#mizrahi music

[dizajn]

A-WA - "Hana Mash Hu Al Yaman" (Official Video)

#youtube #music #music marketing #music monday #yaman #israel #israel music festival #oriental #oriental music #middle east #yemenite jews #arabs #Yemenite #Teimanim #mizrahi jews #mizrahi #mizrahi music

[unbidden-yidden]

Jewish Song of the Day #56: Adon Olam

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Guys guys guys you have no idea how excited I am about the fact that this album is now out!!!

I first saw this teaser at the beginning of March and was so stoked that it would be coming out soon and now it's HERE!

About Kedmah:

Kedmah is an ensemble of musicians and prayer leaders excavating the power and beauty of Mizrahi Jewish expression through ancient poetry and song. Their debut album, Simu Lev, is currently in production, and this video of “Adon Olam” is the first glimpse of the project.

Led by Rabbi Yosef Goldman and Yoni Avi Battat, Kedmah honors the artists’ Iraqi, Syrian, and Yemenite ancestry in conversation with their intersecting musical influences. Their interactive performances, workshops, and recordings allow listeners to experience the spiritual and emotional depth of Middle Eastern piyyut (liturgical poetry) and the ages-old tradition of Arab melodies that adorn them. Part educational initiative, part performance group, the social and pedagogical impact of this project is strengthened by a commitment to musical creativity, historical accuracy, spirituality, and public performance at the highest level.

I hope you enjoy — I know I am!!

Edit: it seems I jumped the gun, just a bit. They have a few songs out, but the full album comes out April 9th. Get excited!!

#jumblr #jewish music #Jewish Song of the Day #if you can't tell from the number of exclamation marks #I am so so excited to share this one #Mizrahi music done in a traditional egalitarian space? #SO here for it

[possible-streetwear]

#new york dolls #The Junkies #Arthur Kane #Billy Murcia #Brian Koonin #David Johansen #Earl Slick #Jerry Nolan #John Anthony Genzale #Jr. #Rick Rivets #Sami Takamäki #Steve Conte #Steven Duren #Sylvain Mizrahi #Tony Machine #johnny thunders #punkrock #glam rock #70s #70s music #seventies #70's #70s nostalgia #70s band #2008 #gig poster #gig posters #poster design #concert poster

[soloorganaas]

reading another book about the mista’arvim/musta’ribin this time about their heroic work spying for Israel before and during the 1948 war and i am once again fucking blown away by the ingenuity and bravery of Jews who managed to disguise themselves as the people who’d hated them as outcasts for centuries and returned to the places they’d escaped from all a Jewish state that wasn’t yet in existence and was at that point made up of people who saw them as second class and wanted to erase them of the very Arabness they were embracing to try and win their country’s freedom. i literally cannot fathom that level of manic devotion and determination. truly no one is doing it like mizrahim

#jumblr #jewish things #israel #im not mizrahi by heritage but by adoption #and i cannot imagine anything else #mizrahim are the source of israel’s best music and food and culture #and an essential part of its very existence #the fucking AUDACITY of the world outside to call israelis white colonists #and erase the existence of half its population #mizrahi-ness is woven into inherently into my jewish self and that of everyone who gave it to me #and i just #cannot believe mizrahim are simply not real to the bulk of the world and certainly the people talking about israel

[bantuotaku]

Going live on Tk Tok going live on Tik Tok in 20 mins for the @viniirevlon and Jack Mizrahi Gucci #alloweenpartyball2 catch it on Jackmizrahigucci on #tiktok

Source

#voguing #music #edm #house music #dance music #electronic music #instagram #vogue ballroom #vouge #ballroom culture #ballroom scene #ballroom #dancers #dancer #dance #Jack Mizrahi Gucci #Jack Mizrahi

[badarchitectrecords]

Check out this new music by Doron Mizrahi - Before 40!

