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Neshama Carlebach performs for Jewish Academy
of Metropolitan Detroit.

STEVEN ROSENBERG
Special to the Jewish News

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"I'm very proud of my father," she says.
In keeping with Reb Shlomo's legacy,
she performs his niggunim and tells sto-
ries about the Baal Shem Tov, Reb Levi
Yitzhak of Berdichev and Reb Nachman
of Breslov — the same stories she heard
her father tell all of his life.
"My father used to say, 'If you keep
telling stories you're never going to get
old,"' she says. "It's very important that
these stories be told forever because

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f you heard his music or saw him
in concert, chances are that you'll
never forget Rabbi Shlomo
Carlebach. A seminal figure in
modern Jewish music, Carlebach
brought words of Torah to the masses
through song and lost stories of chasidic
masters.
Now, years after his death,
Reb Shlomo's daughter,
Neshama Carlebach, has taken
over the mantle from her
father, continuing to perform
his songs and tell the stories he
told.
Carlebach will perform Aug.
28 in a Jewish Academy of
Metropolitan Detroit concert
in Handleman Hall at the
West Bloomfield Jewish
Community Center. The con-
cert is made possible by the
support of Dr. Joel and Karen
Kahn.
A native and current resident
of New York who grew up in
Toronto and Israel, Neshama,
now in her mid-20s, didn't
start singing until she was 13.
Her breakthrough album was a Neshama Carlebach:
Her voice and
duet with her father, Ha

they're all true stories."
But, she says, "I don't
harmonies soar,
think my father wanted me
Neshama Shel Shlomo.
and her connection
to be a clone, or carbon
In her own recordings,
with
her
father
copy,
of him. I think he
Neshama Carlebach keeps
is transcendental.
wanted me to be me. I feel
coming back to the two main
he would be proud of me.
influences in her life: Torah
"I talk to him a lot; he comes to me
and her father. "The more you learn
in dreams. He's always singing to me. I
Torah, the more you realize you don't
feel instinctively that he's happy with
know," she says. "When you study
what I'm doing."
Torah, you feel grounded and uplifted at
Her dream is to bring her father's
the same time."
music to the whole world. "Not every-
As for the creative process, she also
body speaks Hebrew," she notes, "but I
credits God for her work. "All good
think his melodies have the power to
things come as a channel through God,"
move worlds and universes."
Neshama says. "God is the ultimate cre-
ator, and we are created in His image.
So it would make sense that all good art
Neshama Carlebach performs 7
comes through God."
p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 28, ar the West
Her music and career are dedicated to
Bloomfield Jewish Community
her father, who, she says, is always with
Center. Tickets are S10, and will
her. Although her father was always on
be available at the door. For more
the road. traveling, they spoke every day.
information, contact the Jewish
Academy of Metropolitan Detroit,
Steven Rosenberg is the editor
(248) 592-5263.

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