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Mekhutenim-tants
… [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of the style … looking at these last dances, outside of sources found in [Eastern European Jewish] folk song, we have nothing about …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… new conditions in terms of both Russian politics and European antisemitism. Most of all, it is due to the fact … composer Aleksandr Spendiarov: “You by birth are an Eastern person, for you the East, as they say, is in your … of Zionist Hebrew kinus in the yishuv differed from that of Eastern Europe. The post-Balfour result was that Zionism no …
Shemele (LKT)
… [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of the style … looking at these last dances, outside of sources found in [Eastern European Jewish] folk song, we have nothing about …
Khosid/Khosidl (LKT)
… Hasidic style, in a stately 2/4 rhythm. In some regions of Eastern Europe, synonomous with freylekhs.” Alpert 1996b, p. 59 . ( …
Bulgar (LKT)
… full reference. “ Bulgar or bulgarish is a common East European Jewish music and dance form, usually in 2/4 time. … of the American-Jewish repertoire, popular in parts of Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. … from the first half of the 19th century. The bulgarish , in Eastern Europe only regionally popular, gradually became the …
Doyne (LKT)
… achieved currency among klezmorim throughout a wide area of Eastern Europe. Primarily intended for listening rather than … to the non-Jewish epic ballads from Wallachia in Southeastern Romania... Improvisations like taksim and doyne were …
Volekh (LKT)
… such as freylekhs, volekhls, shers, kozakl, polke ... Eastern European Jews were accustomed to invite each guest to an …
Yekhiel Yeshaye Trunk
… many books. Full biography at The YIVO Encyclopedia Jews in Eastern Europe (Author: Jan Schwarz) A list of his publications at …
Kozak (LKT)
… shers, kozakl, polke... ” Stutschewsky 1959, p. 164 . “Eastern European Jews were accustomed to invite each guest to a …
Patsh Tants (LKT)
… dance was widespread in the region of Vilna... [and all of] Eastern Europe...” Fridhaber 1972, pp. 32-33 . “Patch Tanz. Dance (lit. ‘clap dance’) of Eastern European origin, In a slow duple meter, it is part …