There is an interesting track in Vladimir Cosma's L'AS DES AS. Broad Bavarian traditional music is playing in a musical duel against Jewish violin music, if I recall it correctly. The two competing strands of music make a very interesting blend. Being the musical lay I am, I cannot guarantee though that I'm characterizing the music in the track correctly. The track is called "Oy ! Oy ! Oy !"

http://soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=27911

No surprise, the movie plays during the 1936 Olympics and shows the struggles a group of Jewish athletes has with the historical situation and the hostile Berlin environment.

Urs

handstand, April 28, 2006; 3:09 AM

Elmer Bernstein,s The Chosen. Unfortunately not issued (yet)
Jerry Goldsmith's Masada
Schindler's list has some good ones.

s.tonkens, April 28, 2006; 3:32 AM

None of them. Not that it's inherently flawed or anything...I just can't stand Jewish music, personally. It doesn't agree with my ears.

American.Nightmare, April 28, 2006; 7:25 AM

Love the music
1...Genocide by Elmer Bernstein
2...Cast A Giant Shadow by Elmer Bernstein
3...QBV11 by Jerry Goldsmith
4...Masada by Jerry Goldsmith
All fantastic!

tanemahuta, April 28, 2006; 9:33 AM

Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein, Philippe Sarde. My favorite top 3 and of course Jerry
Goldsmith. All very Jewish, all very, very good. If you mean specific scoring of Jewish subjects
then Pour Sacha and La Vie Devant Soi by Sarde are good examples.

chris, April 28, 2006; 12:00 PM

Don't shoot me (I'm only the piano player), but in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (1967), Julie Andrews goes to a Jewish wedding and sings "Jewish Wedding Song (Trinkt Le Chaim)". No rhyme nor reason why the song was included in a movie about a gal from Salina, Kansas (with a British accent) coming to New York in the Roaring Twenties to seek excitement, but it's so charming and exhilarating that it actually works well. I'm not Jewish but it's my favorite number in the film. The movie music's composer and conductor, Elmer Bernstein, won his only Academy Award for the score (so I guess the song brought him luck)!

filmfactsman, April 28, 2006; 7:22 PM

I'm not sure if it was a movie a Broadway musical or both... but the one that first came to mind is ''Fiddler on The Roof''. Does it count or do I get zapped???

serifiot, April 28, 2006; 7:38 PM

QBVII by Goldsmith
Enemies A Love Story by Jarre
Murderers Among Us by Conti
All good off the top of my head.

Damjamcar, April 28, 2006; 9:29 PM

And let's add David Shire's score for RAID ON ENTEBBE; sound clips here (try the rousing
"The Raid," Track 21):

http://www.screenarchives.com/fsm/detailCD.cfm?ID=206

pdishal, April 29, 2006; 8:39 AM

pdishal, April 29, 2006; 8:41 AM

Coma, in the original posting which started this thread, Dorian didn't ask for "Jewish
scores," but for "soundtracks with Jewish music," which I agree is open to some
interpretation as to what he's looking for, but perhaps wasn't meant quite as narrowly as
you're defining it. Hard to say. Anyways, I mentioned RAID ON ENTEBBE because of the
subject matter of the film and the feel of some of the music. As album producer Lukas
Kendall described it in the accompanying notes:

"Shire's sparse score deftly underscores the threat of the terrorists, the anguish of the
hostages and the celebration of their return (the last cue featuring an authentic Israeli
folksong).

"Most notably Shire wrote a pulsating, aggresive theme for the Israeli commandos which
is the best -- and possibly the only -- example of 'Jewish action music' in the history of
film, with four pianos beefing up the bassline."

pdishal, April 29, 2006; 8:00 PM

*Entebbe is a city and former capital of Uganda and the movie ''Raid On Entebee'' tells the true story on the raid that occurred in its airport back in 1976 by Israeli commandos to save Israeli hostages held by Palestinian rebels.*


Having that said, I was thinking more in terms of strict traditional Jewish music and perhaps renditions of Jewish music used within film scores this is why ''Fiddler On The Roof" immediately popped in my head and the only one I can honestly think of as an all trully Jewish film score but I don't see were this upbeat sort of action/militimaristic piece from ''Raid On Entebee'' with the constant tambourine and touberleki beat throughout is Jewish music either.

Is it perhaps because of the flute motif mentioned or even because of the tambourine and touberleki beats used throughout this melody? So what.
Surely some of the musical instruments used here are musical instruments used in Middle Eastern music were they give this particular track perhaps a some sort of Middle Eastern/Jewish flavor but it does not strike me as so called all Jewish music when I listen to it. It really strikes me as a purely action/militimaristic highly energized piece of music. Actually it is really good.

In fact why is Masada and QB VII a choice as well?
Yes, the composer was Jewish like a lot (most) of U.S. film composers... but the music Jewish?

I believe these are purely film scores which underline movies with Jewish themed plots and nothing more.

serifiot, April 29, 2006; 10:49 PM

CYBORG (of course feat. Jean Claude Van Damme) ;)

baalgehenna, April 30, 2006; 6:25 PM

The Jazz Singer 1980!

Okay, not really. It's a fine SONG album, though, which does contain a couple fragments of temple music.

Triumph Of The Spirit (Eidelman), while most of it may not sound particularly Jewish (and isn't), does contain singing in the only-mostly-dead Sephardic language "Ladino", a sort of Spanish-Hebrew hybrid, which is what we'll all be driving in 15 years.

"Never Surrender" from First Knight is based on the Shema, a major prayer taken from Torah.

"Mamushka" from The Addams Family is to my ear more Jewish than straight Russo-Ukrainian (Marc Shaiman's Jewish), despite the name ("mommy"), which never made sense anyway given the topic of the lyrics (brotherly love). Shaiman also sneaks in oompah & circus stylings. He's zany like that. I'm sure I know what you're saying, though: "That album sucks-- it didn't have the M.C. Hammer song!".


zuvqwyx3, May 15, 2006; 2:48 PM

The other day I was watching "Untamed Heart", which appropriately featured the Nat King Cole song "Nature Boy". One might never guess, but it's based (or at least the courts have ruled so) on a song written in Yiddish!

zuvqwyx3, June 11, 2006; 11:01 AM