Medieval Jewish Songs: 20 Minute Compilation

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[@ImperialStreak]

A lot of the music here, which are a mixture of Ashkenazi and Sephardic musics, remind me a lot of Ottoman Turkish music and tunes. Ashkenazi music originated in Romania and received considerable Ottoman influence due to Ottoman rule over the region back then, that is why despite using violins, accordions and clarinets, the tune and melody is very much Ottoman (which is an amalgamation of Byzantine, Persian and Turkic) in style. Sephardic music is indistinguishable from Ottoman music and this music started in Spain but spread to North Africa and Turkey, that is why the instruments used here are the oriental "Middle Eastern" instruments, and also the tune and melody of Sephardic music is pretty much very Ottoman in style due to Ottoman (and previously Byzantine and Roman) influence over North Africa, Balkans and Anatolia like Ashkenazi music but Sephardic sounds more Middle Eastern while Ashkenazi music sounds more Romanian, Balkan and Greek. However, both Ashkenazi and Sephardic musics are definitely Ottoman in style.

[@KrystieGhaemi]

J'y entend surtout une intonation klesmer donc typique Askenaze par rapport à la musique séfarade que je ne reconnais pas vraiment dans ce que je viens d'entendre, mais peut importe c'est magnifique!! Et puis vous avez une forte connaissance musicale sur le médiéval jewish song..merci pour ce que j'aurai ignoré si vous n'aviez pas fait une si belle description de l'origine du klesmer 😊

[@nicolesawyer-jm6ir]

Fantastic !!!! Shalom May we all be bridges of love, care. And joy. Celebrate life together Amen Asheem

[@estherj5038]

I love it! ❤ thank God He led me to finding this music on KZbin. The first melody was a perfect music for one of the scenes of a play we recently did at church.

[@kathiemott3988]

Calming, gives comfort, yet full of life! All are beautiful. I have danced to Have Nagila many times through the years, and still do at almost 70. Thank you for all the research and effort putting this together. Well worth finding and listening to. :)

[@kafkaesqueambivalentreviva3206]

Thank you so much!

[@taniarachel5663]

Shalom. Shalom. Shalom. Shalom. Shalom. ❤

[@tenecat3072]

C'est tellement bien dit, cette beauté et cette tendre mélancolie, tout en gardant fermement la volonté d'avancer, et cela à travers tout, et malgré tout. oui , c'est beau , c'est fort. magnifique musique qui me pénètre l'âme et le coeur! Toda!

[@Baruch-q4n]

Dear Markus blessings upon you and those you love.From Baruch an old greek jew who now lives in London,England.Shalom aliechem !

[@Yossiloveu]

Chag sameach Chanukah 5785❤

[@zeportella1321]

Beautiful! Shalom from Mooca, São Paulo, Brasil!!!

[@marjoriehazim3667]

This music feeds the soul.

[@hank1519]

So expressive! Thank you!

[@kafkaesqueambivalentreviva3206]

So true! Happy to see you enjoyed it!

[@redmatters9318]

Slendid. Very moving. Shalom from Australia 🇦🇺. l 🇮🇱 .

[@daryooshbozorg7685]

Beautiful music!

[@josemanuelgarcia6024]

From Spain, thank you Soldiers of Israel...! Thank you Citizens of Israel...! Thank you, Jewish People...! God bless you...! God bless Israel...!

[@ricardofolive]

Amazing. Beautiful songs!

[@theodoremikellguerrant4918]

Beautiful, well-played, charming!

[@susanadiasjohnson457]

"Wonderful wonderful wonderful!!" --- Lawrence Welk

[@JoseSanchez-io3gh]

Thank you for sharing this treasure

[@annagreen1053]

Beautiful and Shalom❤😊

[@michaelmadrid6046]

Wow it reminds me when i went to israel for the first time, it makes me feel like i am back home AM ISRAEL CHAI TODÁH RABÁH HASHEM ADONAI

[@havas9184]

So when are you coming back HOME?!

[@koonaguero7569]

the first song starts with an accordion and a clarinet. boy did they know how to jamm in the middle ages!

[@libertyann439]

Soulful and expressive.

[@romeoandsusandial5340]

Beautiful music relaxing 🙏🙏❤️💕❤️🙏🙏

[@agapecorinthians113]

Wonderful,thank you!🎉

[@heidihochrein7912]

Clarinet makes this modern.

