Re: Songs about food in Jiddisch

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

Sylvia, the one you are thinking of is "Lomir ale zingen a zemerl" (Mir 
trogn a gezang, pp. 156-157).

May I recommend "Burikes" from my CD, Songs My Bubbe Should Have Taught 
Me; Volume One: Passover, which Michael Alpert and I sing, about a poor 
couple not having enough money to buy beets or matse mehl for peysakh?

How about "Bublitshki bagels"?

Or "Kartofl-zup mit shvomen" (Mir trogn a gezang, p. 216-218).

Shvartse karshelekh mentions cherries, but the song isn't really about them.

Do I remember seeing a song called "goldene yoykh"?

Then there's "Hop, mayne homentashn" and a variety of ditties about 
latkes and homentashn.

There's a section on food in Zemerl at

 http://campuscgi.princeton.edu/~klez/zemerl/display.pl?subcategory=Food

but I cant' seem to access it today to see what's in it.

"Der Beker", the baker baking.

"Di mume hodl" baking for shabes.

And that's all I can think of for now.

Lorele


Sylvia Schildt wrote:

> Shana tova.
>
> Three others come to mind .... the first I am sure some will recognize 
> and help me with - it's a comparison between rich and poor. when a 
> rich man eats meat, it's such and such, but when a poor man eats meat, 
> it's just a something or other. That's the pattern of the song - meat, 
> fish, bread. Help!
>
> The second one is a folk favorite - Varnichkes.
>
> The last one is a borscht belt classic aptly named Esn.  It can be 
> found on a recent CD of Yiddish humor and it enumerates the entire 
> typical Grossinger's type menu down to the alka-seltzer.  
>
>
> Sylvia Schildt
> Chair
> 8th World Conference
> International Association of Yiddish Clubs (IAYC)
> Baltimore, MD September 4,5,6,7 2003
>
>
>
> on 9/11/02 4:29 PM, Richard Kamins at r(dot)kamins (at) snet(dot)net wrote:
>
>     The Adrienne Cooper songs referred to are "Borsht" (which is more
>     of a love song than food song" and "Yontev Peysakh" - the latter
>     song is best for food references.  Shirim recorded "Bulbes"
>     (potatoes) on their Newport Classics Cd, "Oy, It's Good."
>     Richard
>
>         From: Alex Lubet
>         To: World music from a Jewish slant
>         Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 4:15 PM
>         Subject: RE: Songs about food in Jiddisch
>
>         Adrienne Cooper has a lovely song about holiday foods on
>         Dreaming in Yiddish , can't recall the title.  
>
>         At 03:53 PM 9/11/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>
>             Off the top of my head I can think of Yidishe Maykholim
>             written by Shimshon Kemelmakher and sung by Wolf Krakowski
>             on his album Gilgul / Transmigrations.
>
>             G'Mar Tov
>
>     Mordi -----Original Message----- From:
>     owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>     [mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Karin Sent:
>     Wednesday, September 11, 2002 14:04 To: World music from a Jewish
>     slant Subject: Songs about food in Jiddisch
>
>     Can anybody help me with titles, music, texts, backrgound
>     information I'd like to make a list with as many songs as I can
>     find with as much info as possible... Thanking all, Karin
>
>     Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
>     Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music
>     Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies
>     University of Minnesota
>     100 Ferguson Hall
>     Minneapolis, MN 55455
>     612 624-7840 (o)
>     612 699-1097 (h)
>     612 624-8001  ATTN:  Alex Lubet (FAX)
>
>

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