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Andre Hajdu
Born in Hungary on 5 March 1932 to a characteristically assimilated Hungarian-Jewish…
Nikolai Kaufman
Musicologist, folklorist and composer Nikolay (or Nikolaï) Yankov Kaufman (or Kauffman,…
Israel Adler
… from the Sorbonne in 1963 for his seminal work on the diffusion of art music in certain Western European Jewish …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… “folklorized,” it would be a mistake to think that its diffusion stopped on the American borders. Jewish songs in …
Cleaving tune (Niggun Dvekut)
The term Niggun Devekut, which probably is a Hebrew translation of the Yiddish…
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… of Achad Haam, who became my guide and pathfinder in my confusion—the perplexity of a modern Jew. My father, regarding …
Brakha Tzefira
… Tzefira stands out as playing an important role in this fusion, which was a basis and a background for the … cultures. Debka Fantasia aspires to remember this fusion and to revive it, and this remembrance should include …
Avraham Soltes
Avraham Soltes was born on March 3, 1917, in New York City, to parents who recently…