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Jewish dance is dance associated with Jews and Judaism. Dance has long been used by Jews as a medium for the expression of joy and other communal emotions. Dancing is a favorite pastime and plays a role in religious observance. [1] Dances associated with Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions, especially Jewish wedding dances, are an integral part of
The Horah is a circle dance common in Eastern and Southeastern Europe (known variously as the hora, khoro, horo, or oro) that predates the establishment of the State of Israel. It was introduced to the Mandate of Palestine by Baruch Agadati in 1924. It has become an icon of Jewish and Israeli folk dance.
Bergstein created a ceremony and dances for kibbutz weddings. These celebrations, involving the entire kibbutz, incorporated word, sound, and movement, combining Jewish practices from various ethnic communities, including the traditional Eastern European Jewish wedding dance sherele, with traditions from classical Jewish sources. [1]
Jewish culture covers many aspects, including religion and worldviews, literature, media, and cinema, art and architecture, cuisine and traditional dress, attitudes to gender, marriage, family, social customs and lifestyles, music and dance. [3] Some elements of Jewish culture come from within Judaism, others from the interaction of Jews with ...
Jewish customs of etiquette, known simply as Derekh Eretz (Hebrew: דרך ארץ, lit. ' way of the land '), [a] or what is a Hebrew idiom used to describe etiquette, is understood as the order and manner of conduct of man in the presence of other men; [1] [2] being a set of social norms drawn from the world of human interactions.
A sher or sherele [1] is a dance and musical form in Eastern European Jewish folk music, notably Klezmer music. The words mean "scissors" / "little scissors" respectively. Therefore sometimes it is called the scissors dance or little scissors dance. The sher is a set dance in 4/4 march-like tempo.
Klezmer (Yiddish: קלעזמער or כּלי־זמר) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. [1] The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for listening; these would have been played at weddings and other social functions.
A traditional oro playing in North Macedonia. Hora, also known as horo and oro, is a type of circle dance traditionally performed in Southeast Europe.Circle dances with similar names are found in Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, North Macedonia, Greece and culturally adopted by ethnic minorities such as the Ashkenazi Jews [1] (Yiddish: האָרע hore), Sephardic Jews (Ladino: הורו horo) and ...