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Besem-tants (LKT)

… klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from primary and secondary sources that include or refer to …

Sholem-tants (LKT)

… klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from primary and secondary sources that include or refers to …

… klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from primary and secondary sources that include or refers to … [editor Yom-Tov Levinsky’s note:] ‘shemene-tants’ [comes] from the expression ‘shemen zikh’ -- to be ashamed, because … the dancers would first lower their gaze in shame from the community. Mr. Sh. Eynhorn heard from his mother, …

Shemele (LKT)

… klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from primary and secondary sources that include or refers to … there is a mention of the German dance’s existence from 1500 (and of many similar to it in other lands)...” … under the name ‘shemele.’ And we learn another thing from these two short verses, that it was a dance of the …

Semene (LKT)

… klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from primary and secondary sources that include or refers to …

Semele (LKT)

… klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from primary and secondary sources that include or refers to … not have needed to mention a long-forgotten dance. From this it is clear that through some effort one could … people who remember how it was danced. Old klezmorim from the appropriate regions could tell about this dance and …

«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music

… published a short memoir, in which he recalled a joke from his student days a half century earlier: [1] “Why are … [2] Rosowsky’s joke was pure hyperbole. But it stemmed from a strange fact. On the eve of World War I, over 50% of … time that encircled this curious phenomenon, elevating it from a sociological pattern to a cultural myth. For the …

Mitsve-tants (LKT)

… klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from primary and secondary sources that include or refer to … deed] of dancing with or for the bride. Among Jews from the Bukovina region where Hasidism was predominant, the … Nearly the same [practice] was confided to me by the rabbi from Yas... who lived for many years in Gross-Verdun... There …

Kosher-tants (LKT)

… klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from primary and secondary sources that include or refer to … that my friend, the scholar Dr. Yitzhak Rivkind... wonders from where Avraham Rekhtman derives that the kosher-tants is … a Yiddish name and the melody for the dance is borrowed from another people. Thus, a polonaise might always be played …