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An early influence on Orthodox pop was the 1971 album Or Chodosh, the debut of an eponymous group created by Sh'or Yoshuv roommates Rabbi Shmuel Brazil, who would later create the group Regesh, and Yossi Toiv, later known as Country Yossi; the group performed at Brooklyn College with David Werdyger's son, the young Mordechai Ben David, opening for them.
Michael Isaacson grew up in Reform Jewish summer camps and was the primary innovator in Jewish camp music. He has since established himself as a prominent composer of synagogue music. Tofa'ah, founded in 1981, was the first all-women Jewish rock/jazz band. It sets traditional religious Jewish texts to its own compositions, as well as composes ...
Jerusalem-born Orthodox singer-songwriter and rock guitarist. Described his music as "klezmer with electric guitar". Craig Taubman Conservative singer-songwriter, best known for his children's music. 1982 Isaac Bitton: 1984 Tofa'ah: All-female Jewish rock/blues/jazz band from Jerusalem. 1985 John Zorn: Avant-garde composer and founder of Tzadik ...
Jewish rock is a form of contemporary Jewish religious music that is influenced by various forms of secular rock music.Pioneered by contemporary folk artists like Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and the Diaspora Yeshiva Band, the genre gained popularity in the 1990s and 2000s with bands like Soulfarm, Blue Fringe, and Moshav Band that appealed to teens and college students, while artists like Matisyahu ...
Koren Publishers Jerusalem is an Israeli publisher of Jewish religious texts. It was established in 1961 by Eliyahu Koren, with the aim of publishing the first Hebrew Bible designed, edited, printed, and bound by Jews in nearly 500 years.
The history of religious Jewish music is about the cantorial, synagogal, and the Temple music from Biblical to Modern times. The earliest synagogal music was based on the same system as that used in the Temple in Jerusalem. According to the Mishnah, the regular Temple orchestra consisted of twelve instruments, and the choir of twelve male singers.
Yossi Green (born 1955) [1] [2] is a Hasidic Jewish composer of contemporary Jewish religious music.As of 2024 he had written more than 1000 melodies [3] in the genres of pop music, classical music, liturgical music, Hasidic music, and show tunes.
The Orthodox Jewish community of Israel, and its parallel community in the United States, have developed a unique form of Hassidic rock, which has become popular throughout the young orthodox community. This musical form combines the sonorities, instrumentation and rhythms of rock music with melodies which are in a klezmer style, and words ...