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Chasidic in America
… to singing cantorial music and returns home to his family’s shtetl . The intersection between tradition and modernity in …
Beroyges-tants
… Years Ago’ he comes with events that were customary in his shtetl Gingubka (or Zinifka) in Podalia and the neighboring …
Amnon Shiloah
Born in Lanus, Argentina in 1928 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Syria, Shiloah…
Haim Louk
Rabbi Haim Louk was born in 1942 in Casablanca, Morocco, to a family originally from…
Sara Levi-Tanai
Sara Levi-Tanai was an Israeli choreographer, playwright, and lyricist renowned for her…
Freylekhs (LKT)
… the klezmers , were the poor tailors and porters of the shtetl. After them, the klezmorim , went the in-laws, the guests and the children of the shtetl.” Fenster 1964, pp. 155-56 . “ ‘Freylakhs.’ ” As …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
The Baqqashot (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish…
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of…
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… 1913 (that is, when Yosl was still alive) in the Volynian shtetl Dubno (northwestern Ukraine). [9] The informant, … Lukin, Michael. [2025]. “Collective Singing in the Jewish Shtetl,” Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics , 19 (1) …