Re: Music of exile/Part2

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

Check out PEARLS FROM THE YIDDISH THEATRE, BY Mlotek.
2 songs come to mind---Ellis Island
Also a song that Sophie Tucker used to sing...Vos Geven iz Geven iz nitto.
Mucho luck
Trudi the G


>From: Wholesale Klezmer Band <ganeydn (at) crocker(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Music of exile
>Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:33:29 -0400
>
>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
> >
> >Home:           781-862-2432
> >Home Office:    781-862-4104
> >FAX:            781-862-0498
> >Cell:           781-622-0309
> >Email:          jbresler (at) ma(dot)ultranet(dot)com
> >
>
>
>
>


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