Re: Help: looking for a word

[Sylvia Schildt <creativa...>]

I think the term neshome covers the spiritual side - consider also the word
"kneytch" or "crease" which alludes to the special musicality of klezmer.

Sylvia Schildt
Baltimore Maryland



on 10/17/02 1:05 PM, elliott_simon (at) dca(dot)net at elliott_simon (at) 
dca(dot)net wrote:

> 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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