From Bouzouki to Belonging: The Sound of Greece Heard All The Way to Israel.

Greek music fills Israeli weddings, cafés, and stadiums — but why? Israel doesn’t just listen to Greek music; it needs it.
Listen to ‘Wandering Jews’ as we uncover how a “foreign” sound became a cultural safe harbor, revealing the Israeli search for identity and belonging. Through stories of exile, trauma, and survival, Greek music became a borrowed and reimagined sound of a Mediterranean home. What we listen to, it turns out, tells us who we want to be.

Links for Additional Readings:

Rosa Eskenazi at The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

Yehuda Poliker – ‘My Eyes,’ ‘Enayim Sheli’ – The Album

A.B. Yehoshua, ‘The Mediterranean Israeli Identity.’ At the European Institute of the Mediterranean