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Volume 40, Issue 2
Special Issue: History and Aesthetics of Ashkenazi Jewish Music: ca. 1600-1920
Guest Editors: Walter Zev Feldman
Articles
Ethnogenesis and the Interrelationship of Musical Repertoires
Among the Jews of Eastern Europe
by Walter Zev Feldman
The Unique Character of Prayer Chant Among the East European Jews: Part I: System, Practice and Aesthetics—A Preliminary View
by Judit Frigyesi
The Cantor as a National Leader: Thought and Music of
Cantor Pinkhas Minkowsky
by Anat Rubinstein
The Folk Song of the Ashkenazim: The Problem of Genre Definition
by Evgenia Khazdan
The Yiddish Wedding Folk Songs of East European Jews:
Function, Ethnography, Sociology, Texts, and Music
by Lyudmilla Sholokhova
At the Crossroads: The Early Modern Yiddish Folk Ballad
by Michael Lukin
Musical Fusion and Allusion in the Core and the
Transitional Klezmer Repertoires
by Walter Zev Feldman
Reviews
Judit Niran Frigyesi, Writing on Water
reviewed by Jonathan Boyarin
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