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The Best of Jewish, Yiddish, Hebrew and Klezmer Music and Songs. The Most Beautiful album of Traditional Jewish music and Yiddish music. Israeli Music. Israe...
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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 ...
- Klezmer
- Holocaust Songs
- Ladino Romansas
- Ladino Cantigas
- Israeli Folk Music
- Yiddish Folk
The word “klezmer” has roots in both Yiddish and Hebrew, meaning “instrument of singing” or “tools of melody.” Klezmer’s primary influence is the Eastern European folk sounds it was surrounded by during its development. Sixteenth century klezmer musicians were often Jewish people working as traveling entertainers across and outside of Eastern Europ...
These songs drew on the musical repertoire of Holocaust victims to create songs of resistance, survival and emotional outlay. Jewish people drew on Yiddish folk music and Soviet sounds to sing about their experiences. They used this medium to talk about massacres, deportations to concentration camps and hope for an end to their suffering. Perhaps u...
Ladinois a mix of Old Spanish with Hebrew and other regional languages from places with Sephardic Jewish communities. This community has their very own genre of ballads called romansas. Like European ballads, they are formally structured narrative poems set to music. Jews sung these romansas while doing household chores, soothing young children and...
Unlike the story-based romansas, cantigas operate on an individual level. They portray feelings like love, yearning and homesickness. Cantigas are noted for their dynamism; they have no prescribed structure, allowing one to incorporate other cultural elements, parts of different languages, and things from different genres into them. For example, pa...
Let’s start with a not very popular genre: paraliturgical songs or piyyut. These are Hebrew poems sourced from biblical texts and religious sources, sung and set to music. These are ripe for adaptation to a whole host of different sounds and genres, as I discovered when chasing the song “Ve-David Yafeh Einayim”through time and across genres. This j...
Though closely linked with klezmer due to its Eastern European origins, Yiddish folk is defined by use of Yiddish language. These folk songs are largely sung solo, without musical accompaniment. Common topics include historical events, Jewish life and everyday living as Jewish women. The 19th century brought industrialization and increased class st...
Jewish Music and Songs (The Best of Traditional) Album • 2014. 25 songs • 1 hour, 11 minutes. 1. Yerushalayim Shel Zahav. 55K plays. 2:56. 2. Bei Mir Bist Du Schön.
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Although klezmer music emerged from a larger Eastern European Jewish musical culture that included Jewish cantorial music, Hasidic Niguns, and later Yiddish theatre music, it also borrowed from the surrounding folk musics of Central and Eastern Europe and from cosmopolitan European musical forms.
The rise of North American Jewish folk music, blending the sounds of the American folk music tradition with Jewish lyrics — often based on Jewish texts — is an example of such a phenomenon. In addition, the revival of klezmer music in recent years reflects American Jewry’s largely Eastern European roots and the endeavors of young musicians to reconnect with the cultures and traditions of ...
