Makarevich: If Jews need to relax - musicians work

Andrei Makarevich made in Barnaul with "Creole Tango Orchestra." In between rehearsals, he met with representatives of the Jewish community. Speaking visited Rabbi Yisrael Noach Kamenetsky, the singer announced on the eve of Passover matzoh-Shany, kosher wine and grape juice. "Despite the fact that my father's name, Belarus, on my mother I Shmuylovich And all my maternal ancestors from Vitebsk -. Vitebsk Jews - the artist about her Jewish roots told -. My great-grandfather was in the synagogue Resnick, very respected. Unfortunately, burned during the war, before the arrival of the Germans all the archives of Vitebsk were, just in case, so digging work not something to grandparents. "Andrei Makarevich" We had a completely non-religious family. grandmother, Mary Moissejewna Blyakhman, from Vitebsk forensic scientists was on Petrovka 38th All investigators feared that like the plague, so that the religious questions, it was far Though our distant cousin, Uncle Israel Bundist -. a member of the federal government - was alive, my grandmother to him, I remember it took me a little remained with them, and there discussed the issues of faith and how many Jews in Moscow and so that was the 1955-56 year, a difficult time. ". - Recalled his childhood Makarevich. Jewish on the question of the relationship musical career and Jewish Andrei Makarevich said: "I think first and foremost it is a tradition - not give a rare Jewish mother would her child to a school of music This is absolutely Skripochka And if not, then the Background ... But I would not look for national studies, because we. On the fact that when he was a Jew, he came talented friend Believe me, this is not always the case. "Rabbi Yisrael Noach Kamenetsky pointeresovalya how often attended synagogue musicians." Rare. I go close friends who are engaged seriously in the study of Kabbalah, in the synagogue, celebrating Shabbat. I am very happy for them, and sometimes to them adjacent, but it is often not due to the fact that when the Jews need to relax - the musicians usually work. And then do nothing, - he said. - I was under the illusion: I think that what I will be longer than the free time. It turns out the other way around - it's less and less. So I need to keep myself in a very rigid frame. "