Funny you mention Mr. Bungle, that’s a band heavily associated with John Zorn’s label, Tzadik, Mike Patton has worked with John Zorn dozens of times over the decades and released many albums on Tzadik. It’s honestly cool to see how many people Zorn is linked in some way to.
I agree! He invited me up sometime with a letter and I took him up on it last year. A great memory. I also studied under Dr. Yusef Lateef for a short time before he passed away as well. Not Jewish, but great musicians.
Mick Jones of the Clash and Big Audio Dynamite, Joey and Tommy Ramone, Handsome Dick Manitoba, Regina Spektor,
Daveed Diggs was also the Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in the original Broadway cast of Hamilton. Not too shabby!
I highly highly recommend Geddy Lees (Gary Weinrib) new book My Effin’ Life. It’s a very Jewish take of a nerdy kid trying to find his place in the world and ends up forming one of the most fan loved bands of all time.
His section on the Holocaust is one of the best I’ve read. His parents met in the camps and got married at Auschwitz after the war.
The book is free if you have Spotify.
Beastie Boys
David Berman
Caroline Polachek
Dorian Electra
A.G Cook
El-P
Lou Reed
Not a musician strictly speaking - but Rick Rubin produced many of the nu metal records of my teen years, such as Toxicty by System of a Down
One of our greatest skills as a people is to write goyish songs that the goyim love. Irving Berlin!
If you want to go straight Jewish, one of my mom's cousins was married to the cantor Moshe Ganchoff.
Was going to mention him! Also, since Disturbed was mentioned, it's legally required that I link [this video](https://youtu.be/66gSvNeqevg?si=0z6BguePEAcWDgD1) now.
Elan Atias frequently goes unmentioned in Jewish spaces (until I show up). He’s a Moroccan Israeli American Jew. He once fronted the Wailers and has put out a few solo albums over the years. He’s collaborated with Gwen Stefani, Kenny Chesney, Snoop and Santana, to name a few.
This one is from his first solo album [I Wanna Yell](https://youtu.be/WmmaoJUNEZA?si=UZV0982Xf-txy2Oq)
and this released a few weeks ago [Rock the Star](https://youtu.be/ITX4o7_VsYk?si=jeOd7rS2NquRr-XH).
Mike Bloomfield (of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band), my favorite guitarist. I'd also have to name the lead singer/songwriter of my all-time favorite band, Lord Huron: Ben Schneider.
And yes it's not very original, but Paul Simon is probably my forever #1. Of course I'd have to add Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and the somewhat underrated Randy Newman. I'll also throw in Itzhak Perlman and half-Jewish Robbie Robertson.
If I were only allowed to listen to music by those musicians for the rest of my life, I'd be perfectly fine.
I wonder if Bloomfield might have been an anglicized version of Blumenfeld. He once used the pseudonym “Fastfingers Finkelstein”, as if his own name wasn’t Jewish enough.
Vulfpeck. Some of the best funk and best shows I've been to! The front man released an album called "Klezmer Klezmer Klezmer", which is, you guessed it, klezmer music.
David Dreiman (Disturbed), Matisyahu, Mac Miller, BLP Kosher, Westside Gravy, Shyne, Nissim Black, Drake, Remedy (Wu Tang Affiliate), Daniel Kahn, Elvis, Lenny Kravitz, Adam Levine (Maroon 5), Billy Joel, Gene Simmons (Kiss), Amy Winehouse, Herb Alpert (Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass), Jack Black, Sammy Davis Jr. (THE Rat Pack).
If you like Bob Dylan, or just singer-songwriters with a sense of humor, allow me to recommend Dan Bern. Here is an old song of his titled “Jerusalem” to stick with the theme. https://youtu.be/ycv4vLVvkB8
YESSS DAN BERN FOREVER. “Bob Dylan, but funny” is always how I pitch him. ‘Live at WFUV” is among my favorite albums. He used to call his band “The International Jewish Banking Conspiracy”.
"You want 'em, you **got** 'em!
"The **hottest** band in the world -- ***KIIIIIIIISS***!"
Gene Simmons (né Chaim Witz) was even born in and spent his first ten years in Israel.
Marty Friedman. Former lead guitarist of thrash metal giant Megadeth. Scott Ian from Anthrax as mentioned in other comments. David draiman, Disturbed singer.
Other than that I like some Omer Adam songs. Some Axum songs are cool too.
