Jalda Rebling

Jalda Rebling (born 1951 in Amsterdam)[1] is a German hazzan.

A year after birth, she and her parents moved to East Germany in 1952.[2] Her parents survived the Holocaust, and Rebling's mother and aunt, Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper, were the first to tell Otto Frank of his daughters' deaths.[2][3] Her mother Rebekka Brilleslijper, also known as Lin Jaldati, was a well-known singer of Yiddish music while her father, Eberhard Rebling, was a musicologist. Her sister Kathinka Rebling is also a musicologist.[4] In 1987, Rebling helped organize a Yiddish culture festival in Germany, which occurred every year into the 1990s.[5] Rebling herself eventually became one of the best known Yiddish singers in united postwar Germany.[5] She also acted in Yiddish at the Hackischer Hoftheater.[6]

In 1979, the Anne Frank Kindergarten in Berlin had Rebling and her mother perform for the fiftieth anniversary of Anne Frank’s birth; the production was shown on GDR TV and sold as a record, and it became the family’s signature production on tour.[2] They performed it at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and Rebling noted that while “we sang in Yiddish, there was also a German song by Paul Dessau. In fact, we brought the first two pieces of German-language music into Yad Vashem.” [2]

Rebling wrote "Yiddish Culture — a Soul Survivor of East Germany," which was included in the book Speaking Out: Jewish Voices from United Germany, published in 1995.[7][8]

In 2007, she became the first openly lesbian cantor ordained by the Jewish Renewal movement.[4] That year, she also became the first woman to lead the High Holiday services in Lund, Sweden.[9] She also led the first egalitarian service in the traditional Jewish community of Hamburg, Germany.[10] In a Norwegian synagogue of Trondheim, she became the first Jewish female cantor who (together with Rabbi Lynn Feinberg) led Shabbat Services and read the Torah in public.[9]

In 2009 and 2011, she performed during the Program in Jewish Studies’ Week of Jewish Culture at the University of Colorado, Boulder.[11][12]

She is now the cantor (and one of the founders) of Ohel Hachidusch, "The Tent of Renewal", Berlin's Jewish Renewal community.[2][13] She lives in Germany with her partner, Anna Adam, and three sons.[4]

Discography
  • Ir me quiero, 1988
  • Di goldene pawe, 1991
  • An alter nign, 1997
  • Juden in Deutschland 1250 - 1750, 1993
  • Juden im Mittelalter - aus Sepharad und Ashkenas, 1999

References
  1. Ostow, Robin (1989-06-18). Jews in Contemporary East Germany: The Children of Moses in the Land of Marx. ISBN 9781349101542.
  2. David Shneer. "In Front of the Iron Curtain". Yiddish Book Center. Archived from the original on 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
  3. "In Berlin, stories of the shtetl - Los Angeles Times". Articles.latimes.com. 1994-11-20. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
  4. "New Female Cantor in Germany Came to Renewal After Journey; JTA - Jewish & Israel News". JTA. 2007-01-22. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
  5. Gruber, Ruth Ellen (2002-01-15). Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe - Ruth Ellen Gruber - Google Books. ISBN 9780520920927. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
  6. Lehrman, Leonard (24 Oct 1995). "ljlehrman.artists-in-residence.com/articles/aufbau6.html". ljlehrman.artists-in-residence.com. Retrieved 24 Aug 2022.
  7. Neumann, Klaus (2000-12-21). Shifting Memories: The Nazi Past in the New Germany - Klaus Neumann - Google Books. ISBN 9780472087105. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
  8. Stern, Susan (January 1995). Speaking Out: Jewish Voices from United Germany (9781883695088): Susan Stern: Books. ISBN 1883695082.
  9. "Jalda Rebling". Children of the Wall. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
  10. rebgoldie. "Philadelphia Jewish Voice:: Hanukkah Miracles: Germany". Blog.pjvoice.com. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
  11. "Jalda Rebling Rocks Old Main Yiddish-Style". Boulderjewishnews.org. 2011-01-13. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
  12. "Past Visiting Scholars & Artists | Program in Jewish Studies | University of Colorado Boulder". Jewishstudies.colorado.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-11-10. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
  13. designkind, Claudia Kaase (2005-02-09). "Ohel Hachidusch". Ohel Hachidusch. Archived from the original on 2012-07-31. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
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