Re: looking for lyrics to " vos darf men hoben gelt in der velt"

[Abigail Wood <a.c.wood...>]

It's interesting that the Katsherginski (Warsaw) version doesn't 
incorportate the 'tsuzamen mitn gelt' motif. For those who don't have 
the book, it goes (without even attempting a Polish accent):

Az nit keyn emune in got borukh hu, [Without faith in God, blessed be 
he)
Vos-zhe toyg mir ales vos ikh tu?[What's the point of all that I do]

Oyb nit keyn bitakhon in zayn geyule, [If not secure in his redemption]
Loynt nit tsu lebn a rege afile. [It's not even worth living for a 
moment]

Is the Ginzburg-Marek version similar to this? (I don't have a copy of 
the book)

Abigail


On 16 Mar 2004, at 13:42, itzik gottesman wrote:

> For other variations of "oyb nisht keyn emine" see Ginsburg-Marek no. 
> 26, and in Katcherginski's collection of ghetto songs, there is a 
> version that was sung in the Warsaw ghetto. I believe the informant 
> was the Montreal Yiddish poet Yehude Elberg who died last year. There 
> is a recording on an LP of this Warsaw version by a cantor whose name 
> is Asher Hazinovitch (my spelling is surely wrong, I apologize). 
> Notice that it is sung much slower than the Hasidic version which was 
> released on the recording "Zmires yisrol".. - itzik gottesman
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