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Kolomeyke (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Tin Pan Alley
Nickname for the popular songwriting and sheet-music publishing industry centred in New…
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… Uphold their beeches, to lengthen their days/ with their God’s Torah, in the lives of their parents/ By the merits of …
9. Sariman Talamūṭi (The Noble Bridegroom)
A "play song" from Kochi, in the form of a dialogue between the bride and a cuckoo bird…
Jascha Nemtsov
Jascha Nemtsov was born in Magadan (Siberia) in 1963 and grew up in Saint Petersburg…
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof HaGalil) neighborhood…
2. Pāloṭu paḻam Taruven (Parrot Song)
A popular “play song” usually accompanied by clapping and a circle dance, this is also…
Hin’ni Haaniyah Mimaas (Here I am, poor in worthy deeds)
… wearing a long beard. Instead, he inserted a request that God accept the cantor’s supplications as the prayer of …
יהודי תימן שירתם ונגינתם
A thorough introduction to the history and culture of Yemenite Jews, for the erudite…