… impact on Binder’s personal commitment to Zionism. Only two years after beginning his work with Wise, Binder travelled … used to perform it at our shule assembly for Rosh Hashanah. Years later, as a teenager, I notated the song as best I could. Somewhere I may have that original notation. Some years after that, I asked Molly where she had learned it, …

Noam Sheriff (b. Tel-Aviv, 1935-2018), composer, conductor and lecturer. Sheriff is the…

… the face of new competition), the family settled for a few years in the adjacent Dańdówka, a small village with no … radio station received due scholarly attention in recent years ( Katz 2003 ; Davis 2013 ), Geshuri’s efforts in the … niggun. The kernel of his ideas maturated in the following years, including the war period, leading to the …

… Month to this text, that was already featured is previous years, in order to analyze two new recordings, one Moroccan …

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

… come to assume choirmaster duties there. Shlisky’s early years in Toronto were not easy. The cantor, who Shlisky … had emigrated to Toronto. In about 1910, at only 16 or 17 years of age, Shlisky married Minnie Rinzler, a … (TCM), run by her friend Dr. Augustus S. Vogt. During his years at the TCM, Shlisky either continued to perform or …

… among them: the Zadikof choir, which he conducted for 12 years, founding its children's choir, various theater …

… and enthusiastic young musicians starting around the 1970s. Beginning with an archive of 78 rpm recordings, the … the headiness of this active and (now) fabled era: in forty years of analyzing the melodic lines of two clarinetists, in … Although I have valued Rubin as a colleague for over twenty years, and have never picked up a clarinet, his book gave me …

… the ‘Mitzvah Dance’ (‘Dance of the Precept’).” [New York, 1970s]. Seid 1975, p. 13 .  “On Wednesday they bring the … never seen this myself, only heard of it happening forty years ago from old klezmers .) In the evening the... groom’s …