Re: Gefilte Fish

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

>
> Anybody knows the author and/or origin of a Yiddish song called Gefilte Fish?
> My father used to love to sing it....At one point I even thought he had
> written it! Until I heard it on a recent Russian/Yiddish recording, but still
> couldn't figure out where it came from.



I have an Israeli anthology called "Yiddish is Alive," (Hed Artzi 1990, CD
15428) which has the song sung by David Eshet, with authoring credits given to
Hanan Winternitz and the melody credited as a "folk melody" and to "Lilian".

ari


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