… center of a public controversy was “Arusiyyat,” meaning “Russian women.” A report in the NRG website from January 1, 2006, reports on Mwijo’s ferocious text against the Russian Jewish immigrants who moved to Israel after the … selling of pig and dog meat.” Furthermore, Mwijo accused Russian women of “kidnapping his brain” and taking money …

… M. Lessmann, 1933) published an old niggun from West Prussia transmitted to him by K. Lowenstein. Although this … renamed Ephraim Abileah (1881-1953).  A Russian-born Jewish immigrant in Palestine, Abileah was a …

Synagogal art music prior to the Emancipation (17th-18th centuries), from Italy,…

Originally published as: Jüdische Musiker am Hofe von Mantua von 1542-1628. Translated…

… those areas of Ukraine (then part of Poland and later the Russian Empire). By the nineteenth century, it had become a … Twersky (1808–1882) of Talne (Yiddish spelling: Tolne; in Russian: Talnoye); hence his nickname “Tolner.”  While the … internal traditions and external influences—from Polish and Russian elites, as well as from Ukrainian peasant culture. A …

… raised and educated in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, or Russia, developed the Mediterranean style in their music …

Judith Cohen was born in Germany. When she has four year old,  she immigrated to…

… communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, Russians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, Belarussians, Latgalians, Livornians, and Estonians (p. xiv). … Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish) usually impede access for the …

… Nulman 1975, p. 130 .  “... karahod  -- from the Russian word karavhod , for a circle dance. (mus. ex. 21).” …