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 A new collection of Yiddish songs casts Israel as the ‘evildoer’ in Gaza

JL;DR SUMMARY A collection of Yiddish songs titled "Lider mit Palestine: New Yiddish Songs of Grief, Fury, and Love," produced by Joe Dobkin, Josh Waletzky, and Isabel Frey, casts Israel in a critical light, accusing it of committing atrocious acts in Gaza. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish MusicYiddishZionismDiasporaGazaPalestineActivismCultural CritiqueProtest Songs

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Gaza, Central District, Israel
"Lider mit Palestine: New Yiddish Songs of Grief, Fury, and Love draws on the history of the language including a rich legacy of progressive protest songs in ways validating to Jews who share the contributors leftist politics and no doubt infuriating to Jews who dont.(The Hebrew word khurban, which can be used in Yiddish to mean genocide in general and the Holocaust in particular, originally described the destruction of the First and Second Temples,."
Vienna, Austria
"and Frey, 30, is a singer and ethnomusicologist who writes and records Yiddish protest songs in her native Vienna."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Dobkin, 42, is a Brooklyn-based audio producer and poet who performs and teaches at Yiddish festivals, and Frey, 30, is a singer and ethnomusicologist who writes and records Yiddish protest songs in her native Vienna."
Canada
"At last years KlezCanada, a summer retreat for the North American Yiddish community, amid the Yiddish classes and musical performances, organizers held a series of four Community Conversations to help attendees air the diverse ways we have been connected to and impacted by the war in Israel and Gaza."

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