Help: looking for a word

[elliott_simon <elliott_simon...>]

To me, the cantorial frameworks that provide klezmer with 
its "jewishness" are akin to the african american spirituals that 
provide jazz with it's "soul"....is there a yiddish term for 
this "soul" or feel of the music that makes it klezmer....that is not 
just a translation of the word soul.....if there isn't...there should 
be...can we agree on one?....this is for a review I am 
doing...thanks...elliott

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