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1. Stepping Across the Divide: Hasidic Music in Today's Yiddish Canon.

Author

Wood, Abigail

Subjects
*HASIDISM, *NIGUNIM, *JEWISH music, *JEWISH sects, *MUSIC & race, EUROPEAN music
Abstract

The article discusses the differences on musical traditions in the Hasidic neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York. Hasidic music is rooted in the musical aesthetics of Jewish Eastern Europe. Music is a special significance in Hasidism, as part of their form of communication with God (Nigunim). Differences were due to traditional evolutions on each sect and developments of other substantial communities within the cities of America, Israel, and Europe.

Published
2007
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2. Plans for a Public School Upset Brooklyn Hasidim.

Author

Gootman, Elissa

Subjects
*PUBLIC schools, *JEWISH sects, *SCHOOL buildings
Abstract

The article reports that the decision of the Department of Education to open a new small secondary school inside the Montauk Intermediate School, which is a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood, has angered the Hasidic leaders at Borough Park in Brooklyn, New York.

Published
2006

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