Isaac Bashevis Singer's autobiographical novel, "In My Father's Court", virtually begged to be read aloud for a radio audience. Written in the format of a separate story for each chapter, and nar rated in the first person, it was originally serialized in the "For- verts" from February 18 to September 30, 1955. Singer was forced to adapt his material to the format of a newspaper, in which space on the page is limited and where there are certain constraints in language and content. We had a similar task: to adapt these sto ries to the constraints of the radio medium. Adapting the text con sisted primarily of eliminating "unnecessary" elements that inter fered with the transformation of one genre into another. On these two compact discs, one can hear the first 12 stories, which deal with the Jewish characters on Warsaw's Krochmalna Street as it once was. - Boris Sandler, "Forverts"

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The new CD is called "Traktorist." It features Bob Cohen, Yankl Falk, and the rest of Di Naye Kapelye. Michael Alpert shows up, as does Josh Dolgin. At one point they run out of musicians, so they dragoon a semi-anonymous crowd of extras called the Técso village band. The music runs a gamut from hutsul and other Carpathian wonders to Abe Schwartz, Hasidic nign, and those folky things that you collect when you've wandered around in them thar hills a few decades. In short, if you were hearing real bands worth hearing playing the mixed up, all fits together, dance your socks off usual repertoire, it might sound this good. I might have more refined things to say as I listen to this a few more times (It's been on steady repeat since I got home a few hours ago), but I already know that this is the gift. - Ari Davidow

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Esta coleccion de canciones folkloricas incluye muchas que dificlmente se encuentran en otras colecciones como por ejemplo "Arum Dem Fayer" la cancion juvenil/socialista por excelencia cantada en campamentos al calor de la hoguera y la mezcla con muchas otras canciones que cubren el arco iris del folklore Yiddish.
Para quienes gustan de la voz operetica de Leibele y de la musica en Yiddish encontraran en esta coleccion una joya digna de escuchar una y otra vez....

Few colections will include such as eclectic collection of songs performer by a "super-Jasoinishe" voice and style.
From youth camp songs like "Arum Dem Fayer" to warning songs like "Es Brent" this collection has a little bit of something for everybody and will warranty many hours of enjoyment to those who love Jasoinish and Yiddish music.

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After years of waiting for a Yiddish Tango recording we did it ourselves - both proud and lucky to find an extraordinary singer, profound expert and indefatigable promoter of Yiddish language and culture in our home town Berlin. Karsten Troyke does not care so much about where the tango originally comes from. His distinctive style refers to the Jewish theatre and cabaret song of the Twenties and early Thirties just as to the renaissance of the Yiddish "Schlager" in the Fifties, and after all his art has that brightness you will not find while searching it.

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"Dan Kahn is the hottest damn songwriter you've never heard of. Kahn is not only an amazing multi-instrumentalist/playwright/poet, he also typifies the youthful ethos that reminds us that music without heart is just a bunch of noise." Metro Times, Detroit

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This is such an extraordinary album. Massive and wonderful columns of human voice, some of my favorite soloists--including the incomparable Adrienne Cooper, and a dazzling selection of Yiddish labor songs. For an organization to inspire this much power and music, it had to matter, and indeed, the Jewish Labor Bund represented the best of Jewish socialist aspirations in Russia. Never mind that some of those aspirations have come to seem naive or unfulfillable today--perhaps the real point is that we, ourselves, lost sight of the dream and need a new Jewish Labor Bund to revisit questions of socialism and Jewish tradition and the struggle for justice. If so, this album will rekindle and reinspire. - Ari Davidow

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Right from the opening notes from the Didgeridoo, you can tell that Mitch Smolkin’s A Song Is Born is going to be an interesting listening experience. Smolkin leads us on a wondrous journey through Yiddish song, infused with world music in such a way that the album transcends the way we relate to this music. South American flutes and Harmonica add depth to the music, proving that the music of the shtetl can be brought to the world at large, taking elements from other cultures and enhancing the music in the process, rather than diluting it. In fact, adding these elements brings us closer to the Yiddish culture of those who emigrated outside North America.

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Four stories, four legends from America's daily's life in Yiddish. If you listen to them you will 'schlep nakhes' and enjoy them thoroughly.

