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  2. New Synagogue (Düsseldorf) - Wikipedia

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    c. 1900 (as a congregation) Completed. 1958. Materials. Concrete. Website. jgdus.de (in German) [1] The New Synagogue (German: Leo Baeck Saal) is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, located at Zietenstraße 50, in Düsseldorf, in the Golzheim district of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

  3. Jews as the chosen people - Wikipedia

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    Jewish tradition is clear that there were interactions of non-Jewish prophets with God which are not recounted in the Torah. Based on these statements and stories, some rabbis theorized that, in the words of Natan'el al-Fayyumi, a Yemenite Jewish theologian of the 12th century, "God permitted to some people that which he forbade to others ...

  4. History of the Jews in Germany - Wikipedia

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    e. The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321 CE, [ 2 ][ 3 ] and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages (circa 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jewish community. The community survived under Charlemagne, but suffered during the Crusades.

  5. Jewish music - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Jewish music is the music and melodies of the Jewish people. There exist both traditions of religious music, as sung at the synagogue and in domestic prayers, and of secular music, such as klezmer. While some elements of Jewish music may originate in biblical times (Biblical music), differences of rhythm and sound can be found among later ...

  6. Religious Jewish music - Wikipedia

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    Nigun. Nigun refers to religious songs and tunes that are sung by groups. It is a form of voice instrumental music, often without any lyrics or words, although sounds like “bim-bim-bam” or “Ai-ai-ai!” are often used. Sometimes, Bible verses or quotes from other classical Jewish texts are sung repetitively in the form of a nigun.

  7. Secular Jewish music - Wikipedia

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    Klezmer. Around the 15th century, a tradition of secular (non-liturgical) Jewish music was developed by musicians called kleyzmorim or kleyzmerim by Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe. They draw on devotional traditions extending back into Biblical times, and their musical legacy of klezmer continues to evolve today.

  8. Jewish culture - Wikipedia

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    Jewish culture is the culture of the Jewish people, [ 1 ] from its formation in ancient times until the current age. Judaism itself is not simply a faith-based religion, but an orthoprax and ethnoreligion, pertaining to deed, practice, and identity. [ 2 ] Jewish culture covers many aspects, including religion and worldviews, literature, media ...

  9. Das Judenthum in der Musik - Wikipedia

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    Title page of the second edition of Das Judenthum in der Musik, published in 1869 "Das Judenthum in der Musik" (German for Judaism in Music, but perhaps more accurately understood in contemporary language as Jewishness in Music), [1] is an antisemitic essay by composer Richard Wagner which criticizes the influence of Jews and their "essence" on European art music, arguing that they have not ...