RE: Re[2]: Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish

[Mark H. David <mhd...>]

I really like the Israeli Yiddish cast album with Shmuel Rudensky, called
"A Fidler Afn Dakh".  If you enjoyed listening to the English cast album,
and want to try it in Yiddish, this is the ticket.  It's got snippets of
dialog from the play (in Yiddish), and really has the lively feeling of the
musical, as you'd want from a cast recording.  But it's even better because
it's in the _original_ original language, if not of the play, at least of
the stories by Sholem Aleichem upon which _Fiddler_ is based.

There have apparently been many other Fiddler recordings.  A search for
"Fiddler on the Roof" in the Yiddish Song Database
(http://www.cs.uky.edu/raphael-cgi-bin/yidsong.cgi) showed me that
translating and recording Yiddish versions of Fiddler was quite the
industry in the '70s.   I wonder how many different Yiddish translations
you could find -- I'd bet more than for any other language.

Regards,

Mark David

At 11:44 AM -0500 11/16/98, Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky wrote:
>Yes, it played in Israel for years and there is even a record with Shmuel
>Rodensky, its star, now deceased.  It's very good.
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>Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky
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>From:  richard_wolpoe (at) ibi(dot)com[SMTP:richard_wolpoe (at) ibi(dot)com]
>Sent:  Monday, November 16, 1998 5:44 AM
>To:  World music from a Jewish slant.
>Subject:  Re[2]: Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish
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>I think the original request was for the YIDDISH version. Is there a Yiddish
>stage and scren version out there? (I am aware of a Hebrew version that
>goes Lu
>hoyitti Rotchschild...)
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>Regards,
>Richard Wolpoe
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>Subject: Re: Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish
>Author:  <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org> at Tcpgate
>Date:    11/15/98 4:59 PM
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>"If I were a Rich Man" is from the musical "Fiddler on the Roof", which was
>produced on stage and as a movie.  You can probably get a CD of either the
>stage or movie productions, and a really good music store will have or can
>get the score.
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>From: Daniel B. Schwartz <SCHWARTZESQ (at) worldnet(dot)att(dot)net>
>To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Date: Sunday, November 15, 1998 9:07 AM
>Subject: Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish
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>>Last night I heard a recording of Jan Peerce singing "If I Were A Rich Man"
>>in Yiddish.  Does anyone know where I can get the music and lyrics for that
>>piece?
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