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This instrumental and choral collection includes the classics of the classics including Klezmer, Show biz and Liturgical music which you will enjoy in this Israeli production

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If possible, listen to this CD with your earphones on, the sounds, the voices, the quality are so special they deserve to be enjoyed. Special attention should be paid to "Fraytig By der Nakht" where, with earphones you can actually hear the peace and freedom of TGIF added to the joy of a family Shabes dinner. Also, Golda Tencer's voice deserves to be heardwhile the rhythm of "Ysrolik" will take you to the "happy" the undefeatable spirit of children in the Ghetto. Buy this CD. Give it as a gift or keep it as a special jewel, As it's title says, Stars are really dancing on your roof when you listen to it.

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Nehama's Operatic voice mixes with this classical folk songs to create a very eastern European ambiance for this collection recorded in the 1960's in Israel

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Ghetto Tango is a remarkable CD. Beautifully performed by master musicians Cooper and Mlotek and accessable to all audiences I believe that this album is one of the best of the year. The songs are at once funny, disturbing, beauiful, moving and grotesque. What a great change from the usual sugary-sweet, pseudosentimental holocaust memorial recordings! Here we have an honest and true testiment to the complexities of the Jewish experience during the Holocaust. But this isn't just an album to use simply as a memorial, it's a great listen and surprisingly delightful. It is certainly a must for any world music collector and certainly for any Jewish music lover! - Mariko S. Goldberg

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The audio quality of the CD is outstanding. The traditional stories are presented dynamically by David Rogow with sounds effects that really bring these stories to life.

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An eloquent example of the power of traditional Jewish music.

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Led by multi-instrumentalist and ethnomusicologist Henry Sapoznik, Kapelye took a very serious approach to the traditional klezmer music of the Eastern European Jews. One of the first of the klezmer revival bands to record, Kapelye took a broad view of klezmer, mixing folk ballads, labor and political anthems as well as songs from the Yiddish Theater. ~ Craig Harris, All Music Guide

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I have owned this cd for several years and never get tired of listening to it. It points up the star quality of the Bucharest State Jewish Theater, which somehow prospered under the repressive Ceausescu regime in Romania. I am not sure if it still exists, but this wonderful and inexpensive disk preserves an excellent record of their virtuosity and talent. These are some of the most delightful Yiddish folk songs, sung in the Southern Yiddish dialect, and beautifully! I hope that this wonderful troupe still exists and performs in Romania! Zayt gezunt!

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A children's album in Yiddish might seem to be of interest only to the tiny community of Yiddish-speakers. In fact, this collection can appeal to those who enjoy and perform children's music. The songs capture the beauty and joy of Yiddish culture, with some singalongs simple enough for general audiences.

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So much is spoken of what touches the Heart, The Soul, the Mind. So much is spoken of the Word. And yet so much experience is from a different place, the place of the viscera, the kishkes. Hence, here they are: Tales From the Kishkes.

Merlin Shepherd, acclaimed player, teacher and interpreter of traditional East European Klezmer Clarinet style, features the former Soviet Union Klezmer All Stars or, in his own words, some of the greatest klezmer players in the world today. Go and hear for yourself! One has hardly heard before Klezmer played with such passion, such authority, such pleasure and such a lack of attitude. Jewish Music directly from the heart, the soul and, not to forget, from the kishkes. Jewish music that comes closer to one of the many ways that it may or probably may not have sounded so long ago.

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A delightful recording

This is a very jolly set of European-style performances — tsimbl and fiddle predominate, no brass — that often feels like a family gathering. And that’s appropriate, because the CD comes with dance directions for kids, as well as the usual translations, bios and such. A delightful recording, fueled by Cahan-Simon’s warm, friendly sound.
George Robinson

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Ruth Levin presents to the public the best creations of Leibu Levin, her father. Czernowitz born actor and composer, the last of the great Yiddish trobadours. Leibu Levin is also called the "Jewish Schubert". This anthology includes most of Levin's lifetime work, and its variety paints a musical portrait of the Jewish epos in the 20th century.

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Josh Waletzky, the acclaimed filmmaker of "Partisans of Vilna" and composer of Yiddish songs like "Dem zeydns nign" and Eugene Orenstein, an Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University present us this documentary on how at 101, Itche Goldberg -Editor, Essayist, Literary Critic, Poet and Editor- takes a look back at his life and work.

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This CD has been a long time coming. Several albums had been recorded by the JPPC through 1967, but none since then. In 2004, its conductor, Binyumen Schaechter, decided to search the JPPC's current and past archives to select some of the best songs for a CD that would showcase the range of musical styles, moods and themes in our repertoire. We hope this selection of choral gems in "Zingt!" - most of which have not been recorded in a choral version before - will delight and inspire you as it has us.

