The first question would be: How today’s modern Ashkenazi 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 secrete songs in synagogue typically in Yiddish- the old language of Hebrew back then. Other than Hebrew - the tongue of the Bible - the language of speech and song is mainly Yiddish (Judeo-German); nowadays, English and other local languages have come to play a large role in Jewish Music
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Till now, the Middle East has been a battle ground 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 about the Arab Jewish music borderland which occurred after the declaration of 1948 and conflicts emerged not merely between the borderland and the dominant Israeli musical genre, but through internal struggles between different Arab Jewish styles competing for cultural visibility. 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 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- times dancing. In Kerem Hatemanim, an Arab Jewish neighborhood, haflat took place at night in people 's homes, backyards, and on sidewalks. 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 was welcome as it was influencing majorities which brought equality between the Mizrahim and the Ashknazim. 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 tensions in the Arab world both Jewish and
Till now, the Middle East has been a battle ground 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 about the Arab Jewish music borderland which occurred after the declaration of 1948 and conflicts emerged not merely between the borderland and the dominant Israeli musical genre, but through internal struggles between different Arab Jewish styles competing for cultural visibility. 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 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- times dancing. In Kerem Hatemanim, an Arab Jewish neighborhood, haflat took place at night in people 's homes, backyards, and on sidewalks. 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 was welcome as it was influencing majorities which brought equality between the Mizrahim and the Ashknazim. 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 tensions in the Arab world both Jewish and