To understand the music of a country is to understand the culture. Experts agree that music is one of the best language-acquisition tools, but even if you don’t know the lyrics you can still get a sense of the wide variations in styles and cultural avenues that exist here in Israel, just by rocking out […]
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In the early 1930 s, visionary Cantor Reuven Rinder of San Francisco ‘s Temple Emanuel raised $ 10,000 to commission the world acclaimed composer, Ernest Bloch to write a setting with the Reform Jewish Sabbath Morning Prayer book of the `1930s. Bloch was already an acclaimed composer of many major works plus those with Jewish […]
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Early in the 1980s, a pop legend in a mid-life lull reached back into ancient history for inspiration. The song did not come easy. Banging his head in frustration on a hotel-room floor, Leonard Cohenground out about 80 stanzas before finally achieving the perfect anthem that is “Hallelujah”. And no one got it. CBS Records […]
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Though not necessarily written for worship, neo-Hasidic melodies quickly found their way into the synagogue. Shlomo Carlebach (1925-1994) was among the most unorthodox Orthodox rabbis of the 20th century. With a unique personality reflecting the full fervor of his adopted Hasidic background as well as a genuine love for his fellow Jew, Carlebach traveled North […]
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Music has been a part of Jewish life since biblical times, and remains integral to the Jewish religious and cultural experiences. usic has been a part of Jewish life since biblical times, and remains integral to the Jewish religious and cultural experiences. At the moment of Israel’s birth as a nation — the Exodus from Egypt — the Bible tells us that Moses led […]
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די טעג פֿאַלט אויס דער 75סטער יאָרצײַט פֿונעם גרויסן ייִדישן פּאָעט מרדכי געבירטיג ז׳׳ל, וועלכער איז דעם 4טן יוני 1942 אומגעקומען אין דער קראָקאָווער געטאָ. אַ לעגענדאַרע פּערזענלעכקייט אין דער וועלט פֿון ייִדישער מוזיק בעת זײַן לעבן, איז ער אין דער זעלביקער צײַט געווען אַ פּשוטער סטאָליער, וואָס האָט אין זײַן פֿרײַער צײַט געשריבן לידער […]
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Judy Frankel (1943-2008) Hanuka Lyrics: Mos viene la fiesta de la hanukía A todos mozos hinche de alegría. La mujer nunca manca de su taría Porqué a ella encombe hanukía. Los Hasmonayim en este luzio día Mostraron sus tan grande baraganía, Y siempre de ellos mos acodraremos Y al Dio grande siempre bendizeremos. Que plazer […]
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Happy Hanukkah!! Did you know that “I Have a Little Dreidel” was written in Yiddish too?! Potentially as the original version! This rendition of “Ikh Bin a Kleyner Dreydl” is performed by Dylan Seders Hoffman, Dani Apple, and Lorin Zackular (former off-Broadway castmates from the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s “The Sorceress”). Direction/editing by Dylan Seders […]
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A song from the 1982 Yiddish Israeli film.
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