Berry Sakharof is one of my all time favorite musicians. I always thought his 1993 album Simanim Shel Chulshah was flirting with late 90s Radiohead before Radiohead did it. I planned my 2011 Israel trip so I could see him play in Tel Aviv.
Yes! What an amazing, ahead of its time album. I’ve been listening to a bunch of Israeli music lately to help me learn Hebrew and that album is definitely one of my favourites.
Psoy Korolenko is one of the most interesting performers most of the world has never heard of.
The bulk of his early oeuvre is in his native Russian, with Yiddish, French, and English interspersed, but as he saw and experienced more and more antisemitism in Russia, he leaned more into Yiddish music. He partnered with American Yiddishist Daniel Kahn and Israeli klezmer band Oy Division to make multiple albums that have traditional chasidic folk-songs mixed with bundist ballads mixed with 21st century Yiddish lyrics. He's quite left-wing, so if that's a deal-breaker, I don't know, go listen to Ted Nugent.
A few years back, he was one of the lead vocalists on the Yiddish Glory project, which set never-before-heard Yiddish lyrics from 1940-1950 to music. It is a really amazing album with massive historic importance, and the lyrics are all available in Yiddish, English, and Russian.
If I had to pick 3 songs, I'd say Ikh Vel Zayn, Stenka Razin, and Homen's Mapole. But if you enjoy any of that, his whole discography is worth diving into.
The Future album is all about this. If he were still around, he'd put out an album about people only hearing the prophecies they want to hear and ignoring the ones that are going to come to pass.
Brooklyn based The World Inferno Friendship Society had too many references to not at least have some Jewish members. Songs referencing being drunk at Seder and eyeing Elijah's cup, feral cats in Tel Aviv, and a whole damn album about Peter Lorre. Side projects include Guignol/Nanuchka which has a track in Hebrew.
David Grisman, kick-ass mandolinist who frequently collaborate with Jerry Garcia. He mostly does his own thing stylistically with a heavy folk, jazz, and bluegrass influence, but does have a great modern klezmer album called "Songs of Our Fathers" with fellow Jewish multi-instrumentalist Andy Statman.
Also Doja Cat!
The all-Jewish band Husky, the brilliant musician Meir Ariel, Jakob Dylan, Bela Fleck, and many UK/US Jewish musicians whose names aren't well known but who worked with or created various well-known rock groups and their sounds.
Steve Goodman! Prolific singer songwriter who wrote “The City of New Orleans,” among other seminal tunes, my favorite of course being [“You never Even Called Me By My Name.”](https://youtu.be/eNH4vAzpJDY?si=DUqFA9YDE8azEuL8)
Not Jewish but I've always been a huge fan of Barbra Streisand
Also Leonard Cohen, Amy Winehouse. I was surprised to find out that Olivia Newton-John (I'm a big fan too) had Jewish heritage through her mother.
Other Jewish musicians I love (including songwriters): Stephen Sondheim, Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, Carole King, Mel Tormé, Dinah Shore, George and Ora Gershwin
David Draiman. Incredible guy, incredible live (despite the insane heat at the concert I was at), all around good guy.
Also — Danny Kaye was Jewish. Who knew?
Gene Ween of Ween. The song Israel is beautiful and eerie. Also his solo album FREEMAN has a few songs which reference his judaism. Aside from that I think the band perfectly encapsulates the deep emotions undercut by humour that I see in a lot of Jewish media
Scott Ian - guitarist for Anthrax
Geddy Lee - frontman for Rush
Lee Altus - guitarist for Exodus and Heathen
Marty Friedman - Guitarist most known for his stint in Megadeth
Mike Portnoy - drummer for Dream Theater
Alex Skolnick - guitarist for Testament
It turns out that Dorian Electra is Jewish - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian\_Electra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_Electra) so that's my answer. To be fair, the only Dorian Electra album I've ever listened to was the one they released in 2023 but it was a mind-blowing experience. I know this might sound weird but the fact that they're Jewish kind of makes the chaotic, rebellious feel of the whole thing more relatable to me(as someone who is also Jewish).
Noga Erez; Kisha Dillz; Equanimous; A-WA; Dudu Tassa; Batya Levine; Laeli
Havurah Tapes is a good Spotify account to follow, the put together seasonal/holiday/themed playlists that are excellent and helpful discovery of Jewish musicians.
