Indelible musical memories of Yom Kippur

Indelible musical memories of Yom Kippur

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norman lebrecht

October 08, 2019

Leonard Cohen, who stood by Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, wrote this song on the Atonement Day liturgy:

 

The Israeli songwriter Naomi Shemer wrote ‘If Only’ during that terrible war, an uptake on the Beatles’ Let It Be.

Shlomo Carlebach, the singing rabbi, brought his own take to liturgy.

The tragically shortlived Ofra Haza sings a Yemenite Yom Kippur prayer, Im Nin’alu

 

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