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Yiddish meets Arab, Rock and Opera
Listen to Summer Time back in its original language.

Yes. Originally created for anski's dibbuk, it transformed into porgy and bess when Ira Gershwin couldn't get the rights to "Der Dibbuk" and now it is back in Yiddish.

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One of Brooklyn's most unique Jewish minstrels of musical myth.

This 20-song CD collection (just $11), taken from the original recordings, is a priceless time capsule into a very special category of Jewish-American music of the 20th Century.

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Send a Check or Money order for $11 madeout to Joel Samberg
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The theme of nature is a symbol of all aspects of human life. Since immemorial times poets have been inspired by nature, a mirror of the soul. The theme of longing, one's feelings, is also a classical one. These feelings can be expresses using everyday examples. In this album, the lyrics deal with various aspects of longing in which melancholy, parting, hope and love come to the forefront.
Lucette van den Berg

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The composer Daniel Galay has brought this traditional music to the concert hall through his own performances.
The pieces capture every mood from happiness and joy to tunes of somber sentiment and sorrow, together with the inimitable Jewish humor. Here are enjoyable tunes for every occasion, exuberant and nostalgic in turn.

Autralian Music Teacher Magazine - March-April 2001.

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Betty Klein, international folksinger, pianist, guitarist, harpist and accordionist has performed in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. She appeared on the BBC, Belgian, Israeli, Spanish and Italian radio and television. She performs at the Disapora Museum and conducts Yiddish sing alongs through Israel.

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Yiddish Soul, a feast of music both ancient and radically new, closed the 2002 "Food for the Soul" Festival on October 13, 2002. A stellar group of musicians -universally acclaimed for their varied groundbreaking projects in traditional and contemporary Yiddish music and theater -celebrated the vitality of Yiddish culture at the beginning of the 21st. century. Fed by the humility, humor and creative passion of generations of artists, these celebrated Yiddish songmasters moved through centuries of musical territory that brought the 700 lucky people in attendance to their feet.

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The book Melodies of Yiddish Shtetlakh contains examples of Yiddish music (folk music and compositions) and continues the series devoted to the Jewish musical heritage.

Although interest in Yiddish music has increased considerably in recent years, its study has become more and more complicated, because the world in which Yiddish culture emerged and flourished doesn't exist anymore. The main purpose of this book is to reintroduce forgotten and unknown scores and historic information relating to the Yiddish musical heritage.

There are some differences in the spelling of Yiddish words in this book. Yiddish uses Hebrew script, but in the post-revolution period Latin script started to be used specifically for song lyrics. However, geographical differences in Yiddish dialects represent real differences of pronunciation, while in some cases perhaps differences are due merely to an absence of rules for transliterating. The spelling in this materials is as it appears in the original materials.

This collection compiled and edited by Dr. Yelena Irzabekova and titled Jewish Songs and Dances contains Yiddish musical folklore arranged by Soviet Jewish composers. The majority of songs and dances included into this work were collected, arranged and published for the first time in the pre-WWII period in the former Soviet Union.

New Yiddish songs by a leading Yiddish poet and songwriter, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, and performed by today's best young klezmer artists and singers including: Michael Alpert, Adrienne Cooper, Frank London, Lorin Sklamberg, Theresa Tova, Sharon Bernstein, Benyumin Schaechter, Pete Rushefsky, Deborah Strauss.

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Based on a true survivor story, this powerful picture book is yet another astonishing Holocaust account for discussion. A Polish Jewish child, blissfully happy with his loving parents, gets a harmonica from his coal-miner father and learns to play Schubert while his parents dance. The realistic mixed-media, double-page illustrations contrast that glowing warmth of home with the darkness that comes when Nazi soldiers break down the door, separate the boy from his family, and send him to the camps. His harmonica becomes his solace. The commandant hears about the child's playing. He orders the boy to play Schubert and throws him bread. In the end, however, the music does nothing to humanize the brutal Nazis. In fact, one unforgettable picture shows the commandant blissfully listening to the music, one hand over his heart and the other holding a whip. The home memories are idyllic, but there's absolutely no sentimentality about the child's survival. Johnston gives children and grown-ups lots to talk about here--for example, Can a person be both sensitive and cruel?

In 1983, the Austrian State Broadcasting Service produced a two-hour program on Gebirtig, as part of a series on great Jewish personalities, such as Freud, Einstein, Marx, Mahler, Buber, etc. Had anyone suggested to Gebirtig during his lifetime that a time would come that he, the humblest of the humble, would be considered one of the greatest in his field of folk-music, he would have considered it a joke in poor taste.

