Klezmer Juice Yiddish Tango, San Telmo Buenos Aires
From a concert in San Telmo, Buenos Aires. January 2008
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Tango Argentino: “Duelo Criollo” – parody in Yiddish
“Duelo Criollo” as “Rivka Ben Zabes”; performer: Bernard Potock. Original, Argentine lyrics: Mientras la luna serena bana con su luz de plata como un sollozo de pena se oye cantar su canción; la canción dulce y sentida que todo el barrio escuchaba cuando el silencio reinaba en el viejo caserón. Cuentan que fue la piba […]
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Jewish Tango Cabaret Los Angeles
Jewish Tango Cabaret is a performance of tango during the second world war, and the holocaust. The era is captured through the use of jewish and yiddish music and tango’s. The professional tango dancers from Buenos Aires, Argentina dance to songs such as By Mir Viz tu Shein, and other deeply touching tangos.
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Tango Rebeka – Zofia Terné
Still I would call it Old Polish Tango although it is — in text and music — so Jewish. There were many songs composed in Poland in pre-war time meant for audience speaking Polish language, regardless their roots or ancestry. Some of them were picturing people, their habits and customs, according to Jewish tradition; no […]
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Judischer Tango: Ich hab’ kein Heimatland
“I have no Motherland – Jewish tango” – full title. Marek Weber Orchester Refraingesang: John Hendrik Electrola E.G. 3072 Matr.: OB 690-1 1933. This Jewish “Heimweh Lied” was recorded in Berlin as late as 1933.
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Tango in Yiddish: “Papirosen” – Zully Goldfarb
Suggestion of my YT friend, albertdiner: „yiddish tango” – Papirosen, sung by Zully Goldfarb in a contemporary, Argentine fashion. First words of the refrain: „Kupitie (…) papirosen !” are actually very close to Polish „Kupcie (…) papierosy !” (Buy…cigarettes !) and may be indicative of factual roots of this moving song performed with such a […]
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A Yiddisher Tango “Tsvey Shvartse Oygn”
A Yiddishe Tango by Jacob Sandler and Mark Chagal http://www.Myzeidi.com
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Russian tango from Paris: Vertinsky: Tango Magnolia, c.1929
Alexandr Nicolaievich WERTYNSKI born 1889 in Kiev, died 1957 in Leningrad, USSR (Sankt Petersburg, Russia). ) A legandary Russian singer and composer of the romances, poet & troubadour of the „white” emigrant Russian tea-rooms in Paris of the 1920s. As a member of the avant-guarde Russian cabaret „Blue Bird (Siniaja Ptica) in the midddle of […]
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“Mein Idishe Momme” as a tango in Russian
Famous “Yiddish song” in old Russian arrangement. Outstanding interpretation of the great song about the mother’s love to the child who tragically got lost. Usually sung by ladies-singers.
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