Sephardi (Mizrachi) Sacred Music of Shiraz, Iran

[DaveBritish]

People Of Judah/Israel and Iran/Persia, YOUR LORD IS ONLY ONE!!!!!!! HE LOVES YOU ALL AND AWAITS PEACE FOR BOTH JERUSALEM AND Q'OM. G'D BLESS JEWS AND ARYANS. 

[cantodelcavallero]

it remembers me the flamenco of spain. nice

[uphamtimothy]

People should get Sephardic mixed up with Mizrahi. Sephardic in Hebrew means "Spanish," they were in the Iberian peninsula before being expelled. They speak Ladino, a mixture of medieval Castilian Spanish, Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and later Greek, Turkish, Bulgarian, and Serbo-Croatian. Mizrahi in Hebrew means "Easterner," and still live in the Middle East. They speak Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, Aramaic, and Judeo-Malayalam. But they are all equal contributors to the Jewish civilization.

[RicardoSabong]

jews of persia are good people

[BikarBatlan]

Is it really a big deal if someone makes a mistake and calls a Persian a Sepharadi? There are plenty of Persians, my own grandmother included, who come from towns populated only by those who fled the Inquisition. People should be more concerned with the more important aspects of Torah and not peripheral ideas such as where our grandparents lived. We have our own Avodah to give to Hashem. Let's worry about it, shall we.

[vinivici]

imagine my wonder when i went searching for sephardi music and i found you :)

[pikpokSlovenija]

love iranian people...fantastic country...

[pikpokSlovenija]

people of iran...you are the best, very frendly...thank you for everything...your contry is fantastic...

[tahdig]

Great video. Thanks so much for posting.

[rivercryforrain]

LOVE IT THANK YOU!!!

[arkhatych]

This Hazzan's song is sounds like hassidic song with Persian touch.

[rudabeh]

Can anybody recommend any books or websites about Persian (Mizrachim) Jewish tradition or customs?

[ilana0507]

@rudabeh hey you asked if there are any books about persian jews and such. there is a book called, "farzandane esther" OR in english, " esther's children". it has a lot of the information you are looking for!

[cbwritersblock]

Yes, that is a good one...it's a very large book, I have it at home. My grandfather is actually in it :-)

[ilana0507]

Same, I also have it. My grandmother is in it :)

[AlmazB]

Yes and also realise that after the inquisition some Spanish Jews immigrated to Muslim lands that is why you will see some Iraqi and Syrian Jews named Franco. I have family in Brooklyn that are straight from Aleppo and their last name is Franco. There are exceptions to this rule but for the most part Sephardic Jews are descendants of Spanish Jews that were expelled from Spain in 1492 and Mizrahim are Jews never left the middle east or as in the case of Iran Central Asia Persians are not Arabs

[arkhatych]

Many sephareds emigrated from Turkey to Iraq/Syria. And all the Sephardic Jews(from spain) Samekh-Tet - Spharadi Tahor(Pure Sephared). Also many Sephareds married Non Spenish Jews like in London wich has Multi Cutural Jewish community of Both Sephardic and Ashkenazi origion.

[AlmazB]

True so true

[geva90]

beautiful///!

thats you made it?--->in israeli jewish persian music die!

[cbwritersblock]

See the annotations I made to the video

[ilana0507]

@MojaveViper29 yes we are...

we are mizrachi/ sefardi

[ForgottenEasternJews]

@MojaveViper29 Yes Persian Jews are technically not sefardic. But they are grouped as such for classification purpose. Same with Iraqi, Syrian, Yemeni, Kurdish, Egyptian Jews etc. In 1492, Jews from Spain migrated in large number to N Africa and Turkey. But it has been more than 500 yrs now and they still cannot be called Sefardic. Though Jews have been living in Spain for more than 2000 yrs, its population and culture boomed 1100 yrs ago. Many Jews from ME and N Africa migrated to Spain.

[WinkyMaeve]

@ForgottenEasternJews Persian Jews are Ephrahim who got Persianized and assimilated over thousands of years, Sephardi were from Iberien Penisula and not Ephrahim

[idiot0of0fire]

@MojaveViper29 are we mizrahi then?

[WinkyMaeve]

@idiot0of0fire Persian Jews are the oldest community outside of Israel on the entire planet.

you predate Sephardi and Mizrahi labels.

Jewish history in spain is like 1500 years, Jewish history in Persia/Iran is 3000

you are just Persian Jews, from the tribe of Ephraim, most of the Ephraim Israelites(your ancestors) settled in Iran after the rebuilding of the temple because of affection for the Persian king Cyrus

[Barbarian1Horde]

Malditos Judíos Rascistas, ya lo comprobé con sus libros Satánicos del Talmud, Genocidas Mierderos, Destructores de moralistas de paises enteros, provocadores de Guerras en cuales murieron millones de personas, Gracias a Ustedes, Solo respeto a lo verdaderos Judíos Ortodoxos que realmente quieren la Paz Y No tratar a la demás Gente como Animales, Como la gran Mayoría Y a Esos por ultimo VAYANSE ALA MIERDA, CARAJO

VER: Y, ¿qué hay de los judíos?

[cbwritersblock]

AvigailNeshama and MeytalA - you are both absolutely correct, this was my mistake. Please see the annotation I've made to the video and to the sidebar. Let me know if there is anything else I can do to make the distinction clearer.

[AlmazB]

But your video is lovely and please keep up the good work.

[MeytalA]

This is VERY INACCURATE. Sephardic Jews originate from Spain. Iraqi, Persian and other middle eastern jews alike are NOT SEPHARADIM, they are MIZRACHIM. the term Mizrachi means EAST. jews that come from the East are Mizrachim, the middle eastern jews. Some falsely call them selves sehpardic but thats inaccurate as THEIR ANCESTORS DO NOT COME FROM SPAIN. Its not so much insulting as it is inaccurate and more disappointing that you would make a video and post it without knowing the history.

[AvigayilNeshama]

Very inaccurate. The Persian Jews are NOT Sephardic at all, and the term Sephardic does NOT mean Jews with similar culture at all. This is merely SLANG, AND IT IS INSULTING TO REAL SEPHARDIC JEWS, to reduce their identitiy to all sorts of Jews simply for being Middle Eastern. The proper terminology for such Jews is MIZRAHIM, or MUSTARABIM meaning EASTERN Jews or Jews from Arab Lands.

STOP PERPETUATING IGNORANCE AND MISINFORMATION!

[eaglepriest]

great video!

the yehudim hafarsim have a special tune for psalm 144 which they sing on motzei shabbath. i've heard it said that the song is the original tune from King David's march-- any comments?

also, i think that the yibane hamikdash at the end is actually an ashkenazi tune but farsi singer.

[cbwritersblock]

I haven't heard that about the psalm specifically, but it sounds interesting, I'll look into it.

So far as I know the tune in the last song is actually "Sephardi" in the sense that it has traditional elements and may also have been influenced by the Makam structure, which is a musical concept that was often used in mosques.