[@taniarachel5663]

Music beautiful❤💕💕💕

[@nathalie9678]

❤ beautiful music. thanks

[@deanronson6331]

Little-known fact: This is a reconstruction of Jewish Top of the Pops from the 14th c. But seriously, Jews came to the Balkans in the 15th c. and influenced the local folk music along with the Ottoman Turks and Gypsies.

[@markusberroth3078]

May God bless Israel and the Jewish people!

[@francisfreyre]

It is beautiful music and that is what matters. Of course in a song I happen to hear kind of an irish tone, but that does not mean that you can get an idea of what medieval jewish music could have been at medieval times. Thank you for the video!

[@marcpelta4055]

It's amazing!!

[@thayaramartins]

Lindo ❤ Gistei muito! I liked very much 🇧🇷

[@veersingh2730]

Hi Salum I like its 👌👍👍👍❤️

[@tenecat3072]

Klezmer je t'aime

[@yl5020]

Beautiful💟🕎

[@z94720]

БРАВО!

[@Janeiro-c6l]

...???...BRAVO...!!!...

[@RENANRECKZIEGEL]

Magic!

[@RJ-ql6ff]

Klezmir is based on original ghetto music. Its great!

[@woodswalker88]

i love this music & want to learn it on my fiddle. I can learn the tunes by ear, I just want to know the names the songs.

[@kafkaesqueambivalentreviva3206]

Hi Laura, here is the list of songs used: 1. Beym Rebin's Sude 2. Quando El Rey Nimrod 3. Xosid For String Quartet 4. Amen Shem Nora/Yehalelu Shemo 5. Freylekhs 6. Heidelburger Judentanz 7. Prayer For String Quartet 8. In the Ghetto 9. Hava Nagila We're thrilled to hear that you're enjoying it and want to learn it on your fiddle. Learning music by ear is a fantastic skill to have, and we're sure you'll do a great job!

[@fennecabumukallalabdulmasi3867]

Shalom Laura, in case you understand Yiddish or southern German dialects, you may also like to "fideln" songs from after the times of the black death, although there are polish words mixed in it. Try to google such words as "Oif'n pripyetshik Brent a faierl", that's a song to encourage kids in learning the AlephBeyth, as in the Shtetels they started teaching their kids to learn to read and write beginning at the age of 4 already, the kids often needed positive comfort and spiritual reinforcement for their minds not to give up. BTW, giving up to learn Hebrew and Yiddish was of course an absolute no go cuz outside of Eretz Yisrael, e. g. growing up in a french, german or polish speaking surrounding you got to learn Hebrew in a Yeshivah first before the society forces you to learn the official language in school, otherwise you highly risk to end up fully assimilated before you even reach the age to get married and how do you wanna pass your language to your kids if you haven't learnt it yourself? See the implications in such verses like "kennt ir in di oysyes trest shepn" ... But apart of all human learning it's HaShem who keeps an eye on his people so they don't stop learning Hebrew and reading the Thanakh. Baroukh Ha ba bé Shem AdoShem ! 😊

[@stephenfisher3721]

​@@fennecabumukallalabdulmasi3867 In the shtetl, the melamed was low in status and often frustrated with his life. Teaching methods were primitive and corporeal punishment was often used. Yiddish was the spoken language of the home. In cheder they learned Hebrew for prayers. Most of the immigrants who came to America from 1880 until 1924 were not the most religious nor educated. It was common to be a fast fluent davener but without the understanding of the Hebrew words. To go beyond the cheder to the yeshiva was reserved for the select few - intellectually gifted or sons of the wealthy.

[@behroozhakimian9868]

Long live the Jewish people 🇮🇱 !!!

[@zhillaburns1160]

Beautiful

[@hugosadyayalaayala3470]

complete the back ground portrait image. thank You.

[@ЛюдмилаСтариченко-т2ш]

Я слышу клезмер. Вполне современная музыка. Мне это нравится, но в тему я зашел немного за другой музыкой.

[@mineraidefer]

True ?

[@clarawainberg7777]

Adorei, maravilhoso

[@imisstoronto3121]

Morenika wouldhave been a good addition, or A La Una Yo Naci

[@Baruch-q4n]

If the rest are to go by this first this is not medival jewish.I am jewish and know these from my grandparents time 1890s and we older jews nowadays are very familiar with these familiar tunes.And we know the words to them.

