My Mizrachi (Iraqi mother, Egyptian father, brought up in Kobe) brother and I used to travel and we had, among many other things, the love for the music of the middle eastern lands in common..another inherited heritage.
This morning I came across a video of jewish religious music over the centuries. The fact that we can identify the songs of hundreds of years is a testament to our unity as a people.
Official Song List 0:04 Barchu (for the High Holidays) - Traditional 0:17 Cuando el Rey Nimrod - Traditional 0:25 Maoz Tzur - Traditional 0:35 Oyfn Pripetshik - M.M. Warshawsky 0:42 Hatikvah - Naftali Herz Imber 0:54 Shalom Aleichem - Israel Goldfarb 1:01 Hava Nagila - Abraham Zevi Idelsohn 1:08 Bei Mir Bistu Shein - The Andrews Sisters 1:20 Ani Ma'amin - Reb Azriel Dovid Fastag 1:31 Sharm El Sheikh - Ram Eliran 1:45 Am Yisrael Chai - Shlomo Carlebach 1:47 Oseh Shalom - Nurit Hirsch 2:02 Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (Jerusalem of Gold) - Naomi Shemer 2:20 If I Were A Rich Man - Fiddler on the Roof (Sheldon Harnick & Jerry Bock) 2:26 Hafachta - The Diaspora Yeshiva Band 2:32 Kol Ha'Olam Kulo - Rabbi Baruch Chait 2:40 Adon Olam - Uzi Hitman 2:46 Baruch HaGever - Lev Tahor 2:50 Shehecheyanu - Debbie Friedman 2:59 Minyan Man - Shlock Rock 3:07 Mashiach - Mordechai Ben David 3:10 Havdalah - Debbie Friedman 3:18 The Hanukkah Song - Adam Sandler 3:24 Salaam (Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu) - Moshe Ben-Ari (Sheva) 3:32 Acheinu - Abie Rotenberg 3:39 Shir La'Ahava (Yachad) - Gaya 3:48 Anachnu Ma'aminim - Mordechai Ben David 3:54 Hafinali - Subliminal 4:09 Balbeli Oto - Kobi Peretz 4:16 Shabechi Yerushalayim - Glykeria 4:25 V'ohavta - Yeshiva Boys Choir 4:34 Boee - Idan Reichel 4:41 One Day - Matisyahu 4:41 Niggun Nevo - Shlomo Katz 4:47 Vehi Sheamda - Yaakov Shwekey, Yonantan Razel 4:51 Yesh Tikvah - Benny Friedman 4:53 Yalili - 8th Day 4:55 Et Rekod - Yaakov Shwekey 4:57 Mahapecha Shel Simcha - Lior Nakis & Omer Adam 5:01 Hashem Melech - Gad Elbaz
My brother and I used to listen to listen to music from Arabic speaking middle eastern lands (I am very fond of Persian speaking middle eastern lands whereas my brother was not, so the distinction) and he fondly used to remember his father, olav ha shalom, who had instilled the love of Arabic music into him, and listened to Farid el atrache for example. I liked Egyptian (Hisham Abbas, also songs like Nour al ayn.by Amr Diab) and Lebanese singers (Syrian singer George Wassouf, dont like his politics but who am i to judge?)..and arabic influenced music such as Zanzibari Tarab..
Since they both originated in the same region, centuries apart, their mutual influences are indubitable. Jewish music has also had influences upon the music of the slavic countries. Klezmer music comes to mind.
0:06 Lama bada yatathana - classical andalusian
0:28 Zourouni - Sayed Darwish
0:40 على بلد المحبوب وديني - Oum Kalthoum
0:50 امتى حتعرف - Ismahan
1:03 أنا قلبي دليلي - Leila Mourad
1:10 Ahwak - Abdel Halim Hafez
1:20 محمد عبد الوهاب - لأ مش أنا اللي ابكي
1:30 Farid El Atrash albi w moftaho
1:40 El toba Abdel Halim
1:46 magadir talal madah
1:47 Fairuz - Aatini al Nay wa ghanni
1:59 يا عنيد يا يابا - عبده موسى
2:07 ساعات ساعات صباح
2:18 majda al roumi ana 3am bahlam
2:21 Ali Hamida - Loulaky
2:29 Mohammed Abdo - Hala Bi Tayyibil Ghali
2:36 Nour El Ein - Amr Diab
2:46 Khaled - Didi
2:50 Ya Magnon - Asala
2:55 Elissa - Baddy Doub
3:03 Miami Band - Al Hamdellah Wa Shefnakom
3:07 cheb khaled avec faudel & rachid taha abdel kader
3:17 3abd el majid 3abdallah - Rahib
3:28 Saber El Rebai - Sidi Mansour
3:40 Youm Wara Youm - Samira Said
3:49 Hakim - AH YA ALBI
3:54 Sidi Wesalak - Angham
4:06 Nancy Ajram - Akhasmak Ah
4:13 Haifa Wehbe Boos El Wawa
4:19 Mohammed Abdou, al- Amaken
4:22 Sherine - Ah Ya Leil
4:30 Hussein El Jasmi - Habibi Barchaloni
4:42 جميلة طيني ورور
4:50 Humood - Kun Anta
4:54 Hala AL Turk - Zahgana
4:59 الأنين- هلا بريحة هلي
5:01 Waleed Al Shami ... Ahebah Kolesh
5:09 بلقيس - يا هوى (فيديو كليب) | Balqees
5:19 DOUNIA BATMA MAZYAN WA3AR
5:22 Rabeh Saqer … Khamees
5:28 Asma Lmnawar - Safi
5:32 Saad Lamjarred - M3ALLEM
Popular Israeli singers are popular in Arabic speaking countries as well, as well as in Iran.
It was easier in the centuries past to control the information that flows into the minds of the populace, and thus the rulers and mullahs could create their own stories and peddle them as THE truth, education and sophistication and technology has brought all together.
If only PEOPLE can choose and rule their RULERS ?
