Re: Ma Yofus - Yoshke

[Judith Pinnolis <pinnolis...>]

You may be interested in this as to origins of a song called Mah Yofis.

Here's an article about a zemer called Mah Yofith or Mah Yofis, which means
"how beautiful," and for centuries it was one of the most popular zemiroth
of the Jews of Poland and Russia. I've had an article about this on JMWC for
over 2 years in the kukvinkl section of the website.

Judy

http://www.jmwc.org/jmwc_kukvinkl_mahyofith.html


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "H.Oppenheim" <hoppen (at) po-box(dot)mcgill(dot)ca>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:35 PM
Subject: Ma Yofus - Yoshke


> Hi,
>
> does anybody know the real name of the piece known as "Ma Yofus" and
> "Yoshke yoshke" ?
> I think it is actually "Ma yofus".
>
> Thanks.
>
> Henri Oppenheim
>
>
>

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