In this way Sinai Leichter typifies Mordekhay Gebirtig in his "Anthology of Yiddish folksong", Volume 6, and it is a striking characterization.

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A "Frylech" full of the sweetest kletzmer this side of Delancey Street.

A delicious taste of music, laughter and songs filled with outrageous humor in English and Yiddish, are the main ingerdients in this CD.

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Composer and violinist Yale Strom has attempted to capture the many faces of klezmer on this album, and in part he succeeds. Whether it's on "Biribidzhan," with its familiar frantic pace (there were many similarities between klezmer and Gipsy music), or "Horo Din Caval," led by some lovely guitar picking, or even the attempt at soul with "Ten Plagues," he refuses to be shackled to some stereotype of klezmer. And that's all well and good.

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The best Yiddish recording for children in the last years. A must have CD for every family.

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Leibele Jinich, Chazan Emeritus of the Mexico's Bet-El Community honors in this CD to the Chazanim, Singers, Musicians, Composers, Directors and Poets who have made a contribution to enrich the Jewish music around the world.

This CD is also in honor of the following Jewish towns and cities in Europe: Merech, Lapi, Odesa, Radsky, Lazdei, Sanock, Zagush, Vilna, Warsaw, Dobrzyn, Satoraijavjhely, Salonika, Suvalk, Punsk, Uman, Ostrovietz, Starobin, etc.

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Listen to 10 Yiddish writers reading from their own writings in this production by Sheva Zucker which brings the Yiddish voice to those who did not have a formal yiddish education and never heard the writers, teachers or performers read high level writing in Yiddish.

Enjoy Sholem Aleichem, (yes the original in his own voice!), listen to Leivick, Molodowsky, Glatshteyn, Leyeles, Sutzkever, Mash, Shraibman and of course Schaechter-Gottesman reading their own writings.

Enjoy the recording, enjoy the language and get to know the writers in the included book of biographies (All in Yiddish AND English) and if that would not be enough read with the readers with the full transcript provided in a second booklet with all copy in perfect Yiddish with a brief but good translation into English and a lexicon for specific words translated into English, Russian and Hebrew.

A perfect CD to buy for yourself, for your parents and your friends...

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Sheva Zucker
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The cost is $25 + 2 for postage in the US.
Postage for other countries may vary.
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Jacqui Sussholz sings with such feeling, he can make your spine tingle. You`ll hear his heart and you`ll feel he knows your soul. He can be tender, joyous, or deeply moving. He can make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. Sussholz is the real thing: his traditional Yiddish and Hassidic music comes direct from the source, and you can hear it. The brilliant, richly-textured musical arrangements bring vibrant new life to Yiddish/Hassidic classics. This is music that transcends categories; music lovers everywhere will hear its call - and respond. Yiddish really is for ever - and for everyone. Yiddish is Forever: the full 3-CD collection - 48 songs, more than 3 hours of great music.

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This charming Haggadah emphasizes Yiddish culture through wonderfully relevant selections from Sholom Aleichem, I. L. Peretz, Chaim Zhitlovsky, and Yiddish songs of rejoicing and resistance...Our uniqueness as a people is both observed and celebrated. One of my favorites.

Mayn Oytser...is indeed a treasure...Mellow, melodic, fresh, this collection brings new life to old and new classics...We should all celebrate the release of this CD.

Some of the songs are old vintage, others are more recent, but Sherm Labovitz sings all of them with a magnetic haunting nostalgia that makes one listen to them over and over again.

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For over 20 years Alex Spektor and Vitaly Barishnikov have been performing, composing, and producing award winning original music, and song writing for the television and film industry. Now they present "Vu Is Du Gesele", a collection of Yiddish folk songs with a modern interpretation and sound, dedicated to the People who perished in the Holocaust.

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Even when they seemed to have taken their own routes, the truth is that both the African-American and the Jewish experience in America are as close as ever and will keep on developing side by side since anything that happens to one will affect the second one.

On a positive note In this record both musical experiences come together to create a unique mix and a new sound for these communities.

"Sha Shtil" brings together the rhythms of Eastern Europe with the ones from Western Africa to create a rich melody worth of the best American tradition.

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Famous Russian Night Club artist. Sings 11 New Songs in Yiddish, Hebrew and Russian.

If you want to give a gift or simply want to make sure you have a complete collection of Yiddish music you must have this CD.

