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Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… had a psalmodic formula containing opening and closing motifs; in between them was a simple recitation tone ( tonus … and Caspar Amman’s transcriptions of the Torah cantillation motifs at the beginning of the sixteenth century and the …
Had Gadya
Written in Aramaic, Had Gadya appears at the very end of the Passover Haggadah.…
Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Freylekhs (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… ‘Hatikvah’. [12] Related variants of some of its melodic motifs appear in other Rumanian/Moldavian songs, such as …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…
Sher
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…