"Series about indigenous music genres of Europe looks at klezmer, the Yiddish good-time music from the schtetl of old Eastern Europe which was virtually extinguished in the Holocaust, but has now made a comeback in Germany of all places. An episode of the BBC's European Root's show. " Violinist Itzhak Perlman explores his personal affection for traditional Jewish music, ranging from Yiddish lullabies to klezmer wedding songs to classical violin solos based on Jewish themes." YouTube clip. "A TICKLE IN THE HEART is a touching and lively travelogue starring erstwhile klezmer giants the Epstein Brothers (Willie, Julie, and Max), who come out from retirement in Florida to hit the road on their big comeback tour." Here's a clip.
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The movie on Amazon.Ī Tickle in the Heart.1996. "This documentary closely interviews the lively and charming Leopold Kozlowski, a klezmer musician and composer who survived the Nazi's concentration camps and managed to get on with his life and his vocation" Here's a clip of the film. "An examination of the Jewish culture that thrives in 21st-century Poland despite the absence of a large Jewish population" Here's a NY Times review and an interview with Alex Jacobowitz who appears in the film. "A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden was the first film to document the klezmer revival, tracing the efforts of two founding groups, Kapelye and Boston's Klezmer Conservatory Band, to recover the lost history of klezmer music." Check out for more info and the a video of the first 26 minutes of the film. Let me know what I've missed.Ī Jumpin night at the garden of Eden. I don't have a complete list, not even close, but here's a fun start. There have been a lot of documentaries with significant Jewish music hooks. Instead, here's a much more fitting testimony, from YouTube user sweetandsourgal3. I'd thought to share a favorite Friedman video but I'll skip that. This past Shabbat, my synagogue and countless others sang Friedman's "Mi Shebeirach," hoping for her healing. She carved out a space not just for a woman's participation in Jewish prayer, but created a body of work that placed woman's experience, in both Torah and contemporary life, as central to the prayer experience. She was pivotal in the translation of the Reform camp liturgy into a synagogue form and in the defining of the 'songleader' cantorial style.
She's possibly overshadowed only by Shlomo Carlebach as the most important Jewish liturgical composer of the 20th century. In the year 2011, with her revolution well won and her signature sound anchored so deeply in a time past (1970's and 80's folk pop), it's easy to forget how radical a presence she was.
Friedman was singer, musician and a songwriter who made an indelible imprint on liberal, particularly Reform, Jewish liturgy. The word went out last night, Debbie Friedman is dead. The quote is borrowed from Joshua Jacobson's excellent essay "The Very Expression of my Soul": Ernest Bloch and the Sacred Service. It is really strange that all this comes out slowly, this impulse that has chosen me, who all my life have been a stranger to all that is Jewish" All my musical Bible shall come, and I would let sing in me these secular chants where will vibrate all the Jewish soul… I think that I shall write one day songs to be sung at the synagogue in part by the minister, in part by the faithful. I do not search to produce a form, I am producing nothing so far, but I feel that the hour will come… There will be Jewish rhapsodies for orchestra, Jewish poems, dances mainly, poems for voices for which I have not the words, but I would wish them Hebraic. "I notice here and there themes that are without my willing it, for the greater part Jewish, and which begin to make themselves precise and indicate the instinctive and also conscious direction in which I am going. Later in life this changed.here's Bloch's manifesto, written in 1911 in a letter to letter to his friend poet and historian Edmond Fleg. While growing up in the 1880's in anactively Jewish home, he was more focused on music than region. Bloch is arguably the greatest composer of Jewish art music in the 20th century.