Re: purimspiel song

[Sylvia Schildt <creativa...>]

I am not sure, but it might be a version of the opening number of Itzik
Manger's "Megillah" -- if so, it is available on a CD -- a Yiddish
performance from Israel.

Sylvia Schildt
Baltimore, MD


 on 10/7/03 8:30 AM, Ari Davidow at ari (at) ivritype(dot)com wrote:

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>> From: "Alison Kamm" <alison(dot)kamm (at) club-internet(dot)fr>
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> Can anyone help Alison?
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>> I'm taking part in a concert here in the Paris area where I now live, on
>> coming thursday, where I have to sort of BE the jewish part of an event
>> around the bible, sort of oecumenical... The guy accompanying me (I sing,
>> as you may remember...at the time I was a student at the Rubin Academy of
>> Music) really wants to do this little Purim song from the "fake book":
>> Come And See Our Purimspiel. Somehow, I can't believe the original is not
>> in yiddish, and don't like the idea of singing it in english. I need to
>> solve this within two days: if you know the yiddish text, or where I can
>> find it, or know someone who can translate it INTO yiddish for me (even if
>> it isn't originally!) in a "fingersnap", I'd be most grateful!
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> ari
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