#youtube #Doron Mizrahi #New Music #piano

[yourfriendthehedgehog]

#music #netanela mizrahi #guwanbal gurruwiwi #Youtube

[disgruntled-detectives]

I love you religious Jews

I love you secular Jews

I love you Ashkenazi Jews

I love you Sephardi Jews

I love you Mizrahi Jews

I love you angry Jews

I love you grieving Jews

I love you scared Jews

I love you optimistic Jews

I love you Jewish languages

I love you Jewish humor

I love you Jewish art

I love you Jewish music

I love you every single Jewish holiday

I love you Jewish folklore

I love you Jewish Jewish food

I love you Jews in Israel

I love you Jews in the diaspora

I love you born Jews

I love you Jewish converts

I love each and every one of you.

#jumblr #jewblr #judaism #Jewish

[scrumpster]

Jewish Resources (Assorted)

Since my last post seemed to be helpful to a lot of people, I thought I’d make another to share some additional resources. This list includes a bunch of stuff, meant for Jewish people in general. I would definitely encourage you to explore them! There’s a lot of useful stuff here. Goyim are welcome to reblog, just please be respectful if you’re adding tags or comments. Jewish Multiracial Network, an organization for multiracial Jewish families and Jews of Color Sefaria, a free virtual library of Jewish texts Sephardic Studies Digital Library Museum “The SSDC includes key books, archival documents, and audio recordings that illuminate the history, culture, literature, politics, customs, music, and cuisine of Sephardic Jews all expressed in their own language, Ladino.” (from their website) The SMQN, an organization for LGBTQ+ Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews Keshet, a group for LGBTQ+ Jews JQY, a group for LGBTQ+ Jews with a focus on those in Orthodox communities  Queer Jews of Color Resource List (note: this list is way more than just resources, there’s a LOT there) JQ International: “JQ celebrates the lives of LGBTQ+ Jews and their allies by transforming Jewish communities and ensuring inclusion through community building, educational programs, and support and wellness services, promoting the healthy integration of LGBTQ+ and Jewish identities.” (from their website) Jews of Color Initiative, an organization dedicated to teaching about intersectionality in the Jewish community, focuses on research, philanthropy, field building, and community education Nonbinary Hebrew Project: It’s hard to describe, but they’re working to find/create/add suffixes that represent nonbinary genders in Hebrew. If you speak Hebrew/another gendered language, you might know what I mean about gendered suffixes. Jewish Mysticism Reading List  (These are related to our closed practices, goyim should NOT be practicing these things) Ritualwell (you can find prayers and blessings related to specific things here, I personally like that they have blessings related to gender identity)  Guimel, an LGBTQ+ support group for the Jewish Community in Mexico. The site is in Spanish. I’m not a native speaker, but I was still able to read a little bit of it.  SVARA: “SVARA’s mission is to empower queer and trans people to expand Torah and tradition through the spiritual practice of Talmud study.” (From their website) TransTorah is definitely an older website, but there are still some miscellaneous pdfs and resources up on the “Resources” page. Jewish Disabilities Advocates: “The JFS Jewish Disabilities Advocates program was created to raise awareness and further inclusion of people with disabilities within Jewish organizations and the larger Jewish community.” (from their website) Jewish Food Society (recipes, have not spent a lot of time browsing here but maybe I should in the future) Jewish Blind & Disabled, an organization that operates mainly in providing accessible housing and living. Jewish Braille Institute International: “The JBI Library provides individuals who are blind, visually impaired, physically handicapped or reading disabled with books, magazines and special publications of Jewish and general interest in Audio, Large Print and Braille formats.” (from their website) Their services are free!)

#jumblr #jewish resources #jewish #lgbtq resources #disability resources #jews of color resources #jewish bipoc resources #judaism #jewblr #jewish community #sephardic #mizrahim #nonbinary jews #jews of color #lgbtq jews #trans jews #disabled jews #multiracial jews #sephardi jewish #sephardi #mizrahi jewish #mizrahim jewish #mizrahi

[jewishvitya]

A lot of things I hear and have a resistance to, I find hard to untangle and figure out. Is this Israeli propaganda I haven't unpacked yet, or is it that these people are applying a lens that doesn't fit the situation?

