Reply To: Non-Jewish Music

To me Mahler is more inspiring than MBD, Shostakovitch more than Shwekey. Also, I fail to see why listening to ‘yidden’ by MBD is more spiritual than listening to ‘Genghis Kahn’ (the Eurovision-winning song which ‘provided’ the tune for ‘yidden’). That may be the most famous example of plagiarism in the Jewish-music world but it is by no means amongst a minority. With painfully few exceptions almost all Jewish artists have taken parts or even the entirety of non-Jewish songs. A favourite seems to be Abba who have had part or whole tunes used by Dedi, Shwekey, Gertner, Fried and more.