Re: Tr: Rivkele di Shabesdike

[Bill Barabash <billb978...>]

I have some further information.

This song appears on Ruth Rubin's "Yiddish Songs Of The Holocaust"
lecture/recital (Global Village CD 150).  In the liner notes, she
writes:

    "Rifkele di Shabesdike" (Rifkele, the Sabbath Girl).
    Bialistok Ghetto.
    Text: P. Kaplan Tune: Anonymous. Collected from Dora Rubin.

-- Bill B.

>This e-mail can be of interest for some list-members and perhaps somebody 
>has another information about this topic...
>
>----- Message d'origine -----
>De : Antonio Celaya <celaya (at) sirius(dot)com>
>
> >     While searching for information on the song Rivkele di Shabesdike I
> > stumbled upon your letter to a young lady mentioning the song.  In your
> > letter you note that the song was written by Pesakh Kaplan.  I do not
> > suggest you are incorrect, as I don't know, but I have also read that it
> > was written in the Ghetto by Reuven Lifshutz.  May I ask the source of
> > your information.
> >     I am a composer and would very much like to do a choral arrangement
> > of the song, so that it could be shared with choral singers who would
> > otherwise probably not ever hear it.  Perhaps I have no right to
> > approach the song, but I hope I can set it in a simple way that is not
> > disrespectful.   I have read that Reuven Lifshutz died in the early
> > 1980's.  I would like to contact his heirs and request permission to set
> > the piece before I start the long work of an arrangement.  Do you know
> > whether the author has any heirs - under the circumstances it would
> > hardly be surprising if he did not.  Any information you can provide
> > will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>The first time I heard  "Rivkele...", I was told that the anonymous 
>manuscript was found in the ruins of the Bialystok's Ghetto
>after the huge pogrom of saturday (shabes) july 12, 1942 when 5000 Jews 
>(especially males) were killed. Rivkele was the surviving
>wife of one...
>
>Later, I discoverd some instrumental or vocal interpretations of this song 
>without author's mention  (Giora Feidman, Chava
>Alberstein, Klezmokum) and only a few (Sarah
>Gorby, Zahava Seewald) with Pesakh Kaplan as author of the lyrics.
>AFAIK, Reuven Lifshutz was mentionned as author of the song "Der Hoyfzinger 
>fun Varshauer geto" on the Klezmer Conservarory
>Band's13th birthday's album and "Motele fun Varshauer geto" on the CD 
>"Voices of the Ghetto" but these three songs are actually the
>same!!!
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