Re: Weirdest Yiddish Recordings

You betcha.

Trudi the G

>From: Allen Davis

>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 12:27:10 -0700

>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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