Diaspora Yeshiva Band "Live on Mt Zion"

As I've noted before, Avraham Rosenblum of the Diaspora Yeshiva Band is pretty much the Mick Jagger of Jewish music. DYB, with Rosenblum at the helm, formed in the mid 1970's as the ba'al teshuva movement in the US was bringing newly Orthodox Jews to Israel. DYB helped this generation find their voice and helped create and popularize Jewish themed rock among religious Jews in Israel and the US. If you see a Jewish musician pick up a guitar and sing in Hebrew, their touchstones may be Sholomo Carlebach or Debbie Friedman. If the guitar gets plugged in ... the touchstone is DYB.

DYB recently released "Live at Mt. Zion," a fantastic video that's part concert video and part documentary. It captures the band at their prime in 1982 playing a concert on the roof of King David’s Tomb on Mt. Zion, Jerusalem. This is our history, gang. And it sounds great.

Diaspora Live on Mt. Zion DVD Trailer

For more info and to get a copy of the Live at Mt. Zion, check out the DYB website.

By the way, former DYB member Rudy Harris wrote a nice article on the impact of DYB which includes his "geneology" of Jewish rock. Check it out.