It's thousand year old hymns, three hundred year old Shabbat table songs and 60 year old partisan resistance songs. Jewish music is Klezmer dances, Sephardic ballads and Chassidic niggun. I started getting a clue a few years ago. For me, Jewish music used to be Adon Olam, Hava Nagila, and Fiddler on the Roof.
I'm a Conservative Jew living in a Christian farm town in Michigan, USA. Hat tip to Alexyrozov for posting the Dona video Paul, MN, 2006.You can find out more about Seigel through her web site. Videorecording produced by Neal Gosman for Yerushe: Minnesota Association for the Promotion of Yiddish Culture and Language. “Celebrating the lives and works of martyred Soviet Yiddish poets and writers: A 50th anniversary: Itsik Fefer, Shmuel Halkin, Dovid Hofshteyn, Moyshe Kulbak, Perets Markish”. Zingt! A celebration of Yiddish choral music. I don't think that Seigel has a solo recording out yet, but she's been featured on two compilation dics: I particularly enjoyed her " Dos trinken-lid (”Drinking Song”)", but all the tracks were excellent. The second is Amanda “Miryem-Khaye” Seigel, a "Yiddishist and a Yiddish singer, songwriter and performer known for her humorous and heartfelt performances." Her website has a number of great mp3 tracks for you to check out, and they're well worth it. This performance, according to the YouTube page, is "Shpil zhe mir a lidele" performed at Yiddish-Fest 2007 in Moscow with soloist - Alina Ivakh The first is Dona, a Russian "chamber Yiddish song ensemble (3-4 singers) with a classical instrumental accompaniment (violin, accordeon, clarinet, bass, piano, and guitars)" According to the bio for Dona in there Klezmershack band listing, "was founded in 2004 by Anatoly Pinsky organizes international Festivals of Jewish Music in Moscow." Their website is. I've run a cross a couple of nice Yiddish performances recently.
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