The appellations “psalms” and “canticles” in the title of this volume are used in their extra-religious generic sense to suggest the medium of choral music outside the sacred realm, although ...>

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Table of Contents Introduction Incentives for Immigration Typical Circumstances Orthodox Immigration Professional and Business Classes Cultural Ramifications Evolution of Cultural Curiosity The Persisting Populist Character More Substantive Aspects “Huddled Masses” and “Wretched Refuse” The Unromanticized Reality of Welcome Immigration Policies and Battles Communal ...>

Allusions to Hebrew or Yiddish song are most frequently assumed to connote popular, folk, folklike, commercial, pedagogic, or theatrical genres and, in the case of Hebrew, kibbutz, ḥalutz (pioneer), aliya, ...>

Although the very thought or image of Hassidic life instantly and appropriately evokes its hereditary link with song in an almost Pavlovian sense, the emergence of Hassidism in the 18th ...>

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Table of Contents Part I The Colonial-Era and the Early Years of the Republic Sephardi Complexion of Colonial-Era Synagogues Assertions of Ashkenazi Identity The Western Sephardi Musical Tradition The Emergence of American Jewry Jewish Life and the ...>

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