Re: Songs about food in Jiddisch

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

How could I have forgotten an opportunity for another shameless plug???

Also on my album is "Dos lid fun matse bakn" or "The Matse Baking Song", 
sung a capella (or should I say a shul) by Michael Alpert.

My CD is still for sale.  Be the first on your block to get it for next 
peysakh. :-)

Tsipe (Sylvia), I believe Belarsky did a version, also Theo Bikel, and 
I'm sure others.

Karin, where in Dona, Dona does it mention Latkes?  Are you looking for 
songs that even mention food, or songs that are about food?  There are 
more if the former is true.  And that's not even thinking of drinking!

Lorele


Karin wrote:

> Incredible 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 <mailto:creativa (at) charm(dot)net>
>     To: World music from a Jewish slant <mailto:jewish-music (at) 
> shamash(dot)org>
>     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
>     <mailto: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
>
>                 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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