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Jewish American Heritage Month - May

Jewish Music - An Overview

 

Jewish Music is typified by cultural diversity and draws upon the resources of the many cultures in which Jewish people have lived. The uniqueness of Jewish Music is to be found in the way Jewish musicians have integrated outer influences and new ideas into their traditional framework. Thus Jewish Music is innovative, vibrant, adaptive, and many-sided, and yet rests upon a firm foundation of shared religious and communal experience.

The article below provides an extensive overview of  the different types of Jewish music

Jewish Music: An Overview

Scroll down and listen to a sample of teo different types of Jewish Music:  The Eastern European Klezmer Music  as well as the Sephardic Ladino Music. Additional samples can be found on Youtube.