region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian Jewish South Africa, and Midwestern American … Yemenites, Arabs, falla h im, [3]  Georgians, Sephardic Jews, kushim , [4] Galician Jews and so forth. All sorts of …

… deed] of dancing with or for the bride. Among Jews from the Bukovina region where Hasidism was … There also it was the same custom among the Hungarian Jews.” Ben-Ezra 1965, p. 27 .  “When a girl becomes a wife, … century. To them can be added the ethnographer of Lithuanian and White Russian Jews, Moshe Berlin, who brings …

Mordekhai (Mordecai; Mordkhe) Hershman was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov…

… been reflected in the emergence of three Yiddish dialects (Lithuanian Yiddish in the North, Polish and Ukrainian … operatic gestures, numerous nigunim by the Ukrainian and Lithuanian-Belarusian Hasidim adhered more closely to the … to the study of the cultural history of eastern-European Jews (ibid., 82–110). The tish-nigunim as a phenomenon …