Re: Music of exile

[Wholesale Klezmer Band <ganeydn...>]

There must be lots of Yiddish songs that deal with exile (goles).  At this
hour, the ones that come to mind quickly are:

Oyfn Pripetshok--
        Az ir vet, kinder, dem goles shlepn
        (As you, children, endure exile, )

Bobenyu
        Der Got fun Avrom, er spant unz tsurik ayn,
        in shvern tog teglikhn yokh,
        tsu trogn dem goles...
        (Got fun Avrom-the Yiddish women's prayer at the end of Shabbos-
sends us back
        to the hard weekday yoke.
        To endure exile....

O ir kleyne likhtelekh
        Host amol a land gehat, host amol a hant gehat.
        (Once you had a land, once you had a [strong] hand)

And, of course the Yiddish songs about the wish to end exile with the
coming of Meshiekh--the Messiah, such as Shnirele Perele, Vos Vet Zayn, etc.

Zayt gezunt (be healthy),

Yosl (Joe) Kurland
The Wholesale Klezmer Band
Colrain, MA 01340
voice/fax: 413-624-3204
http://www.crocker.com/~ganeydn


>Dear Friends:
>
>I am preparing a radio show on the music of exile and songs concerned with
>the loss of a homeland. My preferred focus will be music that resulted from
>a large group of people uprooted, as opposed to the individual exile, but I
>won't let that get in the way of great music. The show will have some
>Jewish selections but be predominantly from other traditions. I'm pretty
>well covered on the Al Naharot Bavel/By the waters of Babylon/Psalm 137 and
>Sephardic front, but would appreciate more interesting/obscure Ashkenazi
>selections.
>
>Separately from this list's focus, I would be particularly interested in
>Native American selections and selections from South America, Asia and
>Africa, in addition to more obscure European examples. Kindly send me your
>suggestions, on the list if you think they would be of general interest,
>else private email would be fine.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Joel
>
>
>
>Joel Bresler
>250 E. Emerson Rd.
>Lexington, MA 02420 USA
>
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