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You might have heard a bit about the Hasidic Jewish music scene from my previous videos or from browsing YouTube. It’s a wonderful world, and Yossi Desser is a wonderful part of it. He’s a Satmar Kiryas Joel native (like me) who has a deep love for special kinds of Jewish songs like Rabbi Yomtov Ehrlich songs, old Yiddish theater songs, the stories around Hasidic niggun and the adaptations of Christmas carols to Yiddish Chanukah Carols.

In this segment, Yossi and I sit down to discuss the stories around some iconic Jewish music and he performs some of it. I invite you to join this holiday-time discussion and to leave a comment! I added the translations to the songs so you can follow along no matter if you understand Yiddish, Hebrew or Hungarian.

Many thanks to Mrs. Dina Storch whose translation of ‘Yom Kippur’ by Yom-Tov Ehrlich was very helpful.

11:15 ‘Ani Mamin’ by a Modzitz Hasid who perished in the holocaust
32:55 ‘Yom Kippur’ by Reb Yom-Tov Ehrlich
49:51 Hasidic Niggun (Rizhuner)
1:00:45 ‘Belz’ or ‘Beltz’, a Yiddish classic song
1:09:59 ‘Sola Kokosh Mar’ from the Kalover Rebbe
1:21:31 ‘Luz a Shnei’ by Yossi Desser