“Sampling my grandparents” with Galeet Dardashti

28/05/2025 42 min Temporada 2 Episodio 2

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In this episode, Sarah Bunin Benor interviews Galeet Dardashti, an anthropologist, musician, composer, and a trailblazing and award-winning performer and scholar of Middle Eastern Jewish culture. Galeet also co-created the award-winning podcast “The Nightingale of Iran,” about her family's Persian musical legacy.Heritage Words - conversations about the words we inherit and the meaning they bring to our lives - is produced by the HUC Jewish Language Project and HUC Connect.Host and executive producer: Sarah Bunin BenorProducers and editors: Kyle Fingerhut, Avishay ArtsyVideo editor: Annabel NoarEditorial consultants: Annabel Noar, Hannah PressmanSpecial thanks to Galeet Dardashti for permission to use tracks from her album Monajat.Theme music: Maurice El Medioni’s French and Algerian Judeo-Arabic album “Cafe Oran,” featuring the Klezmatics’ David Krakauer and Frank London, courtesy of Piranha Records.

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