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Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching emotional response…
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… and night copying his manuscripts. Father formed a choir of cantors to sing Hebrew songs for records. One day [in 1922] … hear how the choir sang. It was not so easy to teach the cantors to sing together in harmony and in such a way that … a ‘clean’ recording on the records. [26] The names of the cantors who sang were: [Salomo] Pinkasowicz, [27] Yossef …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… versions appear in the important piyutim manuscripts of the hazzanim (cantors) of the Hacohen family of Sarajevo, Moshe ben …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… of the above-mentioned repertoires. [3] Moreover, synagogue cantors, ḥazzanim, often tended to structure new …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… prayer leader). He was a descendant of a family of cantors and singers associated with Hassidic courts in …
Hay ram galeh
… performed by Moshe Havusha, one of the most distinguished hazzanim and paytanim of the Sephardic-Jerusalem school to …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… three other recordings of the Aleppo version by prominent cantors from the Aleppine communities in Latin America: …

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