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The BUND and Yiddish revolutionary songs
The General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia, generally called The Bund, was a secular Jewish socialist party in the Russian Empire, active between 1897 and (…)
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Klezmer music: from the past to the present
translated from Hervé Roten’s article.
Klezmer is an instrumental music for celebrations which was once performed in the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe at weddings or joyous religious (…)
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Songs of Sefardi Jews
An introductive article about the singing of Sefardi Jews
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