Re: Songs about food in Jiddisch

[Sylvia Schildt <creativa...>]

Lori,

That is the one ... didn't Sidor Belarsky do it?  I believe so.  Anyway it's
a great song.

Amazing what a powerful thread Food is in Yiddish culture.

Sylvia


on 9/11/02 5:46 PM, Lori Cahan-Simon at l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org 
wrote:

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:
Re: Songs about food in Jiddisch 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
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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

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