Shefardic

[billkilpatrick]

amongst other things, some interesting shefardic music videos featuring mandolin;

http://www.youtube.com/user/pedsarod02

[Paul Hostetter]

That link went nowhere, perhaps the linked film has been pulled down, but typing in the root word "Sephard" (there's no H after the S) brings in Sephardic and so on. Adding the word mandolin yielded nothing: their brilliant search engine auto-corrected "Sephard" to "shepherd" and you got Christmas carols on the mandolin. Oops. But cutting to the chase and simply inputting "jewish mandolin" got tons of hits.

[Avi Ziv]

By the way, "Sephardic" comes from the Hebrew word Spharad which is the Hebrew name of the country Spain. Jews of Spanish origin have spread over western Europe (and other places) starting in the 15th century (mass expulsion) and brought with them a particular version of Judaism including religious life, language, food, and music. The Jews of Northern Africa and middle eastern Arab countries also consider themselves Sephardic

Avi

[billkilpatrick]

sorry for the dud link ... seems he's removed his videos. i imagine he was of shepardic origin and just to illustrate the extent of the diaspora, he was posting from the dominican republic ...

(later) i wasn't sure where to put this - here or "klezmer." i knew sephardic jews came from spain and toyed with the idea of "west coast klezmer" ... a "beach boy klezmer" - "help me rhoda" sort of thing ...

[allenhopkins]

Was the singing in Ladino?

[billkilpatrick]

Was the singing in Ladino?
good question ... i would guess so but i can't say for certain.

[Vigee]

The Jews of Northern Africa and middle eastern Arab countries also consider themselves Sephardic
To be precise, the communities where exiled Spanish Jews immigrated are considered Sephardic, having largely overwhelmed the existing Jewish populations, demographically and culturally. Arab or Middle-Eastern Jews, otherwise, are Mizrahim, not Sephardim.

[allenhopkins]

good question ... i would guess so but i can't say for certain.
Rough analogy: Ladino is to Spanish as Yiddish is to German. Not exact, but gives you the idea.

[billkilpatrick]

yes, i knew that ... oy-vey/olè!