A very spesial klezmer event happend in Jerusalem (2 Sep 08) to honor Moshe (Moussa) Berlin for his fiftieth anniversary of klezmer activity. Many klezmers participated the event, and this is one of the clips.
Some Klezmer clarinet piece has a dance feel to it but this sounds like a person telling a story. A story of peace and happiness with a happy ending in a world of kind coexistence. Thanks These are the masters.
I had never known an instrument could play with your emotions, I've only in recent years discovered the clarinet, and here it's being played at it's best.
Well, I don't think Mr BERLIN is spharadi, so... Secondly, cases of Spharadim called Moussa instead of Moshe are VERY rare. Maybe among Mizrahim, cause those living in Arab countries were totally of Arab culture. Very few Maghrebi Jews (which are Spharadim, not Mizrahim) prevailed Moussa over Moshe, or Moïse (the French version for this name).
Most of the "Sephardim" in Israel are in fact Mizrakhim. The terms are messy anyway. "Ethnically", the Sephardim are only the descendants of the Spanish Jews, and thus distinct from the Mizrakhim (Ladino vs. Judeo-Arabic); in terms of minhagim, however, they mostly share the same traditions, thus one single "Sephardic" chief rabbi in Israel. Most of the Maghrebi Jews are Mizrakhi, not Sephardi. However, even those boundaries can be fluid. Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides), for instance, was Sephardi, but escaped Spain as a teenager, ended up in Cairo, and wrote in Judeo-Arabic (along with Arabic and rabbinical Hebrew). He may, or may not, have spoken Ladino at home.
