Re: belz

As in Richard BELZER

>From: Sylvia Schildt

>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org

>To: World music from a Jewish slant

>Subject: Re: belz

>Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 19:47:44 -0400

>Dear Listers,

>As far as the song is concerned --- it is pronounced "Bells". While

>someone who comes from Belz (either one) would be called a Belzer or Beltzer

>with the ts sound.

>Sylvia Schildt

>Chair, IAYC

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>on 5/12/03 5:03 PM, Lori Cahan-Simon at l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org wrote:

> > 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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