[@Yossiloveu]

Listening on 4th night 🕎🫶Chag sameach Chanukah🍩kislev 5785💋

[@AntonioRodriguez-uq2og]

Que recuerdo de mis antepasados sefarditas❤

[@orquideasmexicanasyotraspl6599]

esa musica tiene que ver con Sefarad lo que un ornitorrinco a un chimpance

[@YisraelShalom]

​@@orquideasmexicanasyotraspl6599deja de destilar odio, el se refiere a los sefarditas (Judios de España)

[@karolinailic2868]

❤❤❤

[@mortenchristensen9985]

I like This even it is not medieval

[@stephenfisher3721]

Oy vey! My grandparents told me they were from the OLD country but I didn't realize it was that OLD. (Was their ship a time travel machine?)

[@nieblanoir]

¿ Tienes alguna idea de lo que pasaba en El Reino de León en esa “ edad “ ? ¿ Quien ha decidido que es media ? ¿ Que edad tiene la de hoy ?

[@alexandradeuen1610]

Der soulfood für die ohren .gebackene bohnen auf sound .

[@nunyabiznes7446]

List of songs used? ... I kinda wanna figure out how to play some of these

[@kafkaesqueambivalentreviva3206]

1. Beym Rebin's Sude 2. Quando El Rey Nimrod 3. Xosid For String Quartet 4. Amen Shem Nora/Yehalelu Shemo 5. Freylekhs 6. Heidelburger Judentanz 7. Prayer For String Quartet 8. In the Ghetto 9. Hava Nagila

[@nunyabiznes7446]

@@kafkaesqueambivalentreviva3206 tyty

[@miriam8026]

@@kafkaesqueambivalentreviva3206 Thank you so much! I was trying to figure out the names of these songs as well!

[@charlesvire7517]

Yallah 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@bernardopatino6263]

Shabbat Shalom. I love. only Elohim YHWH.

[@TheDevouchka]

Not medieval at all but wonderful.

[@Alboa97]

Similar to ottoman Turkish melodies 😊

[@harrylime8077]

Where is the guy with a fiddle dancing in the rooftops??

[@carolfreeman9773]

Would be curious to know what documentation you have that enables you to call this medieval?

[@RJ-ql6ff]

No documentation, just passed down over the centuries, like the Bible.

[@carolfreeman9773]

@@RJ-ql6ff Just what I thought. Ever hear of truth in advertising?....

[@JeremyMcGuire-mq3ye]

Jesus Christ lineage Good names Grace and Freedom and honor are easily given to lineage joyfully

[@generator6946]

Klezmer?

[@Zioni47]

So beautiful sephardic and klezmer music. So nice if you're reading to Benjamin of Tudela or Isaac Bashevis Singer.

[@ultimatedark5969]

It's not sephardic

[@Zioni47]

Most of songs are not sefaradim.

[@danilorainone406]

sounds 19th cent wedding stompers

[@alexandradeuen1610]

20 vorladungen im monat .normal im schetl .

[@petervdveenmuis]

❤

[@Morenomarromchocolate]

I am berber jews were berbers and black skin dark brown skin overall the sefardic. Shalom

[@OzgurNevres]

Beautiful Klezmer music. Definitely not medieval, though.

[@silvierousso3995]

Nice Entertainment! All though seems that the tunes take a lot from Western Yiddish Traditional

[@ArkadiBolschek]

Beautiful music 😊 If you could replace the gross pictures with something that isn't AI generated, the video would be just perfect.

[@sophiafakevirus]

Hey Jude, take a sad song and make it better

[@DarthPreamp]

This is an excellent collection! Thanks❤ However, you should use the original version of Hava Nagila kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGavanp4mZiYmbM

[@deanfeldman2505]

Nice but medieval?

[@Machabeus]

LOVE ISRAEL

[@bogdan98ify]

Hasidism arose in the eighteenth century, Hava Nagila was written in 1918. This is not Medieval Jewish music.

[@make268]

nothing to do with the medieval.

[@borisdavidov1608]

Как когда-то сказали бы в Одессе, вам всучили куклу. В смысле сверху и снизу купюры в середине резаная нотная тетрадь. Первая и последняя мелодии конечно еврейские, посередине не очень)))

[@benbox2064]

Ashkenazi music is good, Sephardic music is too oriental for my taste, I don't like Arabic music, Ashkenazi Jewish music is not oriental, it's another culture linked to Central Europe

[@mitchymasar9549]

Ashkenazim Music has influences from The Orient. I can't imagine not seeing that. Sure, it's Central European, but also Eastern European and Levantine. Ashkenazim can genetically trace their roots (at least paternally) to ancient Israel. They exist and have existed in the Balkans, Siberia, and surrounding nations, etc. Every influence was reflected in their music.