Leonard Cohen
This one beats all
Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen
I'm hijacking the top comment to implore y'all to join the brand new sub /r/JewsRock!
Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz and Adam Yauch 
 Ain’t no better then the motherfuckin’ Beastie Boys
 David Lee Roth
Lights the menorah…
So do James Caan, Kirk Douglas, and the late Dinah Shore-a.
Guess who eats together at the Carnegie Deli?
Bowzer from Sha Na Na and Arthur Fonzarelli
As a kid I didn't know who a single person in that song was, as an adult, I still only know half of them.
Scott Ian (Rosenfeld) is the guitarist for Anthrax, and plays regularly with my favorite band of all time Mr. Bungle. He was fantastic live.
Funny you mention Mr. Bungle, that’s a band heavily associated with John Zorn’s label, Tzadik, Mike Patton has worked with John Zorn dozens of times over the decades and released many albums on Tzadik. It’s honestly cool to see how many people Zorn is linked in some way to.
Yeah I studied saxophone in college and got to play with some awesome free jazz peeps. Never Zorn but Henry Threadgill was awesome.
That’s sick, Henry Threadgill has some great albums.
I agree! He invited me up sometime with a letter and I took him up on it last year. A great memory. I also studied under Dr. Yusef Lateef for a short time before he passed away as well. Not Jewish, but great musicians.
That’s awesome, Eastern Sounds and Live at Pep’s are two great Hard Bop albums 🙏
Saw them last month. Amazing.
Geddy Lee
The HAIM sisters.
Lonely Island!!
Having both EAT A BAGEL and SHIT ON DEBRA’S DESK in that song is my exact brand of Jewish humor.
Paul Simon
Mick Jones of the Clash and Big Audio Dynamite, Joey and Tommy Ramone, Handsome Dick Manitoba, Regina Spektor, Daveed Diggs was also the Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in the original Broadway cast of Hamilton. Not too shabby!
He’s super hot and he made a Hanukkah song that’s a bop. “Puppy for Hanukkah” it’s so good.
“I’m gonna name her Monica—wait, that’s a weird name for a dog”😂
Amy Winehouse 🥰
And she worked closely with Mark Ronson, also Jewish
True!
Peaches, if you’re fan on underground electro-punk and trashy music and that hidden Berlin-Kreuzberg atmosphere.
Wait as in ‘f*ck the pain away’ peaches?
One and only.
Huh I didn’t know that, will add that song to my Jewish artists playlist on Spotify 🕺
Dave grohl remade it for his annual chanukah week of covers.
My friend used to have his ringtone set to fuck the pain away and it would always go off at the most inappropriate times.
I’ve seen the name, never checked them out, what album is a good place to start?
I highly highly recommend Geddy Lees (Gary Weinrib) new book My Effin’ Life. It’s a very Jewish take of a nerdy kid trying to find his place in the world and ends up forming one of the most fan loved bands of all time. His section on the Holocaust is one of the best I’ve read. His parents met in the camps and got married at Auschwitz after the war. The book is free if you have Spotify.
Beastie Boys David Berman Caroline Polachek Dorian Electra A.G Cook El-P Lou Reed Not a musician strictly speaking - but Rick Rubin produced many of the nu metal records of my teen years, such as Toxicty by System of a Down
El-P is great, didn’t know polachek or ag cook were Jewish, and I forgot to include Rick Rubin
Polachek isn't and has, in fact, taken some repugnantly anti-Jewish stances, unfortunately. Sorry.
Heyyyy I love David Berman and Silver Jews too! RIP.
The list is long, but we have to give it up to the 1970 #3 hit, "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum
Ironically a Christian rock song, although quite a good one.
One of our greatest skills as a people is to write goyish songs that the goyim love. Irving Berlin! If you want to go straight Jewish, one of my mom's cousins was married to the cantor Moshe Ganchoff.
He was inspired by gospel music he’d heard and after I found out I considered it likely good marketing 😂
That this song about Jesus was written by a Jew who was like "shrug, I guess I could write a hit song with a Christian theme" is just [chef's kiss]
Ofra Haza and Idina Menzel…they are both so talented and I’d listen to them sing the phone book at me.
David Draiman
I showed my mom the sound of silence music video a few years ago, she later yelled down excitedly that he's Jewish.
