Re: Songs about food in Jiddisch

[Karin <karin...>]

Re: Songs about food in JiddischIncredible how many songs you all know and I 
imagine all by the top of your heads. Thanks! There's songs about food and 
there's songs with food in it, there's a famous one, Dona, Dona that mentiones 
Latkes I'm inclined to think it's a food song as similar to broyt and bulbes 
it's such typical jewish food/item. I've also heard there's a matze song a jazz 
something anybody an idea. And is there singing about food in shul? Toda!!
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sylvia Schildt 
  To: World music from a Jewish slant 
  Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 7:51 AM
  Subject: Re: Songs about food in Jiddisch


  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 [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 

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