Just in time for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Hasidic composer Yossi Green has released a video for his song set to the words of Av HaRachamim—a memorial prayer recited in synagogue every Shabbat morning. The prayer was written in the late 11th century to commemorate the Jewish communities destroyed by Christian crusaders, and has been transformed by Green into a musical memory of the Holocaust, with a powerful music video filmed at Auschwitz and paired with actual photo and video footage from the Holocaust.
The video features Tsudik Greenwald, the chief cantor of the Central Synagogue in Frankfurt, Germany, and quite adorably, his young son. Together, Green explained, the two singers are meant to be a “reincarnation of the voices that can sing no more and a continuation of the voices who sing today and in the future.”
From Tablet Magazine
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