Emanuel Goldfarb
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🌼Song: Ordinary Song cover by Elli Monade🌼Lyrics:Just an ordinary songTo a special boy like youFrom a simple girlWho's so in love with youI may not have mu...
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Just an Ordinary Jew: Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. With Ben Becker, Siegfried Kernen, Samuel Finzi. Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist respond to an invitation by a professor to tell his pupils about his life as a Jew living in Germany.
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- Drama
- Oliver Hirschbiegel
- 2006-01-19
- “Beyond The Pale,” Big Audio Dynamite
- “Pretzel Logic,” Steely Dan
- “Jarusalema,” Johnny Clegg
- “This Train Revised,” Indigo Girls
- “The Boxer,” Simon & Garfunkel
- “Jesus Was A Dreidel Spinner,” Jill Sobule
- “The only Living Boy in New York,” Simon & Garfunkel
- “Black and Blue,” Louis Armstrong
- “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” Blue Öyster Cult
- “If It Be Your Will,” Leonard Cohen
Several correspondents wondered why Big Audio Dynamite’s “Beyond the Pale” was not on our list. The immediate answer is: none of us thought about it. But being a huge BAD fan myself, I feel some responsibility for this oversight. Big Audio Dynamite is the band that Mick Jones, formerly of the Clash, formed when he left that group. While Joe Strumme...
Several readers felt that “Pretzel Logic” by Steely Dan should be on the list because of some intrinsic connection to Nazism and Adolf Hitler. As John MacKinnon of Halifax, Nova Scotia, explained, “Somewhere, Donald Fagen claimed that one of Steely Dan’s songs contains a ‘hidden’ account of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch. Presumably, ‘Pretzel Logic’ is ...
Scott Benarde was one of our original contributors, but he also suggested a few songs by the late, great Jewish South African artist Johnny Clegg. You can probably figure that “Jarusalema” is an ode to the Holy City beloved by the three great Abrahamic religions. Benarde also suggested consideration be given to Clegg’s “Warsaw, 1941” and “Jericho”.
“This one was influenced when the non-Jewish Amy Ray took a comparative religion class in college and a Holocaust survivor came to deliver a guest lecture. She was embarrassed and shocked she knew nothing about it, hadn’t been taught it in high school, so researched it and eventually wrote this very powerful song.” – Scott Benarde
While “The Boxer” was indeed included on our original list, Havi Rubinstein of Melbourne, Australia, wrote to offer her unique interpretation of why the song is deeply Jewish. “I would suggest there is something explicitly Jewish about the song’s protagonist — the ‘poor boy’ whose story is seldom told. I think this character has been mapped onto th...
“The title is funny, the lyrics can be, too; the music is punk meets polka and klezmer, and it initially might sound like a novelty, but as Hesta Prynn might say, Sobule is being a badass here and exploding with Jewish pride reminding everyone that: “Paul was Saul before he was Paul and the Last Supper was a seder… All you Christians remember, your...
While it is most often read as a missive from Paul Simon to his duet partner, Art Garfunkel — who was off in Mexico filming “Catch-22” when Simon wrote the song – in which Simon recognizes Garfunkel’s desire to go off on his own (“I know that you’ve been eager to fly now”), Sara Lippmann writes that the song “feels like the ultimate Jewish anthem.”...
Originally composed by Fats Waller for “Hot Chocolates,” the same Broadway musical that contained the hits songs “Ain’t Misbehavin’” and “Honeysuckle Rose,” and made into a hit record by Ethel Waters in 1930, the song “Black and Blue” became one of Louis Armstrong’s signature song. While perhaps technically outside of the time and genre boundaries ...
Lynda Kraar writes, “Best Jewish pop song is Rolling Stone’s 1976 Song of the Year, ‘(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,’ by Blue Öyster Cult. The lyrics have prickly notes of ‘The Dybbuk’ against an oaky guitar riff with the calming effect of squid ink.” Kraar quotes songwriter Buck Dharma for support: “…I was thinking about mortality…The whole idea of the R...
As noted elsewhere, we tried to keep a cap on songs by Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and Paul Simon, lest they take up most of the spots on the list. Still, Ronald Glas wrote simply: “Unbelievable that this song not on your list.”
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Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist, is asked by the Director of a Jewish community in Germany, to respond to an invitation by a professor to tell his pupils about his life as a Jew living in Germany.
Dec 21, 2010 · If history has taught us anything, it’s that Jewish music is a dizzyingly broad and fluid category, encompassing an extraordinary range of sounds and styles and ideas and themes, from the...
Dec 23, 2010 · In a list that’s bound to spark debate among Jews and Gentiles alike, Tablet magazine commissioned writers-scholars Jody Rosen and Ari Y. Kelman to compile their list of the 100 greatest Jewish...
