Mordechai Ben David

Mordechai Werdyger (born 16 April 1951), Artist name: Mordechai Ben David ( Mordechai son of David) or MBD short, is a popular musician of Orthodox Judaism and is often referred to as the " King of Jewish Music ".

Werdyger has released numerous albums with Jewish music. His father David Werdyger, a popular Jewish singer and cantor, comes from Krakow and is one of the Schindler Jews. Werdyger combines traditional Hasidic melodies in his songs with contemporary pop.

Werdyger lives in Sea Gate, Brooklyn.

Song edits

Some of the songs of MDB are arrangements of famous non-Jewish songs.

  • Lichtiger Shabbos on the album Just One Shabbos ( Yiddish under the title on Solid MBD ) is an adaptation of Close Every Door To Me from the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
  • Yidden on Jerusalem: Not For Sale used the title Genghis Khan of the German pop band Dschinghis Khan.
  • Dear Father on Yerushalayim Our Home ( under the title "Daddy Dear" on The English Collection) used the title Littlechild, have interpreted the many singers ins. Cab Calloway and his daughter in 1956; this song is in turn based on a French song.

Discography

  • Mordechai Ben David Sings Original Chassidic Nigunim (1973 )
  • Hineni (1974 )
  • Neshama Soul (1975 )
  • I'd Rather Pray and Sing (1977 )
  • Vechol Maminim - Songs of Rosh Hashana (1979 )
  • Moshiach Is Coming Soon ( 1980)
  • Memories ( 1981)
  • I Gevart Hob (1982 )
  • Mordechai Ben David Live (1981 )
  • Just One Shabbos (1983 )
  • Around the Year Vol 1 (1984 )
  • Hold On (1984 )
  • Let My People Go (1985 )
  • Jerusalem Not for Sale (1986 )
  • MBD and Friends (1987 )
  • Jerusalem Our Home - Yom Tov Lekovod (1988 )
  • Siman Tov and Keitzad ( Singles ) ( 1989)
  • The Double Album ( 1990)
  • Solid MBD (1990)
  • Moshiach, Moshiach, Moshiach (1992 )
  • Live in Jerusalem ( 1989)
  • Tomid BeSimcha - Always Happy (1994 )
  • Special Moments (1994 )
  • Once upon a Niggun (1996 )
  • Chevron Forever ( single) (1996 )
  • The English Collection ( 1998)
  • We Are One (1999)
  • Maaminim (2001)
  • Kumzits (2003)
  • Nachamu Ami (2004)
  • Oorah (Single ) (2005 )
  • Efshar Letaken (2006)
  • Yiddish Collection ( 2007)
  • Anovim Anovim [Single ] (2008)
  • Oorah [Single ] (2008)
  • Levado - Mishpacha (Single ) (2008 )
  • Kulam Ahuvim (2009)
  • Platinum Collection (2009)

In addition, MBD appears on many other albums, including:

  • Father & Sons Biglal Avos (1984 )
  • Jerusalem
  • Torah
  • Hallel
  • Simcha
  • 25 Years Of Jewish Music (1988 )
  • Yeedle - Together ( 1993)
  • 3 Generations (1994 )
  • Yeedle - Laasos Retzon Avicha (1995 )
  • Best Of The Best 1 (1997)
  • Solid Gold Volume 1 (1997)
  • Solid Gold Volume 2 (1998)
  • Lev Vanefesh II ( 1998)
  • Mona 3 (1998)
  • Solid Gold Volume 3 (1999)
  • Hamishorririm (1999)
  • Ken Burgess - I'll Never Walk Alone In The Desert (2000)
  • All Star Collection ( 2000)
  • The Vocal Version (2001)
  • Best Of The Best 2 (2002)
  • Yeedle - IV (2002)
  • Mona 4 (2003)
  • Sheves Achim Shabbos In Mezibuz (2004)
  • Ken Burgess - Melech (2005)
  • Brand New (2005)
  • Shabbos With The Werdygers 1 (2006 )
  • Yeedle - Lev Echad (2008)
  • Hameorerim (2008)
  • Shabbos With The Werdygers 2 (2010)
  • Meimka Dlipa: From the Depth of My Heart ( 2010)

Swell

  • Musician
  • Person (Judaism )
  • Hasidism
  • Jewish Music
  • Born in 1951
  • Man
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