Re: belz

[Joel Bresler <joel.br...>]

Bill,

There was a very interesting article on Kremer and her use of Yiddish. I 
can hunt up a copy for you, if you like.

Joel

At 10:02 AM 5/12/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>> >In 5.179 David Herskovic asked which Belz was the subject of "Mayn
>>shtetele
>> >Belz"--the one near Lviv (Lemberik) in Ukraine or the one in Moldova
>> >(historical Bessarabia).  I don't have a definitive answer, only some
>>clues.
>> >The song was written by Jacob Jacobs (words) and Alexander Olshanetsky
>>(music)
>> >for William Siegel's 1932 play _Dos lid fun geto_ (_Song of the
>>Ghetto_).
>> >Jacobs was born in Hungary; Olshanetsky, in Odessa.  (I wasn't able to
>> >establish a birthplace for Siegel.)  This circumstancial evidence
>>suggests
>> >Bessarabia over Galicia.  The Bessarabian Belz is really Belts (and
>>that's the
>> >official Yiddish form as well as the Moldavian/Romanian form), but
>>there's a
>> >tradition of using _Belz_ in Yiddish for both places.
>
>The song was written for, and introduced by Isa Kremer, who was a native 
>of Belz, Bessarabia.
>
>-- Bill B.
>
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