Picon, Al Jolson and Avraham Fried.
"Our most recent acquisition was
Yemenite traditional music, sung by
Jewish communities in that country,
with a very peculiar sound," Kibrit
says.
Musician Mauro Perelmann of Rio
de Janeiro is the founder and artistic
director of Zemer, the only klezmer
music band in Rio.
"The survival of a people is due,
among other factors, to the keeping
of its culture," Perelmann says.
"Therefore, I find it great that
there exists a Brazilian Internet radio
that plays nothing but Jewish
music."
YidishMusic's current program-
ming includes music by a group
known as Aufwind, which keeps
Jewish musical culture alive in
Germany by playing traditional
songs with new arrangements.
Dzigan and Shumacher features
two Yiddish humorists who broad-
cast 30-minute programs on
Sundays, and Goldene Voices plays
recordings by senior choirs every day
but Saturday.
"It's tremendously difficult to find
Yiddish music, and it's usually from
the 1960s. Very few artists seem
interested in recording in Yiddish
today," Kibrit laments, mentioning
Israelis "Dudu" Fisher and Chava
Alberstein as exceptions.
"My grandparents' language is
dying," he says. "My hope is that
YidishMusic can create this bridge
between past and future. And I guess
we're being successful."
Kibrit comes from what he calls
"mixed" Jewish heritage —
Ashkenazi on his mother's side,
Sephardi on his father's. Raised in a
Jewish neighborhood of Sao Paulo,
he attended the city's Sholem
Aleichem school, where he learned
Yiddish, but not Hebrew.
"Beside this, my grandmother
lived with us for several years, and I
would only hear Yiddish at home,"
he says. "The smell and the emo-
tions of those times led me to create
YidishMusic for my own pleasure."
The pleasure is nostalgic for many
listeners as well.
"I was surprised to find songs I
could never imagine I would, like
the ones my grandfather and father
sang to me when I was a child," says
historian Esther Kuperman. "I
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