Re: Yiddish folk song circa 1850's

[sylvia schildt <creativa...>]

Would Yam Lid fit the bill?


Original Hebrew by Yehudah Halevy, translated into Yiddish, inspecific and
very beautiful. It's in one of the Mlotek books - sorry I can't find the
details at the moment due to pressing workload.


Sylvia Schildt
Baltimore, Maryland


on 3/25/04 11:04 AM, Lionel Mrocki at amrocks (at) optushome(dot)com(dot)au 
wrote:

> Does anyone have any suggestions for a yiddish song meeting the
> following criteria:
> 
> remeniscences of "the old country", or song of longing or nostalgia of
> sorts,
> popular, or at least sung around the time of the gold rush (Aussie gold
> rush was only a few years after the Californian gold rush)
> No references within the song to America as the locale of the story told
> in the lyrics.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> 
> Lionel Mrocki
> 
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