Moni Ovadia

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Italian actor, singer, musician and theatre artist known for incorporating Yiddish and Jewish musical traditions and for works addressing memory and the Shoah.

A deeply felt review of Moni Ovadia's album Dybbuk that frames the work as an act of memory and witness. The reviewer emphasizes the album's power to evoke Shoah memory through Yiddish and Jewish musical forms. The writing highlights tragedy, resistance, irony and cultural contamination in the music.