Re: belz

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

So, is it pronounced "belz" or belts"?
Lorele

Bill Barabash 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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