A hand picked collection of most requested Yiddish hits very nicely orchestrated and sung by Mike.

You might have many of these songs in other recordings but if you do not have them with Mike you might not have enjoyed them to the fullest

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Enjoy Mike Burstyn in your living room.

With this CD you will enjoy his showmanship and humor while listening to songs in Yiddish., English, Hebrew and "Brustynian" a language invented by the Burstyns mixing all the different components of their world from Argentina to Canada, from France to Israel.

A really enjoyable album with one of the most renowned Jewish showmen.

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A Jewish Odyssey, a compilation that explores the richness and diversity of Jewish music. From the Mediterranean flavors of Sephardic music to energetic and emotive klezmer, A Jewish Odyssey follows the long journey of Jewish music from the Middle East to Eastern Europe, Spain, Turkey, Italy, the USA, Israel and beyond.

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You might not recognize the country this CD comes from and you might never have heard about it but once you listen to this CD you will know Yiddish soul is well and alive through out the centuries and the geography.

This quartet sings 'A Capella' beautiful Yiddish folk songs and Khassidishe Nigunim with a quality that has given them multiple well-deserved international awards. When you listen to it you will enjoy the freshness of their voices and the deep tradition of their songs which encompass a famous folk song of the 1920's born among the many farm collectives created throughout the Soviet Union which in some places became a chant closely related to the Jewish country of Birobidzan...

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Believe it or not...we received this recording by Masha Yacubovich from Uzbekistan. 17 songs written between 1850 and 1928.

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Yiddish Songs - From My Heritage is the title of this CD we just received from Mexico.

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The Center of Jewish Education in Ukraine sent us this recording, containing the traditional dance "Mitzve Tanz"

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A half Sephard and half Ashkenaz (Ashkephardic) singing Yiddish work songs. He also has recordings in Ladino.

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An album presented to Nekhama Lifshitz for her 70th. Birthday. We have selected two songs from this album

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From Israel...The Songs of The Murdered Jewish People. A Requiem after the poem by Itzhak Katzenelson.

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A self proclaimed fourth generation Klezmer from San. Diego.

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This CD contains a rich mixture of jazz, Dixieland, klezmer and Yiddish secular music.

The list of songs include a wonderful combination of all kinds of music from the "Anti-Fascist March" and "Meshugas", to "The Nice Jewish Wedding in New Orleans" and "Babes in White Satin"!

The performance is first class and although not all songs would easily qualify as Jewish but certainly not as Klezmer music it is a record worth having where everybody will find something they like.

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Absolutely haunting and diverse group of songs especially love Durme and the Renditin she gives it on this album. A joy to hear over and over again - Ricky Reed.

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There are only a few albums that are wholly satisfying whether it's the music, the vocals or accompaniment, the selection or arrangements. One new album that nicely fits the bill is the Suvenir Kantigas en Ladino recently released on CD by Betty Klein of Jerusalem. It's simple: It's beautiful. On much of this album are newly composed songs to newly composed Ladino poetry. Klein sings and plays variously guitar, celtic harp, piano, keyboard, accordion, bouzouki, mandolin, flute, recorder, oud, percussion, as well as writing the compositions and making the arrangements.

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Sacred, soulful and romantic music from ancient Judeo Spanish tradition made more accessible to modern listeners with contemporary instrumentation, strong vocals and middle eastern rhythms sung in Ladino.

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"thrilling and haunting" The Times
"A superior collection of first-rate musicians" Songlines Magazine
"carnival-like exuberance ... enjoyable and virtuosic" FROOTS Magazine
Joglaresa has a sound that is at once traditional and contemporary - combining elements of Middle Eastern, Spanish and North African musics - all underpinned by the Celtic and folk-revival upbringing of half the band… With oud, darabuka, bendir, guitar and cláirseach and searing vocals, they meld together a sound that is both extrovert and intimate.

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Betty Klein presents a vivid collection of f selected Ladino folk songs beautifully musicalized including old classics like "Para que Me Pario Mama?", "Pamparampam " as well as new songs like "La Vida es una Sinema" (life is like a movie) and Israeli hits like "Yerushalaim de Oro", beautifully sung by a performer that clearly loves and enjoys her folklore.

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Rivka's voice brings a new depth to the long and beautiful Ladino musical tradition. Listen to some samples of her music and enjoy this music as so many previous generations have done and as many more will.

