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Re: Yiddish song about bird telling daughter to go out and live
- From: Neil B. Baker <bakern...>
- Subject: Re: Yiddish song about bird telling daughter to go out and live
- Date: Thu 18 Jan 1996 19.45 (GMT)
On 14 Jan 1996 22:35:18 GMT, Cantor Neil Schwartz <schwartz (at) enter(dot)net>
wrote:
>The beautiful Yiddish song you are looking for is called "Oifn Veg Shteyt
>a Boym". Text by Itsik Manger, music by P. Laskovski. One source is
>"Mir Trogn A Gezang", published by the Workman's Circle and reissued by
>Adama Books. It is also found in Volume 2 of the four-volume Anthology
>of Yiddish Folksongs from Hebrew University.
>
>As far as performers go, it is the sort of song which might have been
>recorded by Sidor Belarsky a generation ago. Cantor Leon Lissik has done
>more recent recordings of Yiddish songs also; you may want to contact
>Tara Publications at 1-800-TARA-400 to obtain "Mir Trogn A Gezang" and
>any available recordings.
>
> Cantor Neil Schwartz
>
>
I believe that this song can be found on a recent recording by Dudu
(David) Fisher called Mama Lushen. A wonderful album.