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Adrienne Cooper with Zalmen Mlotek
Ghetto Tango: Wartime Yiddish Theater
Traditional Crossroads TCRO 4297
Street Date: April 18, 2000
In the Jewish ghettos of Poland and Lithuania during World War II, a war of
dislocation, terror and death, cabaret music thrived. Jewish audiences
gathered in makeshift clubs and theaters to hear newly created Yiddish
songs, rooted in Jewish folk and liturgical music as well as European
operetta, American ragtime and Argentine tango. Jewish performers tuned
these cosmopolitan songs in a local key: satirical and elegiac, political
and personal, angry and heartsick. Together they created something rare,
scarcely conceivable: art at the edge of the abyss.

Adrienne Cooper, one of the world?s most acclaimed singers of Yiddish vocal
music, and Zalmen Mlotek, a leading figure in Yiddish musical theater, here
present ghetto songs collected during and after the war. Produced by Harold
G. Hagopian.
Includes:
?Moyshe halt zikh,? ?Coolies,? ?Mues,? ?Mazl / On a heym,? ?Makh tsu di
eygelekh,? Peshe fun Reshe,? ?Yisrolik,? ?Moorsoldaten,? ?Vayl ikh bin a
yidele,? ?Fun der arbet, Nit kayn rozhinkes,? ?Ver klapt es,? ?Friling,?
?Song of the Nazi Soldier?s Wife,? Amerike hot erklert,? ?Yid du
 partizaner,? ?Minutn fun bitokhn,? ?The Bar Mitzve Speech?
Available on CD. UPC number 7-80702-4297-2-8
File Under: WORLD: JUDAICA

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