For example, the idea that Israeli music is appropriated when it sounds Middle Eastern, is it correct or is it because 60% of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi, coming from Arab countries, have a long history of making music like this? What did we appropriate and what did we bring with us? I don't know how to look into that, I don't understand music enough. Same with food, what's appropriated and what did people just bring with them? A lot of us never left the Middle East. So I don't know. I have no idea how to check which is which. I can point to the erasure of Palestinian culture as lending itself to appropriation, because it's real and it's insidious, but the rest I personally don't know how to pick apart.

But there's also something I hear more and more about how Israelis changed our names into Hebrew names to sound more indigenous. On one side of my family, the original name was Levi because of the tribe of Levi. It was changed to hide that we're Jewish and avoid violence in diaspora. Are people changing names because they finally feel free to have visibly Jewish names, or is it some attempt to obscure a history in diaspora? This isn't music, this is something I can look at a bit more easily.

I'm sure for many of us the freedom to go back to our roots is valuable. It's true that a lot of us had Hebrew names we used among ourselves, and "localized" names (not sure what else to call it) we used in official documentation etc. I'm named after my great great grandmother's Hebrew name that she had while living in France, and she never moved to Israel. I'm sure she would have loved the safety of using her name officially. So, of course, many people jumped on this opportunity. You give them the ability to register with a new name, and they use the name they had in the safety of their own community.

A Jewish person changing their name to Hebrew is often shedding a false identity they were forced to adopt.

But at the same time.

When Jewish refugees were brought here in early immigration waves, their names were changed often not by their choice. Leadership had a whole thing about imposing Hebrew names on people. I remember a story from history class, I don't remember which aliyah it was about, but we were told about people standing there and someone being like "All of you - your name is this. And this bunch - your name is that." There was a joke stereotype about Ethiopian Israelis having names that start with the letter alef because that's the first letter of the alphabet and their names were picked from an alphabetized list.

When my family members came to Israel, they kept their non-Hebrew surname, but they were given a list of Hebrew names to choose from. I think this was recently enough the they would have been able to say no to it, though. So they took their Hebrew names willingly.

I don't know if it's accurate to say the intention was to sound more indigenous. Because, at the time that this was mostly happening, the zionist movement was proudly colonialist. They separated between us and the Palestinians, placing the Palestinians as the indigenous population, as a way of placing us above them.

I think it was an attempt to homogenize Israeli society. To make it into something cohesive. Part of the melting pot. Another thing that was happening at the same time was all kinds of abuses to try to strip Jewish immigrants and refugees from their cultural and religious practices. Zionism had a very complicated and toxic relationship with Judaism, especially in those days. It had a goal of founding a state with Western enlightenment values, but for Jewish people. It relied on Judaism as an ethnicity for the definition of an in-group, and hated Judaism as a religion.

But about the names. I don't think it's to fake indigeniety. I think in some cases it's a genuine return to our own language now that we're comfortable, and in other cases, forced assimilation.

#riki babbles

[thatcaithness]

Imagining Ziva blasting some Israeli pop at home. Probably Mizrahi music, as in my headcanon she is at least partly Mizrahi.

Probably not from the David side, because, ehm, bubbe David. That´s Yiddish.

Like Sarit Hadad or A-WA.

#NCIS #tiva #ziva david #israeli music

[starburst2000]

A gift for @inklingm8 , @spacelazarwolf , @magnetothemagnificent , @atiredjew , @loki-god-of-mischief-13 , @trainqueen379 and @homochadensistm.

This is Schlep, the Israeli National Engine. He's based on a Staedler JT 42BW, and he's very strong, hard-working, brave, and caring about his passengers' safety during his trips from Haifa to Jerusalem.

