Re: G-d un doss kelbl

[Joshua Horowitz <horowitz...>]

Budowitz Website: http://www.budowitz.com

I thought that Itzak Katsenelson wrote the song after his wife and 2
children were deported from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 to Auschwitz where
they were murdered. He was later murdered himself in Auschwitz in 1944. Josh

>From: Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl (at) flash(dot)net>
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: RE: G-d un doss kelbl
>Date: Fri, Feb 23, 2001, 11:50 AM
>

> This is true about Bikel.
>
> The original word as the composer and lyricist sang and wrote it were
> "dana, dana".  (I heard it myself from the composer, Wolf Younin, whom I
> knew well.)  It later got changed to "dona", but I can't remember by whom
> or why.  Was this just the folk process or Theodore Bikel decision?  There
> are many people around who would know the history of this song to answer
> most questions.  But I am sure that it had nothing to do with "adonay".
>
>
> Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky
>
>
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> Subject:  Re: G-d un doss kelbl
>
> Hi Paula:
>
> I believe Theodore Bikel sings it: "Donay, donay, donay...."
> But I agree Michel may be trying to read too much into it.
>
> Wolf
>
> PTAW85 (at) aol(dot)com wrote:
>
>> That's the first time I've heard it.  I have heard many native
>> Yiddish-speaking singers do this song, and never have I heard anyone
>> pronounce the words in the chorus other than "Dona, dona".  I think you
> may
>> be trying to read too much into it.
>>
>> Paula Teitelbaum
>>
>> In a message dated 2/23/01 8:41:24 AM, borzykowski (at) infomaniak(dot)ch 
>> writes:
>>
>> << In the famous song "Doss kelbl", the chorus "Dona dona", pronounced
> with a
>> *good* yiddish accent sounds like "Donay donay".
>>
>> I always wondered whether it was another way to call for G-d without
>> pronouncing His name and without singing "Hashem" (that obviously sound
> like
>> a fake).
>>
>> Any opinion?
>>
>> Michal (tso kikhal) >>
>>
>
>
>
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