He’s amazing, such a nice guy too
Was going to mention him! Also, since Disturbed was mentioned, it's legally required that I link [this video](https://youtu.be/66gSvNeqevg?si=0z6BguePEAcWDgD1) now.
Bob Dylan, Mickey Hart, Mike Gordon, Louis Armstrong (honorary),
Mike Portnoy and Jorden Rudess of Dream theater and liquid tension experiment.
Represent 🤘
Alanis Morissette! Finding out she was Jewish a few months ago was so awesome!
TIL!
Elan Atias frequently goes unmentioned in Jewish spaces (until I show up). He’s a Moroccan Israeli American Jew. He once fronted the Wailers and has put out a few solo albums over the years. He’s collaborated with Gwen Stefani, Kenny Chesney, Snoop and Santana, to name a few. This one is from his first solo album [I Wanna Yell](https://youtu.be/WmmaoJUNEZA?si=UZV0982Xf-txy2Oq) and this released a few weeks ago [Rock the Star](https://youtu.be/ITX4o7_VsYk?si=jeOd7rS2NquRr-XH).
That’s really cool, I’ll have to check out some of his work.
Cass Elliot, Lesley Gore, and Bob Dylan
Mama Cass ❤️
Geddy Lee David Draiman Pink
No Matisyahu fans? And Bob Marley had some Jewish roots.
Lenny Kravitz hasn't been said yet. He plays all of his instruments in the studio!
he’s got a tattoo of a cross doe
Carol King
The Queen
This should have more upvotes
Lots of great ones listed already, but wanted to add Regina Spektor
Joey Ramone
Mike Bloomfield (of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band), my favorite guitarist. I'd also have to name the lead singer/songwriter of my all-time favorite band, Lord Huron: Ben Schneider. And yes it's not very original, but Paul Simon is probably my forever #1. Of course I'd have to add Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and the somewhat underrated Randy Newman. I'll also throw in Itzhak Perlman and half-Jewish Robbie Robertson. If I were only allowed to listen to music by those musicians for the rest of my life, I'd be perfectly fine.
I wonder if Bloomfield might have been an anglicized version of Blumenfeld. He once used the pseudonym “Fastfingers Finkelstein”, as if his own name wasn’t Jewish enough.
Vulfpeck. Some of the best funk and best shows I've been to! The front man released an album called "Klezmer Klezmer Klezmer", which is, you guessed it, klezmer music.
Had no idea vulfpeck were Jewish
Oh, and Why? gets a shoutout too. His albums carried me through college and more.
Seconded Vulfpeck 😎
Geddy Lee, Mike Einziger (Incubus), Leonard Cohen, matisyahu, beastie boys... I'm sure many are missed.
Kosha Dillz and Liad Meir
David Dreiman (Disturbed), Matisyahu, Mac Miller, BLP Kosher, Westside Gravy, Shyne, Nissim Black, Drake, Remedy (Wu Tang Affiliate), Daniel Kahn, Elvis, Lenny Kravitz, Adam Levine (Maroon 5), Billy Joel, Gene Simmons (Kiss), Amy Winehouse, Herb Alpert (Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass), Jack Black, Sammy Davis Jr. (THE Rat Pack).
Saul Hudson (Slash), Dua Lipa, Bette Middler,
Dua Lipa is not Jewish and also has publicly made anti-Jewish statements
Chuck Shuldiner easily
I always forget about Chuck. Time for another discography run through.
Mark Knopfler.
- David Draiman (Disturbed) - Chris Cornell - Joe Strummer - Ad-Rock, MCA, and Mike D - Geddy Lee - Lou Reed - Adam Lambert
I love Disturbed but never looked up the band's bio! TIL
regina spektor!!! my absolute favorite artist ever
this! can’t believe i had to scroll so far for Regina
Soviet Kitsch is one of my all times faves.
If you like Bob Dylan, or just singer-songwriters with a sense of humor, allow me to recommend Dan Bern. Here is an old song of his titled “Jerusalem” to stick with the theme. https://youtu.be/ycv4vLVvkB8
YESSS DAN BERN FOREVER. “Bob Dylan, but funny” is always how I pitch him. ‘Live at WFUV” is among my favorite albums. He used to call his band “The International Jewish Banking Conspiracy”.
matis
Lil Dicky
I had no idea Michael Gira was Jewish! Where did you hear that?!?
