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Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… been reflected in the emergence of three Yiddish dialects (Lithuanian Yiddish in the North, Polish and Ukrainian … operatic gestures, numerous nigunim by the Ukrainian and Lithuanian-Belarusian Hasidim adhered more closely to the … to the study of the cultural history of eastern-European Jews (ibid., 82–110). The tish-nigunim as a phenomenon …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… genuine Jewish piety. At the age of 12 years, I was sent to Lithuanian jeshivas, where I remained five years. During … modern city with German culture, my father picked for me a Lithuanian teacher in a Lithuanian-type cheder despite my … Upon Zangwill’s question, how can I return to Russia, where Jews are so maltreated, I answered that I prefer to be with …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German … region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian Jewish South Africa, and Midwestern American … Yemenites, Arabs, falla h im, [3] Georgians, Sephardic Jews, kushim , [4] Galician Jews and so forth. All sorts of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… from minority communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, Russians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, Belarussians, Latgalians, Livornians, … songs in 1899), a complete Hebrew publication devoted to Lithuanian folk literature appeared (Yardeni-Zakheim 1928). …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… [1] It has been retold by generation after generation of Jews in various vernacular languages, in both oral and … Isaac has constituted a common motif in works of art among Jews throughout the ages (Sabar 2009, 9–27). In Jewish … The Traditional Chant of the Synagogue According to the Lithuanian-Jerusalem Musical Tradition. Vol. 1. Jerusalem: …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… deed] of dancing with or for the bride. Among Jews from the Bukovina region where Hasidism was … There also it was the same custom among the Hungarian Jews.” Ben-Ezra 1965, p. 27 . “When a girl becomes a wife, … century. To them can be added the ethnographer of Lithuanian and White Russian Jews, Moshe Berlin, who brings …
Kosher-tants (LKT)
… century. To them can be added the ethnographer of Lithuanian and White Russian Jews, Moshe Berlin, who brings in his study only the …
Beroyges-tants
… the klezmorim . [In another description, from a wedding of Lithuanian Jews in America, c. 1959:] The guests stand in a large … Samuel Rappaport, on the religious life of Eastern European Jews, he records that the ‘beroyges’ dance, was arranged …
Worlds That Passed
… Zaḳs … A. S. Sachs … Jewish life and customs … Lithuania … Lithuanian jews … Eastern Ashkenazi … Abraham Simchah Sachs … Worlds …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… Republic with full political and national rights for Jews.' Picture taken from the YIVO encyclopedia website . … to the Jewish worker rather than those of the wealthy Jews. The following segment raises the question of who will … der yiddisher arbeter Bund,” (long live the Russian, Lithuanian, and Polish Jewish labor Bund). This song clearly …