Jan 25, 2025, 8:57 PM
As an Ashkenazi Jew born in Israel, in hindsight I realised these recent years how most of the tunes my family new and even the synagogue we went to (on those rare occasions) were Yemenite. These pas years I always thought it was the way for my parent- esp. my dad, to "feel" more Israeli, the way east European Jewry was/is always "frowned upon", the whole story of the weak Jew and so on.
But maybe the cultural mix-and-match went both ways? Sounds a bit too good to be true, I know. Would be interesting to hear more stories like yours...
