Lorele: every accredit for this song I've ever seen was Gelbart. It certainly was for the Yiddish text I saw as a kid.
But, hey...I went to the A/R shule.
Trudi the G
>From: Lori Cahan-Simon
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject: gelbart/dreydl
>Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 06:50:45 -0400
>
>Khaveyrim,
>
>You may remember my ongoing struggle to get to the bottom of the
>dreydl/dreidel issue of who is the original composer, Gelbart or
>Goldfarb (Gelbart having been my guess). Here is the latest
>communication I have had about it. Can anyone corroborate or expand
>on this information?
>
>a dank,
>Lorele
>
>
>Mikh Gelbart died childless. He always said that the children of
>the
>Arbeter-Ring (Workmen's Circle) Yiddish schools were his children.
>He
>was the music teacher of the Arbeter-Ring mitlshul (supplementary
>high-school) when I was a student there (1942-1946). We all "knew"
>that he was the composer of "Ikh bin a kleyner dreydl."
>
>When I worked in the national Education Department at 175 E.
>Broadway,
>NYC , during the early 1950s, the primary secretary to the then Ed
>Director, Nokhem Khanin (Chanin), Millie Melnick, once indicated
>that
>Gelbart had written the song that was now being claimed by someone
>else, and that he, Gelbart, thought seriously of suing the
>interloper,
>but did not have the financial means to sustain what could have been
>a
>long, and costly trial. It is a "sod far gantz brod," that teachers
>in
>the AR Shuln were not people of means. And so he decided not to
>resort
>to the legal system, and let the matter rest in no-man's land.
>
>
>--
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>
>
>
>
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