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This song is sung at Peysekh seyders, and is roughly the equivalent of the Hebrew “Echod mi yodea?” And it’s a true folk song – it seems that every published or recorded version has a different title, and significant differences in both the melody and the words. And it seems that for anyone who knows some version of the song, *that* version is their favorite… Whichever version you like, it falls into a category known as cumulative songs. And the JPPC is performing it in the dialect in which it is most often heard.

This video can be viewed with subtitles in English, transliterated Yiddish, and, for the first time, Yiddish in the Yiddish alphabet! English and transliterated Yiddish should appear by default. For the Yiddish alphabet, click on the Settings button in the lower right corner of the YouTube video player. Subtitles can also be turned off by clicking on “CC.”

Traditional Yiddish Passover song with Aramaic title
Akin to the English “Who Knows One?”
Choral arrangement: Binyumen Schaechter (2017-18)

This choral arrangement was funded by a grant from The Marinus and Minna B. Koster Foundation.

Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC
דער ייִדישער פֿילהאַרמאָנישער פֿאָלקסכאָר
Binyumen Schaechter, conductor
בנימין שעכטער, דיריגענט

Filmed live in performance
October 14, 2018 • Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
as part of the encore concert of
“To Everything There Is a Season: The Year in Yiddish Song”

(World Premiere: June 10, 2018, Merkin Concert Hall)

Videography: Asaf Blasberg: http://asafblasberg.com
​Post-Production: Isaac Bleaman, Avi Eisen, Leyzer Gillig, Libi Miransky, Binyumen Schaechter, and Sam Zerin