Mordechai Ben David

Mordechai Ben David

Mordechai Werdyger (born April 16, 1951 ), stage name: Mordechai Ben David (Mordechai son of David) or MBD for short , is a popular musician of Orthodox Judaism and is often referred to as the "King of Jewish Music".

Werdyger has released numerous albums with Jewish music. His father David Werdyger, a popular Jewish singer and cantor , comes from Krakow and is one of the Schindler Jews . Werdyger combines traditional Hasidic melodies with contemporary pop in his songs .

Werdyger lives in Sea Gate, Brooklyn .

Song edits

Some of MDB's songs are adaptations of popular non-Jewish songs.

• Lichtiger Shabbos on the album Just One Shabbos , (under the title Yiddish on Solid MBD ) is an adaptation of Close Every Door To Me from the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber .
• Yidden auf Jerusalem: Not For Sale uses the title Dschinghis Khan from the German pop group Dschinghis Khan .
• Father Dear on Yerushalayim Our Home (under the title "Daddy Dear" on The English Collection ) uses the title Little Child , which many singers have interpreted, ins. Cab Calloway and his daughter in 1956; this song is again based on a French song.

Discography

• Mordechai Ben David Sings Original Chassidic Nigunim (1973)
• Hineni (1974)
• Neshama Soul (1975)
• I'd Rather Pray and Sing (1977)
• Vechol Maminim - Songs of Rosh Hashana (1979)
• Moshiach Is Coming Soon (1980)
• Memories (1981)
• I Hob Gevart (1982)
• Mordechai Ben David Live (1981)
• Just One Shabbos (1983)
• Around the Year Vol. 1 (1984)
• Hold On (1984)
• Let My People Go (1985)
• Jerusalem Not for Sale (1986)
• MBD and Friends (1987)
• Jerusalem Our Home - Lekovod Yom Tov (1988)
• Siman Tov and Keitzad (Singles) (1989)
• The Double Album (1990)
• Solid MBD (1990)
• Moshiach, Moshiach, Moshiach (1992)
• Live in Jerusalem (1989)
• Tomid BeSimcha - Always Happy (1994)
• Special Moments (1994)
• Once upon a Niggun (1996)
• Chevron Forever (single) (1996)
• An Od Milvado (1997)
• The English Collection (1998)
• We Are One (1999)
• Maaminim (2001)
• Kumzits (2003)
• Nachamu Ami (2004)
• Oorah (single) (2005)
• Efshar Letaken (2006)
• Yiddish Collection (2007)
• Anovim Anovim [Single] (2008)
• Oorah [single] (2008)
• Levado - Mishpacha (Single) (2008)
• Kulam Ahuvim (2009)
• Platinum Collection (2009)

MBD also appears on numerous other albums, including:

• Father & Sons Biglal Avos (1984)
• Jerusalem
• Torah
• Hallel
• Simcha
• 25 Years Of Jewish Music (1988)
• Yeedle - Together (1993)
• 3 Generations (1994)
• Yeedle - Laasos Retzon Avicha (1995)
• Best Of The Best 1 (1997)
• Solid Gold Volume 1 (1997)
• Solid Gold Volume 2 (1998)
• Lev Vanefesh II (1998)
• Mona 3 (1998)
• Solid Gold Volume 3 (1999)
• Hamishorririm (1999)
• Ken Burgess - I'll Never Walk Alone In The Desert (2000)
• All Star Collection (2000)
• The Vocal Version (2001)
• Best Of The Best 2 (2002)
• Yeedle - IV (2002)
• Mona 4 (2003)
• Sheves Achim Shabbos In Mezibuz (2004)
• Ken Burgess - Melech (2005)
• Brand New (2005)
• Shabbos With The Werdygers 1 (2006)
• Yeedle - Lev Echad (2008)
• Hameorerim (2008)
• Shabbos With The Werdygers 2 (2010)
• Meimka Dlipa: From the Depth of My Heart (2010)

Web links

• Literature by and about Mordechai Ben David in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Washington Post, Nov. 7, 2005
2. ↑ Israel Insider, September 24, 2002 ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Musical Transitions ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Adapted from Discoveries - May 1995, by Christopher Papa