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Re: Help: looking for a word

At 01:05 PM 10/17/02, 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.....

Yes there's a word. Actually it's a phrase: "yidishn ta'am".
The literal translation is "Jewish flavor".

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Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ

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