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Music Video: My Yiddishe Mama – Hip Hop Style!

In his debut music video, Meir Goldberg offers a new twist on the classic English-Yiddish song, My Yiddishe Mama, infusing the 1920’s musical gem both with his own talents and a flavor that manages to be both hip and touching.

Goldberg follows in the footsteps of some of the greatest musical talents of the last century, including Yossele Rosenblatt, Sophie Tucker, the Barry Sisters, Leo Fuld, Itzhak Perlman, Tom Jones and Neil Sedaka, tackling a song that is almost larger than life with his considerable vocal abilities.

A cantor at the Palm Beach Synagogue, Goldberg does justice in this updated tribute to mothers worldwide, joined by rappers Brooklyn Mentality.

The son of a cantor in the Israeli army, Goldberg grew up in Tel Aviv, surrounded by musical greats including Cantors Moshe Stern and David Bagley. He began his vocal training with his father and after relocating to Brooklyn in his teens, he continued his training at Juilliard.

More than just a cantor, Goldberg is drawn to many diverse styles of music and hopes to have the opportunity to share his musical versatility with music fans everywhere.

It was its broad appeal that drew Goldberg to My Yiddishe Mama, which has been translated into many languages including Spanish, Hungarian, Finnish, French, Polish and German.

“This is a universal song, sung by many of the greats,” explained Goldberg. “I loved the idea of the song and the way it was glorified in the video with the many modern updates.”

My Yiddishe Mama is a Sparks Next Production directed by Danny Finkelman and shot by Mauricio Arenas.

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37 Comments

    • YUCK! for a Yiddishe Bubby

      I agree. Why do nice Jewish boys have to lower themselves to street trash rap?
      to #6 We are better than that, and If you care at all about your mom, you wouldn’t break her heart like this!

    • yitzy

      My yidishe momma taught me “if u dont have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all”.

  • My mom was abusive

    My mom was abusive and caused nothing but agony for myself and the rest of my family. I owe nothing to her other than the fact that I was biologically born of her.

    I’m one individual who cannot relate to this song.

    • Yankel

      I’m sorry to hear that. There is counseling available if you would like to work on putting those traumatic events behind you. Let me know.

  • yiddisha mama

    whats with the goyishe behaviour of the children?
    makes no sense to me. ill stick to rosenblatt

    • Mendel

      Your opinion is not fact. In fact, your opinion is unwarranted and complete nonsense. Please refrain from being such a shmuck in the future.

  • Shoshanna Silcove

    Don’t like to see our religious Jewish kids aping Rappers.Very unrefined version of a classic song. IMHO. We don’t need this type of ‘Jewish’ music, it does nothing to elevate or inspire.

    • Mendel

      Listen up Shoshana. I’m sorry they don’t fit your criteria of “Inspiring Jewish Music” but what inspires you, doesn’t necessarily inspire everyone. We should be elevating every type of music, including rap.

  • Curious and curiouser

    Aping rap music and applying it to such a lovely old classic only demeans the singer. His voice is beautiful enough to stand on its own. No need to inject these street sounds. Such poor taste.

  • Anonymous

    Is this the new thing? To dress up like a goyishe rapper and move in a goyishe way? And a lot of the girls and women on this video aren’t tznius…

    • Anonymous

      I think the focus of the music video was portraying yiddishe mamas. Does is say from what sect or how religeous? i think the point was to use different women from different walks to portray the beauty of a yiddishe mama.

      As for the boys, im sure people have different opinions, but i think this is exactly what chassidus teaches us, to use our talents for good things.

  • Anonymous

    yasher co’ach to the boys in this video. I can see that they are on the path to good. to the negative comments above, take a look at the video again and see the positivity this video can do, if you don’t see any keep looking, there are young children out there who need us “Yiddishe mamas” to guide them on the right derech. They need our support not criticicism.

  • Great Song

    The rap enhances the song. It fuses the ancient with the modern. Great lyrics. The words flow nicely and the imagery is great. Kudos, BL and Benny Mizrachi!

  • Love it!

    The rap adds a fresh flavor to this old school music, and enables the young to connect
    the combination is brilliantly done!

  • Interesting...

    Bs”D

    It’s interesting how people always have to say negative things…

  • G-D

    I LOVE YOU MY CHILDREN YOU GUYS ARE DOING GOOD KEEP ON SPREADING LIGHT IN EVERY WAY! BLESSING AND SUCCESS!

  • A Momma

    I’m pushing middle age, and not surprisingly, rap isn’t music I grew up with or became particularly attached to. But I must say, as a mother of kids from pre-teens to late 20s it’s the kids singing this rap song that brought tears to my eyes.
    The story they told in their song is the painful story of so many kids today. They’ve taken negativity and turned it into something that is positive to them in their world. Imagine, they’re essentially saying that their mother is their anchor and that they want to do what they have to to make her happy. It’s nobody else’s business what they think will make their mother happy.
    If my child had faced adversity, moved away from yiddishkeit and then come back to me and sang that song, I cannot tell you how touched I would be and how hard I would cry.
    You kids go! There will always be people who are judgmental. You need to be the best you can be and focus on the positive like you did in this video. It makes me choke up just thinking about it again.

  • disgusted

    the rap doen’t flow, doesn’t make sense, doesn’t rhyme, its a yiddeshe song for heaven’s sake! lets leave the rapping for the goyim