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Religious Jewish Music in the 20th century has spanned the gamut from Shlomo Carlebach's nigunim to Debbie Friedman's Jewish feminist folk, to the many sounds of Daniel Ben Shalom. Velvel Pasternak has spent much of the late 20th century acting as a preservationist and committing what had been a strongly oral tradition to paper.
Within the traditional Jewish community, cantoral and chasiddic melodies were the musical standard.. In the 1950s and early 1960s recordings began to be made of non-cantorial Jewish music, beginning with Ben Zion Shenker's recording of the music of the Modzitz chassidic sect [2] and Cantor David Werdyger's Gerrer recordings.
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 .
Yossi Green (b. 1955), Hasidic Jewish composer of contemporary Jewish religious music [10] Judd Greenstein (b. 1979) composer, often associated with the Indie Classical movement. Michael Isaacson (b. 1946) composer of Jewish synagogue music. Bronisław Kaper (1902–1983), naturalized American film score composer of Polish-Jewish origin.
An early influence on Orthodox pop was the 1971 album Or Chodosh, the debut of an eponymous group created by Sh'or Yoshuv roommates Rabbi Shmuel Brazil, who would later create the group Regesh, and Yossi Toiv, later known as Country Yossi; the group performed at Brooklyn College with David Werdyger's son, the young Mordechai Ben David, opening for them.
Films about Jewish-American organized crime (23 P) Films about Orthodox and Hasidic Jews (1 C, 87 P) Y. Yiddish-language films (2 C, 65 P)
The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies: A Critic's Ranking of the Very Best was a 1998 book published by Kathryn Bernheimer. Bernheimer ranked the "top 50" films dealing with Jewish topics. [ 1 ]
[2] [3] In the mid-1990s, as he became more religious, he changed his name from Gilad Kardunos to Yosef Karduner. [ 5 ] During one session of secluded prayer (" hitbodedut "), he created the tune for Shir LaMaalot (" Song to the Ascents "— Psalm 121 ), and one of his teachers urged him to resume his music career, this time in a vein related ...