Re: Inquiry re "Eli, Eli"]

[Sylvie Braitman <curlySylvie...>]

Eyli, Eyli (My God, My God)
Jacob Sandler (1860-1931) wrote this piece for a Yiddish musical staged in
New York in 1896. Initially performed by Boris Thomashevski (the grandfather
of our own Michael Tilson Thomas), the song was also performed in the Warsaw
ghetto.


Eyli, Eyli, lama azavtani?

In fayer un flam hot men undz gebrent,
Iberal hot men undz gemakht tsu shand un shpot
Dokh optsuvendn hot undz keyner gekent
Fun dir mayn Got
Un fun dayn heylike toyre
Fun dayn gebot.
Eyli...
Tog un nakht, nor ikh trakht
Fun dir mayn Got.
Ikh hit mit moyre
Op dayn toyre un dayn gebot.

Rete mikh, oy rete mikh fun gefar
Vi a mol di oves fun beyzn gzar
Her mayn gebet un mayn geveyn

Helfn kenstu dokh nor aleyn
Shma Israel Adonay Eloheynu
Adonai Ekhad

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
In fire and flames we have been burnt
Everywhere they shamed and mocked us

But no one could turn us away
>From you my God
And from your Holly Torah
>From your commandments
My god..
Day and night, I only think
Of you, my God.
I keep with awe
Your Torah and your commandments.

Save me, oh save me from danger
Like once you saved our fathers from an angry czar

Only you can help
Listen, Israel, God our Lord
Is one.


----- Original Message -----
From: <music (at) sterlingmp(dot)org>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:14 PM
Subject: [Fwd: Inquiry re "Eli, Eli"]


> Friends, I could find this, but others will, I imagine, be able to
retrieve
> it more quickly and (if further questions ensue) knowledgably.  Can
someone
> else this guy?
>
> (forwarded to me by a third party; I don't know him)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert Cohen
>
>
> **25. MUSIC: YIDDISH LYRICS - CLF NEWS (US)
> I seek the lyrics to a plaintive Yiddish song that begins, in Hebrew,
> with a quotation from the 22nd Psalm, "Eli, Eli, lama azavtani," after
> which the second line begins with the Yiddish for "In fire and flame..."
> If you have any associates in Israel, please forward my query to them as
> well. CLF News is the online journal of the Council for the Literature of
> the Fantastic, which publishes articles and reviews on this type of
> literature, past and present, throughout the world.
> Need leads by 03:00 PM US/Eastern JUN 27
> >>> Daniel Pearlman <dpearl (at) uri(dot)edu> Phone: 401-453-3027
>
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>
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