The first question is: How today’s modern Ashkenazi folk music is different considering to (Eastern) European music? According to research, culturally many religious Jews who lived Europe have kept their same traditions and customs fully over a long period of time, which somehow they distinguished themselves from other European culture and religion. As a result, the music in Judaism in Europe kept alive. This religious music mostly knows as liturgical chant sacred songs in synagogue typically in Yiddish- as a unique hybrid of German, and Hebrew (Schleifer 1995). Numerous Jewish people spoke Yiddish in the various countries where they dwelled. Therefore, numerous amounts of their song lyrics were created from their religious text from the Tanakh
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Till now, the Middle East has been a battleground for ages and still to this day as a complicated conflict; especially with the border issue between the Israelis government and the Palestinians government. According to an article “Arab-Jewish Musicians and the Politics of Performance” by Galit Saada-Ophir, discusses the Arab-Jewish music borderland which occurred after Israel’s independence of 1948 (Saada-Ophir, 2006). The conflicts emerged not simply between the borderland and the prevailing Israeli musical genre, but in the course of internal resistance between different Arab-Jewish styles competing for cultural visibility (Regev, 1996). Although Israel stood up for democracy yet for Arab Jews had to face a power struggle occurred during that time; especially when the term Arab-Jewish was abolished and changed to Mizrahim. As a result of this so-called Arab-Jewish Musician borderland usually, Jews from Yemen was established to promote Mizrahi music to their fellow Ashkenazi Zionists. One example is during the 1960s, musicians spontaneously organized Haflut-an Arabic word meaning a party that entails the playing of music, singing, eating, and some- time dancing. In Kerem Hatemanim, an Arab-Jewish neighborhood, Haflat took place at night in people 's homes, backyards, and on sidewalks (Regev, 1996). These parties inverted the dominant Zionist musical practice that had adapted Middle Eastern tunes to classical European models. As a result, Middle Eastern music and culture were welcome as it was influencing majorities which brought equality between the Mizrahim and the Ashkenazim. On the other hand, it is still unknown due to the fact that a continuous current conflict is still happening between the two parties of the Israeli government and the Palestinian government. It is fortunate, however that Mizrahi music can resolve some of the hatred
Till now, the Middle East has been a battleground for ages and still to this day as a complicated conflict; especially with the border issue between the Israelis government and the Palestinians government. According to an article “Arab-Jewish Musicians and the Politics of Performance” by Galit Saada-Ophir, discusses the Arab-Jewish music borderland which occurred after Israel’s independence of 1948 (Saada-Ophir, 2006). The conflicts emerged not simply between the borderland and the prevailing Israeli musical genre, but in the course of internal resistance between different Arab-Jewish styles competing for cultural visibility (Regev, 1996). Although Israel stood up for democracy yet for Arab Jews had to face a power struggle occurred during that time; especially when the term Arab-Jewish was abolished and changed to Mizrahim. As a result of this so-called Arab-Jewish Musician borderland usually, Jews from Yemen was established to promote Mizrahi music to their fellow Ashkenazi Zionists. One example is during the 1960s, musicians spontaneously organized Haflut-an Arabic word meaning a party that entails the playing of music, singing, eating, and some- time dancing. In Kerem Hatemanim, an Arab-Jewish neighborhood, Haflat took place at night in people 's homes, backyards, and on sidewalks (Regev, 1996). These parties inverted the dominant Zionist musical practice that had adapted Middle Eastern tunes to classical European models. As a result, Middle Eastern music and culture were welcome as it was influencing majorities which brought equality between the Mizrahim and the Ashkenazim. On the other hand, it is still unknown due to the fact that a continuous current conflict is still happening between the two parties of the Israeli government and the Palestinian government. It is fortunate, however that Mizrahi music can resolve some of the hatred