Re: israeli military songs

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

"Mul Har Sinai," on one of Oranim Zabar's wonderful Elektra LPs, I would 
think would count as a "military" (or "army"/"war") song--for which reason 
I'd ordinarily be uncomfortable w/ it, but I'm a sucker for warm harmonies.  
(I think that some of Israel's "war" songs, like the one--I can't think of 
the name, and I think I remember it being a good song, otherwise--that says 
I trust in my bunker and our arms, or whatever--I think that the lyrics of 
some of these songs are quite problematic from a traditional [I don't 
necessarily mean "Orthodox"] perspective.)  A propos Roni's post, we should 
only hope and pray that, in fulfillment of our people's holy vocation--and 
of the Torah's injunction to seek and pursue peace--all our "war" songs 
should be songs of peace.


>From: Rmsarig (at) aol(dot)com
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: israeli military songs
>Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:20:15 EDT
>
>In a message dated 7/19/99 2:08:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
>writes:
>
> > It depends what you mean. There really aren't Israeli (which is
> >  not synonymous with "Jewish," of course--there is even less need
> >  for Jewish military songs :-)) military songs, per se--not in the
> >  sense of "The Halls of Montezuma" or whatever the Marine Corps march
> >  is. On the other hand, there was a popular set of songs from the Six
> >  Day War ("Songs of the Six Day War," or some such) with the most
> >  "military"-sounding Israeli songs I can recall, as much as many of
> >  them dealt with peace.
>
>There was also one of "Songs of the Yom Kippur War"; same kind of thing:
>mostly pop and folk songs, many about peace and about patriotism, not much
>militarism as I recall. They were released in Israel on LP after each war; 
>I
>don't know if they were ever reissued or put on CD, or if they are 
>available
>now.
>-Roni
>
>


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