jewish brides - what songs are we NOT supposed to use for the ceremony?

bluegreen08 Posted: Jun 14, 2008 04:47 PM

jewish brides - what songs are we NOT supposed to use for the ceremony?

i know one is here comes the bride, what are the others so i know what to rule out while i'm searching?

is canon in d another?

xXxNovember08xXx Posted: Jun 14, 2008 04:49 PM

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REALLY!?

bluegreen08 Posted: Jun 14, 2008 05:10 PM

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Posted by xXxNovember08xXx

REALLY!?

i know here comes the bride was written by a nazi, and my rabbi stressed a million times not to use it but i forgot if there were others

lyss0908 Posted: Jun 14, 2008 05:56 PM

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I didnt know there were songs we couldn't use! Wow- i guess my rabbi would tell me that when we meet with him this summer.

EK52508 Posted: Jun 14, 2008 05:59 PM

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here comes a bride is a big no no but i used cannon d and my wedding party walked into classical music for the way out we left to sima tov mazel tov

Gigi08 Posted: Jun 14, 2008 06:19 PM

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Oh wow! I'm not Jewish, but I never heard that...interesting.

nycgirl79 Posted: Jun 14, 2008 07:42 PM

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Posted by bluegreen08

i know one is here comes the bride, what are the others so i know what to rule out while i'm searching?

is canon in d another?

Canon in D is fine (it's what I walked in to) - I guess Pachelbel wasn't an anti-semite! The only song my Rabbi mentioned as being a nono was the wedding march (here comes the bride).

oboediva31 Posted: Jun 14, 2008 10:11 PM

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It wasn't written by a nazi. Wagner was an anti-semite but he was around in the mid 1800's way before the nazis came into power.

Hitler did later name Wagner as the composer of the nazi party (after Wagner was long dead)

lyss0908 Posted: Jun 14, 2008 11:19 PM

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Posted by oboediva31

It wasn't written by a nazi. Wagner was an anti-semite but he was around in the mid 1800's way before the nazis came into power.

Hitler did later name Wagner as the composer of the nazi party (after Wagner was long dead)

wow, interesting fact, thank you!!

Mich0621 Posted: Jun 15, 2008 10:19 AM

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Here Comes the Bride is the only one I can think of. We had Canon in D for the processional.

oboediva31 Posted: Jun 15, 2008 11:23 AM

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I was a music major in college and I LOVE music history....I'm a big dork

alissa5517 Posted: Jun 15, 2008 11:33 AM

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WOW I never new this. I am glad I already did not want to walk to hear comes the bride.

[email protected] Posted: Aug 05, 2023 07:44 PM

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Pretty much anything by Wagner ( who wrote Hear Comes The Bride) is off limits. As I understand it, Wagner was played at Dachau Concentration Camp as part of an attempt to "reeducate" political prisoners by exposing them to "national music". He wrote at least one article decrying the Jewishness of music and arts in Germany and was a favorite of Hitler. So anything by him is generally thought to be in very bad taste.