[@benbox2064]

@@mitchymasar9549 Hello dear sir, I am a former musician and I have done personal research in musicology, I myself am Ashkenazi. In Ashkenazi music and culture in general there is no cultural link (not even residual) with the Middle East, it is a fantasy that stems from nationalism linked to Zionism. To stay only in the musical field, the only traces of Jewish music linked to the Middle East is liturgical and prior to the appearance of oriental music of the Arab type, in popular Ashkenazi folklore almost all of the musical components are linked to music. popular Slavic with a Romanian influence, or more precisely Turkish or Balkan, Gypsy, Polish, Italian and French, technically speaking the music closest to Ashkenazi music is the music of Russia/Ukraine, it is based on a comparative study that I read. It's similar for gypsies, there is no unified gypsy music. If you go to Hungary, the Magyars, a people who arrived in Europe after the Jews, they too have no cultural connection with the region of Asia from which they came. Jew is not a nationality or a culture, it is an ethno-religious religion, that is to say a specificity, the Jewish world is not part of the notion of nation-state but in a metaphysical perception and messianic existence. We do not have an Israeli national culture inherited from 2200 years ago, for my parents and grandparents born in Poland, Israeli and Eastern culture are totally unknown to them, we form several national cultures with a Jewish character but consubstantially linked to the non-Jewish cultures of Europe. The same goes for food, if you want to eat Ashkenazi just walk into any Polish or Ukrainian grocery store to find it, and certainly not a grocery store in Beirut or Damascus.

[@mitchymasar9549]

@@benbox2064 I said nothing Zionist nor about nationality. I really try to err on the side of support for all ethnicities and religions, including Palestinians, Jewish People, Slavs, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists etc. However, because you have identified yourself as a music scholar and an actual Jewish person, I'll respectfully take your word on most of what you said as it's ultimately someone else's business than mine. I'm more or less a fat guy who's into history as a hobby. I hear eastern elements in some Ashkenazi music. Yet I also here it in some Hungarian and even believe it or not Slovak music. So yeah.

[@benbox2064]

@@mitchymasar9549 Hello, thank you for your remark, the oriental elements in Ashkenazic music are not related to the Middle East, you find oriental elements even in Polish, Czech, Slovak, Romanian Ukrainian and Bulgarian music, I will not give you too much links, but here is an example of Bulgarian music kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6KliXh5qMqamZo the musically most eastern Slavic country. Moreover, a connoisseur immediately recognizes the difference between an Arabic, Bulgarian, Greek or Turkish oriental scale, those that exist in Ashkenazi music do not come from the Middle East. Ashkenazi dances also come from Eastern Europe, a simple example with this Romanian dance, Hora, kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2S9kpiGgNuAnNU in Israel there is a lot of hora music imported from Central Europe, a region where Jews have lived almost 2 millennia

[@orquideasmexicanasyotraspl6599]

Hi, can you tell me where are you from? And can you define "oriental"?

[@luispatricio3884]

Medieval? I don’t think so

[@Tapajara]

Amazing how much of it sounds Arabian or Egyptian. Makes me think of ancient times. Jewish music, based so much on minor chords, can be quite gloomy. Being American, I prefer much more cheery music. Even though some of our music is based on minor keys, it is still much more exhilarating such as Nashville Blues: . The skill needed to do this kind of music is much more impressive to me.

[@annasyvasalmi4085]

Medieval for sure not

[@rafaaholic]

?

[@simonidastankovic2627]

Excuse me.....but this has nothing to do with any Medieval Music what so ever, let alone Jewish Medieval Music (which as such and under 5hat name of the genre, had never existed, due to simple fact that Jews had only started to settle throughout Europe much, much later, except for the Andaluz (Safardic Jews)...in ea4ly Medieval Spain under the rule of the Maures.

[@MrEVAQ]

There have been Jews in Europe for more than 2,000 years.

[@Baruch-q4n]

Simon. Shalom aliechem ! There were medieval jewish kehillahs all over western Europe including here I'm England.Where I live is London.Even in parts of what later returned to be Greece where I originally come from were kehillahs as we say Kahallot.My family were sephardi refugees to there when it came under Ottoman rule.But the early settled jews were and are still called romanioti jews.Kol tov ! From Baruch Ben-David in London.

[@azamatmadrahimov9123]

🤢

[@azamatmadrahimov9123]

@@user-ju9zz3ls3r 🤮תודה, לקחתי את זה בקלות😂

[@Jewish_Israeli_Zionist]

@@user-ju9zz3ls3r הוא ערבי

[@SilesianBrethren]

This is not medieval

[@AndreasHelberg]

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[@paolagallus-xf9ly]

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