… to all the children of the diaspora [bnei ha-galut] in the Middle East. Back then it was hard to understand why this thing had …

… Hasidic style, in a stately 2/4 rhythm. In some regions of Eastern Europe, synonomous with freylekhs.” Alpert 1996b, p. … piece Khosidl or A Mitsve Tentsl but does not include the middle section. He recalls hearing it played in the 1910s by klezmorim from the East Galician town of Sniatyn... The first section is a very …

… 223, 263–267, 318–319; Goldschmidt 1965b, 9), while at least one example utilizes monorhyme. [10]  Still, the … which was in practice in his days, originated in the Middle Ages: “the tune was customary in the fourteenth … the latter, Levi agrees that the melody originates in the Middle Ages, and he mentions the possibility of its being …

… to My Homeland"). Wilensky's music blended European and Middle Eastern elements, reflecting a style shared by prominent …

… a chilling reference to the old Jewish communities of Eastern Europe that vanished in the Holocaust. It can also … mode, and returns to D minor, the original tonality, in the middle. There is a sustaining second degree on the down-beat …

… the non-Jewish communities of Israel/Palestine and of the Middle East . This newly created archive absorbed into its holdings …

… well and good. The custom of eating cheese stems from the Middle Ages, when people used to give the wedding couple …

… varies according to community. [3] For example in the south-eastern city of Rada'a, which once housed a considerable … ceremony is practiced by Jewish communities throughout the Middle East and North Africa and, as in the case of the Yemenite …

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…