… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its practice at ceremonies of Jewish institutions, synagogues, schools and youth … throughout the European, Middle Eastern and American Jewish diasporas, was a crucial component in the nourishing …

… songs that were instrumentally performed at Israeli Hasidic weddings. Second, they intentionally do not relate to the … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is … is highlighted: Textless songs have probably been common in Jewish life for a long time. This could be connected with …

… Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a history of … and saints, or Leidensgeschichte and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the … rabbinic elites. In the twentieth century, scholars of the Jewish past have moved far beyond this constricting …

… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … the special favor of the Duke who allowed her, as the only Jewish pupil, to visit his German primary school. All her … . The various synagogues were conducted according to the customs of the respective countries, and their traditional …

… Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned narrative describes how the first Jewish family (Abraham, Sarah and Isaac) came close to … of such a musical instruction is found in the book of customs, Minhagei Maharil : “When a circumcision took place …

… the four days of fast, and thrice on Yom Kippur. All of the Jewish communities in Israel, both Sephardic and Ashkenazi, … Blessing in the Ashkenazi Tradition While all of the Jewish communities, from Yemen to Lithuania, developed … performed the ceremony less than all of the other Jewish communities. In the Ashkenazi communities of the …