User:Khane Rokhl Barazani

= In brief =

= In detail = I'm an American-Canadian Ashkenazi Jew in my thirties. I edit whatever and wherever I please, and take pleasure in making improvements to poorly-written or poorly-cited stubs, start-class, and C-class articles. Overall, I am most interested in topics in Jewish Studies, anthropology, social history, and ethnomusicology. (See below for more details about my interests, and pages I've created or those where I've made substantial edits.)

My username is an homage to, and an attempt to honour, Khane Rokhl Verbermakher and Asenath Barazani, two icons of Jewish scholarship and luminaries among Jewish women.

Judaism and Jewish material culture

 * Halakhah, especially in relation to women's issues
 * Nuschaot, hazzanut, and other musical/liturgical topics
 * Art and crafts (e.g. calligraphy, papercutting, hiddur mitzvah and ritual objects)
 * Food (e.g., the history of Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine)
 * History of dress, including but not limited to religious clothing; I'm much more interested in the quotidian and especially in women's clothing

Comparative ethnolinguistics

 * Language isolates
 * Linguistic syncretism (Yiddish, Djudeo-Espanyol) and languages situated on a linguistic continuum (Western and Eastern Romance dialect continua)

Ethnomusicology

 * Georgian and Balkan folk polyphony
 * Klezmer
 * Turkish and Iranian classical music
 * Sacred Harp music

Food history and culture

 * Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine
 * East European, Caucasian, and South West Asian/North African foodways

Paleolithic, neolithic and other ancient societies

 * Skara Brae
 * Jōmon period
 * Reconstructions of the remains of ancient people. I'm a big fan of Élisabeth Daynès.

Pages I've created

 * Larry Gordon (musician)
 * Morgan Asoyuf
 * Vaybertaytsh
 * FrancisGotHeat

Major contributions

 * Prisoner of Zion
 * Agunah
 * Jewish religious clothing
 * Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur