Greek music fills Israeli weddings, cafés, and stadiums — but why? Israel doesn’t just listen to Greek music; it needs it. Listen to ‘Wandering Jews’ as we uncover how a “foreign” sound became a cultural safe harbor, revealing the Israeli search for identity and belonging. Through stories of exile, trauma, and survival, Greek music became a borrowed and reimagined sound of a Mediterranean home. What we listen to, it turns out, tells us who we want to be.
Links for Additional Readings:
Rosa Eskenazi, The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women
The Mediterranean Israeli Identity, A.B. Yehoshua, the European Institute of the Mediterranean
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