Re:: Where are you from?

[Shirona <shirona...>]

Chag Same'ach to everyone...

I'm from Brooklyn NY... moved to Israel at age 5 and lived in Israel till after 
serving in the army.  Moved back to NY and have been living here since. My 
father is a 6th generation Sabra (Israeli born) - half Sephardi and half 
Ashkenazi... his Sephardi mother's family considered themselves "aristocratic", 
and marrying an Ashkenazi (even if he was a Levy...) was looked down upon. They 
spoke Ladino and were certainly very cultured...  My mother's parents were 
Russian immigrants who came to the lower east side in the 20's, although my 
grandfather spent several years as a "Halutz" in Palestine... building roads 
and getting malaria, like most of them did.

My grandparent are all deceased now... but I feel their presence when I compose 
Jewish Liturgical music... and I'm not really sure how that works.  There is an 
"homage" to the musical flavors of Eastern Europe, the Sephardic, the Israeli 
and of course American...

It's wonderful that we can share this with each other, and really get the sense 
that we're all links in a long, amazing chain...

A zisn Peysach...

Shirona
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: JOAN RUNDO 
  To: World music from a Jewish slant 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 10:47 AM
  Subject: Re:: Where are you from?


  Hello everyone, I was born in Scotland to parents of a Polish Jewish, Swedish 
and Swiss background - and now live in Italy (Rundo was originally Rundsztajn - 
from Lodz)
  Chag sameach to eveyone out there - wherever you come from!
  Joan