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Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… motors imported from Germany. He assiduously expanded his linguistic abilities, taking evening courses in German, …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… employs strategies that help him gain a foothold, using a linguistic theoretical framework (drawn on Benjamin …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… on a massive project to record their unique musical and linguistic traditions. To his end, Idelsohn was awarded a … to the first century c.e. He argued that their musical and linguistic traditions were relatively uninterrupted by …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… and Roz Cron, or those who simply aped “African American” linguistic tropes and mannerisms, such as jazz disc jockey …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… Testimony: Harcanot et Barcanot (Critical Edition and Linguistic Analysis), Journal of Jewish Languages 9 (2021): …

סוחר-צמר-פילוסוף יהודי במוצול דן במוסיקה בהשראת צפייה בריקוד צוּפי
… במונחים ערביים מוסלמיים ראו Joshua Blau, The Emergence and Linguistic Background of Judaeo-Arabic, (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… of the Baltic States. He quotes Melngailis’s mention of the linguist Sergei Bulich, according to whom the “originary … roots of European cultures, a theory grounded on strong linguistic evidence. The critique was motivated by racist …

Freylekhs (LKT)
… not in a dance context. There were a large number of linguistic variants for the freylakhs (such as hopke , …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… the “other” Ashkenazi Jews. See Jacobs, Neil G. Yiddish: A Linguistic Introduction . Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, …