Jewish/Israeli Traditional

While Klezmer is perhaps the best-known Jewish folk music, an entire range of traditional Jewish and Israeli folk exists outside the Eastern European framework. Throughout the millenia, Jews permeated the Middle East, spreading to locales as diverse as Yemen, Andalusia, Syria and Morocco, modifying their musical traditions along the way. The result was a fascinating amalgam of Jewish-themed folk songs steeped in Arabic modalities and instrumentation. Small pockets of musicians, such as oud master Yair Dalal (one of the last Jewish-Iraqi musicians performing the seemingly paradoxical "Arab Jewish music") still carry its traditions. Around the world, such folk aficionados as Berkeley,