{"id":2366,"date":"2020-09-11T12:21:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T10:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2020-09-11T12:38:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T10:38:32","slug":"mbs-with-the-jewish-music-from-the-place-where-all-was-lost-the-reconstruction-of-the-hungarian-jewish-music-with-di-naye-kapelye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/en\/musicbeforeshabbat\/mbs-with-the-jewish-music-from-the-place-where-all-was-lost-the-reconstruction-of-the-hungarian-jewish-music-with-di-naye-kapelye\/","title":{"rendered":"MBS with the Jewish music from the place where all was lost: the reconstruction of the Hungarian Jewish music with Di Naye Kapelye"},"content":{"rendered":"

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11th September 2020 \u2013 Shabbat is almost here<\/strong><\/h4>\n

And the life history of Bob Cohen, founder of Di Naye Kapelye, will inspire us with his\u00a0commitment\u00a0to an almost, almost lost legacy. An outstanding story, the cherry on top\u00a0before the\u00a0Yamim Noraim.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Hello, how are you? I am almost shivering with emotion to share with you the interview with Bob Cohen. Why? I must tell you that my personal background, my family roots, are not connected to music at all and much less with these musics that were very difficult to reach more than 20 years ago. Moreover, I am from the periphery of Europe, a country where there are not Jewish people for more than 5 centuries, apart from the ones that came as inmigrants during the last decades.<\/p>\n

In such a context, to discover in 1998 something\u00a0like Di Naye Kapelye and their powerful rendition of\u00a0Dem Rebns Tants would cause the piece to be marked in my memory.<\/p>\n

And 22\u00a0years after, the man behind it is answering my questions with immense generosity and explaining us how the magical mix of commitment, effort, talent and ethics made all that work possible. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As usual, you have the video at the bottom.\u00a0<\/span>And if you like this, as usual, please: share it with your friends! Thank you in advance.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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The search where there was “nothing” left<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

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A few days ago I realiced that Poland and Ukraine were quite present in this MBS. But somehow I was not reaching to so many facts about Hungarian Jewish popular music, a Hungarian cantor\u00a0or anything recorded before the World War II…\u00a0While trying to find something I found phrases like\u00a0there is nothing recorded, nor written in scores and not even\u00a0described, about the Jewish music from Hungary from before the Holocaust<\/em>. Heartbreaking.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But I thought what about Di Naye Kapelye<\/em>? They play Hungarian Jewish music. How did they do that? The answer is this interview with Bob Cohen, founder of the band. This man on the right is he in a profile picture from\u00a0his Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bob was born at the USA. He will unveils his life story for us. If you want to know more, don’t miss a visit to\u00a0his blog,\u00a0Dumneazu: Ethnomusicological Eating East of Everywhere.<\/a>\u00a0Along the interview I will include also some digressions, in this colour<\/span> <\/span>as well as many links (in orange<\/span>)<\/span> in case you want to learn more.<\/p>\n

I am moved by Bob’s generous answer, so deep and detailed, that is a lesson for life.<\/p>\n

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