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Well, you just have to read Mira’s post about it. How could the shikse resist? And didn’t she just have to use the church reverb effect?
kaddish in two-part harmony
A conversation between an anthropologist and a musician along with a growing virtual minyan, on themes of death and dying, grief, ritual, and the interplay between music and words.about
Trying to learn this Ashkenazi accented kaddish from the Chabad ‘learn to recite kaddish like a pro’ website was absolutely daunting — and hilarious. The ‘oi’s of it all feel downright barbaric, antiquated and shtetly–quaint. Much more exposure, and it might be catchy.
If you didn’t catch them, these were the Ashkenazi substitutions:
ויתרומם – ve-yitroimum instead of ve-yitromum
עשה – oiseh instead of oseh
שלום – shaloim instead of shalom
במרומיו – bimroimav instead of bimromav