… part, the descriptions of weddings date from the nineteenth century, and at that time men did not participate in couple … among the masses only in the second half of the nineteenth century. As is known, the polka was created only around 1830 … last 20 to 25 minutes. Among Eastern European Jews in the 19th century, the sher was apparently only performed by …

… of forms and gave rise to the Mitzvah dances. A 16th-century source published in Venice described the Mitzvah … ha-Yashar , Frankfurt, 1704). By the beginning of the 19th century it became the practice for men to dance with the …

… appear in non-Ashkenazi haggadot only during the nineteenth century. While the Ashkenazi version of the text printed in … mi yodea” originated in Ashkenazi communities in the 13th century and arrived to the Sephardic communities in the … who fled the Rhein valley following the late thirteenth century persecutions and settled eventually in Toledo, …

… Comtadin was already in sharp decline by the mid-nineteenth century. A perception of this decay, the result of the … and Morocco to Southern France since the early nineteenth century. As we shall see, the Psalm verses discussed below … tentatively to Abraham ben Moshe Crescas of Provence (15th century). [2] Could this mean that versions of this …

… in which he recalled a joke from his student days a half century earlier: [1]  “Why are there so many Jewish students … musical achievement that circulated in the early twentieth century actually took on a life of their own, influencing … Empire Jews: Jewish Nationalism and Acculturation in 19th and Early 20th Century Russia (Bloomington: Slavica …

… Ashkenazic diaspora center that emerged during the tenth century in present day southern Germany and northern France. … 2008), as well as within various sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Yiddish epics (Dreeßen 1971, 57–58; Matenko and … that the poem itself was composed as early as the fifteenth century (Staerk and Leitzmann 1923, 271), while …

… world during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In musical terms, the Nahda is associated with the … popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that continues amongst Syrian Jews today (Kligman … 1993. “On the Beginnings of the Singing of the Bakkashot in 19th Century Jerusalem.” Pe’amin 56: 106-124. (Hebrew) …

… we know that in Bessarabia from the beginning of the 19th Century you had Ashkenazi Jews coming in large numbers. … the ‘Kosher Dance!’” [Zhagare, Lithuania, late nineteenth-century]. Sachs 1928, pp. 144-45 .  “Freilachs: a merry …