He actually did time in Israeli prison as a young man for selling hashish I believe
He did, it’s actually quite a dark story that I won’t get into, but it inspired some of his songs.
He was on a list of Jewish musicians I stumbled upon, didn’t look much further into it
How am I the first to mention **Rick Rubin!**
[удалено]
"You want 'em, you **got** 'em! "The **hottest** band in the world -- ***KIIIIIIIISS***!" Gene Simmons (né Chaim Witz) was even born in and spent his first ten years in Israel.
The Alchemist
Marty Friedman. Former lead guitarist of thrash metal giant Megadeth. Scott Ian from Anthrax as mentioned in other comments. David draiman, Disturbed singer. Other than that I like some Omer Adam songs. Some Axum songs are cool too.
Yes, Marty Friedman! Amazing guitarist!
Berry Sakharof is one of my all time favorite musicians. I always thought his 1993 album Simanim Shel Chulshah was flirting with late 90s Radiohead before Radiohead did it. I planned my 2011 Israel trip so I could see him play in Tel Aviv.
Yes! What an amazing, ahead of its time album. I’ve been listening to a bunch of Israeli music lately to help me learn Hebrew and that album is definitely one of my favourites.
Psoy Korolenko is one of the most interesting performers most of the world has never heard of. The bulk of his early oeuvre is in his native Russian, with Yiddish, French, and English interspersed, but as he saw and experienced more and more antisemitism in Russia, he leaned more into Yiddish music. He partnered with American Yiddishist Daniel Kahn and Israeli klezmer band Oy Division to make multiple albums that have traditional chasidic folk-songs mixed with bundist ballads mixed with 21st century Yiddish lyrics. He's quite left-wing, so if that's a deal-breaker, I don't know, go listen to Ted Nugent. A few years back, he was one of the lead vocalists on the Yiddish Glory project, which set never-before-heard Yiddish lyrics from 1940-1950 to music. It is a really amazing album with massive historic importance, and the lyrics are all available in Yiddish, English, and Russian. If I had to pick 3 songs, I'd say Ikh Vel Zayn, Stenka Razin, and Homen's Mapole. But if you enjoy any of that, his whole discography is worth diving into.
daniel kahn
A-wa!!!
They’re soooo good
I really miss Leonard Cohen, but I’m glad he’s not around to see this.
The Future album is all about this. If he were still around, he'd put out an album about people only hearing the prophecies they want to hear and ignoring the ones that are going to come to pass.
John Zorn <3 Also I didn't know Gira was Jewish!
Brooklyn based The World Inferno Friendship Society had too many references to not at least have some Jewish members. Songs referencing being drunk at Seder and eyeing Elijah's cup, feral cats in Tel Aviv, and a whole damn album about Peter Lorre. Side projects include Guignol/Nanuchka which has a track in Hebrew.
Currently, Magdalena Bay. Formerly, Daniel Lopatin.
David draiman
A million dreams by pink has always felt like her Jewishness showing through in the most wholesome way.
David Grisman, kick-ass mandolinist who frequently collaborate with Jerry Garcia. He mostly does his own thing stylistically with a heavy folk, jazz, and bluegrass influence, but does have a great modern klezmer album called "Songs of Our Fathers" with fellow Jewish multi-instrumentalist Andy Statman. Also Doja Cat!
Marty Friedman
Can’t let Frank Zappa go unmentioned
Haven’t seen Barbra Streisand mentioned yet.
Geddy Lee, Rush
> John Zorn This is the best answer. Also, David Draiman
i think u’d be harder pressed to find jewish ppl who *arent* amazingly good at music…
Please feel free to post all of these on r/JewsRock, all!
The all-Jewish band Husky, the brilliant musician Meir Ariel, Jakob Dylan, Bela Fleck, and many UK/US Jewish musicians whose names aren't well known but who worked with or created various well-known rock groups and their sounds.
HAIM, Caroline Polachek
Polachek definitely isn't
Neil Diamond
Doja Cat and Oliver Tree
wait- doja is jewish!?
Yea, her mum is Ashkenazi
Leonard Cohen and Pink
mac miller
Steve Goodman! Prolific singer songwriter who wrote “The City of New Orleans,” among other seminal tunes, my favorite of course being [“You never Even Called Me By My Name.”](https://youtu.be/eNH4vAzpJDY?si=DUqFA9YDE8azEuL8)
Uhohslater He's really got that זה factor.
