Germans sing Hebrew better than most
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
The horrendous attack on a British synagogue on Yom Kippur pushed me to relisten to a release of Hebrew choral music by the vocal ensemble of Southwest German Radio. The album is a mix of traditional songs in contemporary settings, alongside original works by formidable composers …
Continues here.
And in The Critic.
Their conductor is from Israel. I assume that he taught them the correct pronounciation.
It’s because German resh and ayin are like Hebrew. (I’m armored for a wave of righteous indignation.)
Nono, that makes total sense. Yiddish is basically German and strongly influenced the pronunciation of modern Hebrew.