10 Facts About Jewish music

Edward Seroussi has written, "What is known as 'Jewish music' today is thus the result of complex historical processes".

Synagogues following traditional Jewish rites do not employ musical instruments as part of the synagogue service.

Changes in European Jewish communities, including increasing political emancipation and some elements of religious reform, had their effects on music of the synagogue.

Later in the century, as synagogues began to utilize choirs singing in Western harmony, a number of hazzanim, who had received formal training in Western Jewish music, began to compose works for the synagogue, many of which are still in use today in the congregations of their countries.

Secular Jewish music have been influenced both by surrounding Gentile traditions and Jewish sources preserved over time.

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Around the 15th century, a tradition of secular Jewish music was developed by musicians called kleyzmorim or kleyzmerim by Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe.

Sephardic Jewish music was born in medieval Spain, with canciones being performed at the royal courts.

Jewish music occasionally drew inspiration from Christian sources, but there is nothing characteristically Jewish about any of his music.

The resulting Jewish music is a marriage between often melancholy and "krekhtsen" melodies of the shtetl with late Russian romantic harmonies of Scriabin and Rachmaninoff.

The national labor organization, the Histadrut, set up a Jewish music publishing house that disseminated songbooks and encouraged public sing-alongs.