Kim & Reggie Harris, Rabbi Jonathan Kligler - Let My People Go! A Jewish & African American Celebration Of Freedom (2005)

There are plenty of connections between the Jewish and African-American people. Both have been oppressed and enslaved during history, and many Jews were involved in the civil rights struggle of the 1960s. This album is as much a celebration of that time as it is a political statement of solidarity in song, cantorial chant, and spoken word reminiscences. At times quite extraordinarily lovely, as on "Venomar Lefanav (Let Us Sing a New Song)," with its klezmer overtones, or "I Have a Million Nightingales," it can also turn deeply spiritual, as on "In the Mississippi River." It's definitely not a background disc, but one that comes back time after time, showing different facets with each track, all coming together to paint a picture. In its own small way it's glorious, if low-key, the type of record that brings a glow of satisfaction (as is the case with everything Kim & Reggie Harris do).

Tracklist:
01-01 Kim & Reggie Harris - B'chol Dor Va'dor (In Every Generation)/i'm On My Way [4:09]
01-02 Kim & Reggie Harris - Ha Lachma Anya (This Is The Bread Of Oppression [2:11]
01-03 Kim Harris - Avodim Hayinu (Slaves Were We) [1:32]
01-04 Reggie Harris - In The Mississippi River [4:01]
01-05 Sonny Ochs - Remembering Phil Ochs [1:06]
01-06 Kim & Reggie Harris - What's That I Hear [5:01]
01-07 Kim & Reggie Harris - The New Colossus/give Me Your Tired, Your Poor/motherless Children [4:04]
01-08 Rabbi Arthur Waskow - Democratic National Convention 1964 [7:05]
01-09 Kim & Reggie Harris - Mah Lecha Ha'yam (Sea, Why Do You Flee?) [3:09]
01-10 Kim & Reggie Harris - Man Come Into Egypt [3:22]
01-11 Kim & Reggie Harris - Ilu Finu (Were Our Mouths Oceans Of Song) [4:45]
01-12 Kim & Reggie Harris - Let My People Go: Story Of An Activist's Life [6:07]
01-13 Kim & Reggie Harris - Freedom Road [4:22]
01-14 Kim & Reggie Harris - I Have A Million Nightingales [5:04]
01-15 Kim & Reggie Harris - Venomar Lefanav (Let Us Sing A New Song) [2:17]
01-16 Reggie Harris - We Shall Overcome: Evolution Of A Song [3:14]
01-17 Kim & Reggie Harris - Ani Ma'amin (I Believe)/we Shall Overcome [5:34]
01-18 Kim & Reggie Harris - I Won't Turn Back [4:43]