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An unusual collection of Sephardi folk music sung a capella and ih some cases with the original instrruments and old rythms trying to recoup their original versions. For those who like pure folk and certainly Sephardi traditions and culture this is an impressive collection

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Rivka's voice brings a new depth to the long and beautiful Ladino musical tradition. Listen to some samples of her music and enjoy this music as so many previous generations have done and as many more will.

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Unique music from a unique duet.

The song we've selected, "Yo La Kería" has been largely known as "Donde estás corazón" supposedly composed by Luis Martínez Serrano (Mexican-Spaniard) around 1911.

According to its singer it is a Bosnian song of Ladino tradition.

We are investigating about this controversy. If you know about its real origin, please write us and let us know.

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This CD gathers diverse melodies from Spain, Morocco, Greece, Iraq and Israel. The selection features examples of secular tunes assimilated to liturgical texts, songs of praise, traditional melodies and paraliturgical songs

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The recording features love songs from the fifties like “Yatzanu At” or French songs like “Ahava bat Esrim,” the yearning of Rabbi Y. ha Levi to return to Zion (“Zion haLo Tishali”), children’s songs about Israel (“Amisrael”), about our love for the land of our ancestors (“Eretz, Eretz”) or a medley of famous songs for Israel’s Independence Day (“Zemer Lakh-Shibolet baSade-laMidbar”). It also includes optimistic songs like “Ten Li,” “Shir Hadash,” “Shiru Shir Amen” and true prayers like N. Shemer’s “Al Col Ele.” Ramón has composed a specially beautiful setting of “Libabtini” (You have enraptured my heart), romantic excerpt extracted from the Song of Songs

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In this unusual release Ramón Tasat has recorded Italian, Turkish and Spanish Jewish melodies from the Sephardic tradition by three talented and yet hardly known composers: Manuel García Morante, Alberto Hemsi and Federico Consolo.

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A truly unique CD of traditional music that expresses the poignant tragedy of the Sephardic People.

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Many people may be familiar with Yiddish or Sephardic songs, or perhaps some of the Hassidic music that has become so popular, fashionable, even, sometimes beyond the Jewish community. Some may know the kind of ‘cabaret Yiddish’ repertoire that I heard in my childhood; others may have heard a few Israeli songs from the 1950s and ’60s. Very early on in my research, however, I realised that Jewish music means far more than this. It is an entire world, spanning the globe, and I decided to reflect this as much as I could with this project.

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Ofri Eliaz gives Ladino another vision, almost as if it were a perspective from above. Eliaz designs (with the help of her musical producer Shai Bachar) Mediterranean flowing music; music which is both eastern and cosmopolitan, like a haute couture designer who makes the optimal ethnic dress, to 12 Ladino songs. The result is enchanting and intriguing. The Ladino receives a surprising twist; the title song has a Baroque quality. Fresh and interesting.

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New CD, limited edition home made, Sephardic, Ladino, a photo of Mor Karbasi on the CD and Labelled on the Back and Spine, 7 tracks, mostly original songs, a rare CD including Jewish Andalusian Music.

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This album includes a selection of seven wedding songs, six of which were taken from the tradition of Moroccan Spanish speaking communities. These songs accompany the different stages of the wedding.

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Trio Sefarad's interpretations are based on existing musicological studies, enriched through their own research and by their connection with the members of Sephardic communities in different countries. The music included in this CD proves it true. It also includes a booklet written in English, Spanish and French with information about Sephardic Music, History and more. Enjoy it!

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From Turkey, we received this new recording of Lina Kohen's 100 year old poems, "87 Anios Lo Ke Tengo"

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From Paraguay, Montserrat sent us her latest CD recorded in Israel. From this recording, we have included in our collection "Kuando el Rei Nimrod". Here we show a sample of "Adio Kerida", a "kantiga" from Bulgaria.

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A Jewish Odyssey, a compilation that explores the richness and diversity of Jewish music. From the Mediterranean flavors of Sephardic music to energetic and emotive klezmer, A Jewish Odyssey follows the long journey of Jewish music from the Middle East to Eastern Europe, Spain, Turkey, Italy, the USA, Israel and beyond.

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A release by the accomplished guitarist Gerard Edery, a Moroccan Jew with solid classical training and a smooth, warm voice, soprano Cassandra Hoffman and tasteful percussionist Rex Benincasa. Very appealing arrangements.

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Gerard Edery, a master of Sephardic song, turns Adina Ruskin's verses into a rich mixture of Latin American musical genres...the ability to combine Ms. Ruskin's lyrics and the emotional expressions into a single human outcry is remarkable...