Likes: Super spicy food, Mizrahi pop music (especially Ofra Haza), the sky at sunset.

Dislikes: When his service is interrupted by missile attacks, sandstorms, anyone who beats around the bush.

Schlep is the grandson of Rivka the Palestine Railways P Class, who was the Levantine National Champion back when Israel was still known as "British Mandate Palestine", until she was succeded by Ofir the EMD G12 in 1959.

#starlight express #stex #stex oc #schlep the israeli engine #my art #my oc #traditional art #jumblr #a small gift for Passover

[simplysiriuslyjoking]

Taxi stories in Israel

So the last month I had to take a few taxis back and forth from places. Since where I live is an arab neighbourhood, most of the taxi drivers are arabs.

Every single one of them cried with me about what happened on October 7th. Every single one told me they wish they could officially stand up and talk about how horrified they were, how they called their Jewish friends and some even bravely drove over to the party to save as many as they could while risking their lives, but they can't because they and their family will be murdered by their own people.

Imagine that your biggest fear isn't the Jews, it's your own friends who will murder you for standing with humanity.

Today, the taxi driver was a guy called Muhammad who apparently is my neighbour. He laughed with me about us living so close and he would have invited me over for coffee. Then he said:

"I was there, you know? At the party. I drove two girls from Tel Aviv, put some Mizrahi music for them to have fun in the taxi and waited for their call to pick them up the next day.

At 6 AM, I get a call from one of them. 'Don't come, they are murdering us. Don't come!!' I couldn't believe it. She, a jewish girl, was under attack and she was protecting me, a muslim arab? I turned around and drove straight into the party, Palestinians threw rocks and tried to gun me down. I picked them up and drove as fast as I could back to Tel Aviv, sirens from rockets all over the country blasting our ears."

"I have to ask. Why did you do it? Why risk yourself?" I asked him in awe and respect.

"What do you mean why? We are humans! This isn't about religion! It's about knowing to be a human being, no matter what cost."

Thank you, to all Israeli Arabs who support Israel. You brought back my hope for a better future.

Shabbat Shalom, may it be a quiet, safe and loving.

#israel #ישראבלר #טאמבלר ישראלי #terrorism #palestine #tumblr #free palestine #from hamas #israeli arabs #jews

[possible-streetwear]

#new york dolls #The Junkies #Arthur Kane #Billy Murcia #Brian Koonin #David Johansen #Earl Slick #Jerry Nolan #John Anthony Genzale #Jr. #Rick Rivets #Sami Takamäki #Steve Conte #Steven Duren #Sylvain Mizrahi #Tony Machine #johnny thunders #punkrock #glam rock #70s #70s music #seventies #70's #70s nostalgia #70s band #2008 #gig poster #gig posters #poster design #concert poster

[mihrsuri]

Inspired by @unbidden-yidden (I believe it was you) - Maureen Nehedar: she’s a Persian Jewish musician/singer and okay, I’m Mizrahi but I did not know that (long abuse related story) until my 20s and one thing I did was search for music and Maureen Nehedar just…spoke to my soul.

#jewish things #jewish biracial fairy princess me #Spotify

[icedsodapop]

Feeling a ton of frustration over the Broadway adaptation of The Band's Visit, becos while it's groundbreaking in it's depiction of Arab men and Arabic music on the American musical stage, I can't help but feel bitter on how the political context from it's source material has been watered down to make it a palatable message about human connection that transcends cultures for a predominantly wealthy and White audience that might skew conservative.

The movie was already political given its representation of Mizrahi Israeli Jews and this post goes into more detail about this and the emotional resonance of Dina, who is a Mizrahi Jewish woman played by a Morrocan Jewish actress, bonding with Tewfiq over Egyptian cinema. And here's an article about discrimination against the Mizrahi Jewish population in Israel:

#the band's visit #theatre #musicals