Ethnogenesis and the Interrelationship of Musical Repertoires Among the Jews of Eastern Europe
Journal: Shofar
Year: 2022

I will attempt to integrate my remarks about the musical creativity of the East Ashkenazim in response to recent historical paradigms about the Jewish people worldwide. The key concept is the distinction between the many numerically small and geographically local "embedded" Jewish communities, as opposed to the much larger and geographically widespread Jewish cultures, which can be defined as "transnational. " Since the later sixteenth century only two such transnational Jewish cultures existed