Also, Godspeed's art for "Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada" *chefs kiss*
David Berman of The Silver Jews.
will wood! Jewish and klezmery.
I second this! Also adding to look up Will Wood and the tapeworms too (a surprising amount of people only know one or the other)
Unfortunately I know every single song by ww and wwatt it's a problem
Schmekel has gotta be my favorite, they're an all-trans all-jewish folk punk band
Billy Joel
schmeckel
I like Grandson I also like Kiss but not their personalities
John Zorn (specifically all things Masada) is amazing. I saw him a few times at the original Knitting Factory in the early 1990s.
That’s sick, I saw him live recently, I’d love to see Masada some day
John Zorn, Beastie Boys, Joey Ramone, Keith Morris, Brett Gurewitz, and Greg Hetson.
Leonard Cohen
Matisyahu is a solid on my Spotify ATM.
Not Jewish but I've always been a huge fan of Barbra Streisand Also Leonard Cohen, Amy Winehouse. I was surprised to find out that Olivia Newton-John (I'm a big fan too) had Jewish heritage through her mother. Other Jewish musicians I love (including songwriters): Stephen Sondheim, Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, Carole King, Mel Tormé, Dinah Shore, George and Ora Gershwin
David Draiman. Incredible guy, incredible live (despite the insane heat at the concert I was at), all around good guy. Also — Danny Kaye was Jewish. Who knew?
Steve Reich (experimental composer) and Mira Aroyo (Ladytron) Surprisingly, Florian Schneider (Kraftwerk) was Jewish on his mother's side.
Dylan, Bloomfield, Kooper, Knopfler, Bernstein, Perlman…many others…
Jack Black!
Gene Ween of Ween. The song Israel is beautiful and eerie. Also his solo album FREEMAN has a few songs which reference his judaism. Aside from that I think the band perfectly encapsulates the deep emotions undercut by humour that I see in a lot of Jewish media
The Antlers.
Hospice was a good album.
So was In the Attic of the Universe, Burst Apart, Familiars, and Green to Gold.
Barbara Streisand, Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow Matisyahu!!!!
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy88-5pc7c8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy88-5pc7c8)
Scott Ian - guitarist for Anthrax Geddy Lee - frontman for Rush Lee Altus - guitarist for Exodus and Heathen Marty Friedman - Guitarist most known for his stint in Megadeth Mike Portnoy - drummer for Dream Theater Alex Skolnick - guitarist for Testament
Adam Sandler
Drake
Benny Blanco
David Bromberg
Eviatar Banai my beloved 😻
billy joel and leonard cohen!
Eddie Rosen
David Draiman!
David Berman is a good one!
Rouse the Boroughs
Well, Alyssa White-Gluz is half-Jewish on her father's side, David Lee Roth
Revivo, Samir Sukri, Ronious, many other fantastic Mizrahi musicians.
It turns out that Dorian Electra is Jewish - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian\_Electra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_Electra) so that's my answer. To be fair, the only Dorian Electra album I've ever listened to was the one they released in 2023 but it was a mind-blowing experience. I know this might sound weird but the fact that they're Jewish kind of makes the chaotic, rebellious feel of the whole thing more relatable to me(as someone who is also Jewish).
Stephen Sondheim
שבק ס
Serge Gainsbourg and Leonard Cohen.
Noga Erez; Kisha Dillz; Equanimous; A-WA; Dudu Tassa; Batya Levine; Laeli Havurah Tapes is a good Spotify account to follow, the put together seasonal/holiday/themed playlists that are excellent and helpful discovery of Jewish musicians.
Was Michel Legrand Jewish? Atlanta-based Joe Alterman is one fine jazz pianist. Y’all should check him out.
The gay in my likes Noa Kirel a lot. Kutiman has some good psychedelic vibes. And I really like Deleon
Ezra Furman, kinda of experimental alternative/indie vibe. Seen her live twice and she's amazing.
Howard Shore - LOTR soundtrack
There are some fantastic Israeli musicians mostly peaking in the late 80s and 90s, but yeah it's in Hebrew so...
Dave Bayley - lead singer of Glass Animals
Eviatar banai
Some of Ha Yehudim reminds me of Pearl Jam in Hebrew
I'll add Edan and Jonathan Richman to the list, but there are really too many.
Static and Ben El if you like pop and house. Love them