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The Gerard Edery Ensemble explores the rich complex of varied musical traditions bequeathed to us by a cosmopolitan Renaissance civilization that reached its peak in The Golden Age of Spain.

Commanding songs in some dozen languages, including English, French, Spanish, Ladino, Hebrew and Arabic, these gifted musicians engage the antique repertoire as a living legacy, combining stylistic authority with an immense creative flair.

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Even when they seemed to have taken their own routes, the truth is that both the African-American and the Jewish experience in America are as close as ever and will keep on developing side by side since anything that happens to one will affect the second one.

On a positive note In this record both musical experiences come together to create a unique mix and a new sound for these communities.

"Sha Shtil" brings together the rhythms of Eastern Europe with the ones from Western Africa to create a rich melody worth of the best American tradition.

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In collaboration with The Village Temple in New York City, The Gerard Edery Ensemble’s latest release is an offering of spiritual songs from Morocco, Persia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Spain and Portugal as well as original songs composed by Gerard Edery and based on sacred texts. Sung in English, Hebrew, Ladino and Arabic. Includes Adon Olam, Eli Eliyahu, Ya Ribon, L’Cha Dodi, Los Bilbilicos, To Everything There is a Season, Mi Ze Yemalel and many more with full lyrics and translations.

The name of this CD, Sing to the Eternal, conveys the hope that it will be a pathway for all who wish to enter into a musical dialogue with our Creator, our People and with all of humanity. The original songs, arrangements and translations reflect our belief that we cannot create the definitive liturgical format and sound for our time, but need to be ever open to the musical traditions around us.

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From the oldest Sephardic traditions to the newest efforts to rescue its folklore comes this record which combines traditional melodies from all over the Sephardic world.

Real non-professional people recorded these melodies which will illuminate your tour through time and space around the Sephardic world of yesterday, today and tomorrow for your amazement and enjoyment.

Discover real folklore with this unique recording coordinated by Moshe Shaul, possibly one of the most knowledgeable and most enthusiastic supporters of Sephardic Culture.

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El Kante de Una Vida reflects, as its name imply, the songs of a lifetime.

Actually, it reflects more the songs of a people since it encompasses a large selection of Ladino folk songs and a second CD of liturgical and nursery rhymes translated into Hebrew.

A CD you will surely enjoy. The booklet includes the copy for the first CD's 29 Ladino songs -in Ladino- and the text, in Hebrew only, for the second CD translations.

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En este CD topamos tredje Kantigas escritas por la escritora i "reyna de los kuentos", Matilda Koén Sarano, i una otra traducida por eya del ebreo al ladino y eskrita por Danya Haim. El sujeto sentral de estas kantigas es el amor: amor por el kriador y amor por la persona, ke no konose frenos ni limitos, kon la alegría y la tristeza que están atadas endjuntos.

El kompozitor de las melodías de las kantigas es Avraham Reuveni, ke no aze parte de los djudíos sefaradís, mas sus kalidades y sus talentos le dieron la inspirasión a kompozar de estas "perlas de Espanya", múzika en estil latino moderno ke se adapta a la fuente de la kuala toma Matilda Koén-Sarano los sujetos de sus kreasiones.

- Dr. Abraham Haim

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Yahudice is the name used for the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) language of the Jewish population in the Ottoman times.

This album presents Ladini repertoire from a different perspective. It deals with urban music from Istambul, Izmir, Thessalonika and Jerusalem.

A 168 pages booklet complements this amazing recording.

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Sephardic music in Judeo Spanish and Ladino. Jak Esim is one of the most important people in the world with his researches and collection of songs in this field.

They make a contemporary, polyponic interpretation true to its authenticity with their group consisting of prominent musicians of Turkey.

The group aims to introduce the Sephardic music to the international arts platform in the most efficient way and starting with this ethnic structure they also aim to form different vibrations.

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Dos autores se adjuntaron para ofresernos el fruto de su kreasión en un kampo orijinal i ezmoviente: kantigas con palavras i muzika djudeo-espanyolas.

Los sujetos de estas kantigas son muy variados: ay kantigas de amor, de despartisión y de selo, ay un kante de kuna, ay kantigas de famiya, de amor a Yerushaláyim.

Este es un tentativo inovador ke merese muestras felisitasiones.

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Matilda Koén-Serrano mos sorprende kada vez de muevo. Ainda no eskapimos de gustar sus "Kuentos", ke ya tenemos delantre de mozotros un ermozo i enteresante livro de kantes i romanzas en djudeo-espanyol...

