Re: Weirdest Yiddish Recordings

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

Or Louis Prima's Mahzel, for that matter...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lori Cahan-Simon" <l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 6:31 AM
Subject: Re: Weirdest Yiddish Recordings


> What about Cab Calloway's version of "Utt A Zoy"  (ot azoy)?
> Lorele
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> Allen Davis wrote:
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> > Paul Robeson recorded this, I think in the Carnegie Hall concert.
> >
> > Allen
> >
> > At 10:37 AM 7/13/02 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >> Jan Peerce recorded a very good version of A din-toyre mit Got. He
> >> talks about the piece and what it meant to him, in his Autobiography,
> >> THE BLUEBIRD OF HAPPINESS.
> >>
> >>   Trudi the G
> >>
> >> >From: "Michel Borzykowski"
> >> >Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> >> >To: World music from a Jewish slant
> >> >Subject: Re: Weirdest Yiddish Recordings
> >> >Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:03:26 +0200
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ----- Original Message ----- the article won't be about weird
> >> > Jewish songs in general, but about strange Yiddish songs.
> >> >
> >> >Shalom Ethan !
> >> >
> >> >I would suggest to consider the strange "Kaddish" or "A din-toyre
> >> mit Got", words by Rabbi Levi Yitzkhok von Berditshev (1740 -1809).
> >> >Afaik, it was not a song but a peculiar speech that the Rebbe
> >> delivered to his court instead of a regular kaddish...
> >> >I don't know who put it into music
> >> >-----------------------------------------------------------
> >> >Git morgn, Riboynoy shel Oylem !
> >> >Ikh, Levi Yitzkhok ben Sore mi Berditshev
> >> >Bin tsu dir gekum'n mit a din toyre far dayn folk Isroel.
> >> >Un voss hostu tsu dayn folk Isroel?
> >> >Un voss hostu zikh ongezetst oyf dayn folk Isroel?
> >> >Un voss nokh a zakh, iz "zav ess bney Isroel"?
> >> >Un voss nokh a zakh, iz "emoyr livney Isroel"?
> >> >Un vi nokh a zakh, iz "daber livney Isroel" ?
> >> >Tatenyu ! Kamo umoyss b'oylem ?
> >> >Bawlayim, Parsayim, Edoymayim.
> >> >Di daytshlender, wuss zogn zey? "Inzer kenig iz a kenig".
> >> >Di englender, wuss zogn zey? "Inzer malkuss iz a malkhuss".
> >> >Un ikh, Levi Yitzkhok ben Sore mi Berditshev, zog:
> >> >"Yisgadal veyiskadash shemey rabo !"
> >> >Un ikh, Levi Yitzkhok ben Sore mi Berditshev, zog:
> >> >"Loy ozuss mim'keymi !
> >> >Kh'vel zikh fun ort nit rir'n !
> >> >Un a sof zol doss zayn, un an ek zol doss nem'n !
> >> >Yisgadal veyiskadash shemey rabo !"
> >> >----------------------------------------------------
> >> >Good morning to You, Lord of the Universe.
> >> >I, Levi-Yitzchok, son of sarah, of Berditchev,
> >> >have come to You in a lawsuit
> >> >On behalf of Your people Israel.
> >> >What have You against your people Israel?
> >> >And why do you oppress Your people Israel?
> >> >No matter what happens, it is:
> >> >"Command the Children of Israel!"
> >> >No matter what happens, it is:
> >> >"Say to the Children of Israel!"
> >> >No matter what happens, it is:
> >> >"Speak to the Children of Israel!"
> >> >Father dear! how many other peoples are there in the world?--
> >> >Babylonians, Persians, and Edomites!..
> >> >The Germans, what do they say?
> >> >"Our Kind is a King!"
> >> >The English -- what do they say?
> >> >"Our Sovereign is a Sovereign!"
> >> >And I, Levi-Yitzchok, son of Sarah, of Berditchev, say:
> >> >"Hallowed and magnified by the name of God!"
> >> >And I, Levi-Yitzchok, son of Sarah, of Berditchev, say:
> >> >"I will not stir from here!
> >> >An end there must be to this -- it must all stop!
> >> >Hallowed and magnified be the name of God!"
> >> >------------------------------------------------
> >> >
> >> >You can hear it by:
> >> >- Emile KACMANN on "Voices of the Ghetto" WMD 242066
> >> >- Nizza THOBI on "Gobojrn in a sajdn hemdl" David Records LC 2584
> >> >- Helmut EISEL's Asoj on "Spirit of Klezmer" Koch CD 34105-2 H1
> >> >- Marcel LORAND Trio on "Jiddishe Stikele: Jewish Songs from the
> >> Prague Ghetto" Supraphon LC 0358 SU 3343-2211
> >> >
> >> >
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