ITZHAK NAVON
Sinkén Prezidente del Estado d'Israel

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Matilda and Aharon Cohen
Phone: 02-652-3864
paz3@zahav.net.il

The songs in this recording include some romanzas (ballads) that are sung only in Jerusalem in their own dialect.

Yizhak Levy, Moshe Attias, and currently Matilda Koén-Serrano and others have preserved this songs. The lyrics can be found in the book "Vini Kantaremos", by Matilda Koén-Serrano.

To Buy This CD or Cassette
Matilda and Aharon Cohen
Phone: 02-652-3864
paz3@zahav.net.il

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To Buy This Cassette
Matilda and Aharon Cohen
Phone: 02-652-3864
paz3@zahav.net.il

The disk cost is $12 Dollars each plus postage.

To Buy This CD
Phone: 00 9722-566-3637
betyk@012.net.il

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Also from Philadelphia we received this very unique CD of non-western Hebrew spiritual music in the rhythmic traditions of the Middle East.

Not for everybody since a special sensibility is required to fully enjoy this performance but, for those who get it, it is a beautiful piece of art.

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We just received this CD from San Diego California, including the most important songs for Shabbat.

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The Sheba Choir, is a group formed by Ethiopian children in Israel, whose travels have extended thorugh out the world.
We have selected for your enjoyment "Israeli Song", a beatiful melody performed in Hebrew.

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A Jewish Odyssey, a compilation that explores the richness and diversity of Jewish music. From the Mediterranean flavors of Sephardic music to energetic and emotive klezmer, A Jewish Odyssey follows the long journey of Jewish music from the Middle East to Eastern Europe, Spain, Turkey, Italy, the USA, Israel and beyond.

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From Irak we received this wonderful CD, containing Songs of Praise, Shbaboth and Pizmoneem, in the Babylonian Jewis Tradition, as sung in Babylon and several Sephardi Communities.

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Shirona combines two rare gifts in this magnificent debut album - a breathtakingly beautiful voice and a talent for composing melodies that capture the soul of the listener.

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This CD features 14 songs of the Bene Israel musical tradition that have been recorded in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, in 1996. The songs are performed by male singers mostly in Hebrew, and a few in Aramaic and Marathi - the regional language of Maharashtra.

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After the June 1941 pogroms in Baghdad which left hundred of Iraqi Jews dead and created the atmosphere for the closure, 10 years later, of could possibly be called the oldest Jewish community in the world few new recordings of their millennial tradition have been made.

Now with Treasures, Songs of Praise in the Iraqi Jewish tradition the group, Rivers of Babylon directed by Sara Manasseh brings as a selection of 13 happy melodies to enjoy and to use as our own key to learn and share the joy and traditions of this very old Sephardic community.

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Even when they seemed to have taken their own routes, the truth is that both the African-American and the Jewish experience in America are as close as ever and will keep on developing side by side since anything that happens to one will affect the second one.

On a positive note In this record both musical experiences come together to create a unique mix and a new sound for these communities.

"Sha Shtil" brings together the rhythms of Eastern Europe with the ones from Western Africa to create a rich melody worth of the best American tradition.

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Multi-instrumentalist REBBESOUL brings a new voice to the sometimes stagnant realm of Jewish Music with this new CD.

His rock and world fusin stylings have a slinky Middle Eastern-sounding groove, and traditional Hebrew melodies are his inspiration.

This album has been dedicated to peace in Middle East and the rest of the world.

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The Absolutely Complete Introduction to Klezmer Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi "A Wedding without a klezmer is was worse than a funeral without tears." Whether the musicians played violin, clarinet, flute, or bass, their music was the ever-present accompaniment to all Jewish celebrations. Klezmer music is the window to the soul of Yiddish culture. The music on this CD will give the listener a spark to their feet, a tear to the eyes, and a smile to the lips. To all aspiring klezmer musicians and enthusiasts; "klezmer is alive and here to stay" - Yale Strom.

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Disfruto mucho su musica, exelente trabajo, gracias por compartirlo y por hacer un Klezmer tan rico, un abrazo desde Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico. - J.L.V.Chelo.

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"Sons Of The Highest" is a full length CD created under the auspices of The Center For Jewish Culture and Creativity as part of The Center's comprehensive international Niggun focus project.

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Many of these intense and beautiful works are well known to classical music lovers. Richard Locker is well known for his expressive and stylish performance of solo and chamber music masterworks.

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