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Mentshn-Fresser, feat. Sveta Kundish & Daniel Kahn. This 100-Year-Old Yiddish Pandemic Song Could Have Been Written Today

July 23, 2020/By/In/0 Comment

In 1916, Solomon Smulevitz, a Yiddish musician and entertainer who immigrated to America from Belarus, wrote “Mentshn-Fresser.” The song’s title means “man eater,” or “devourer of mankind.” Written by Solomon Small (Smulewitz), 1916, Hebrew Publishing Co. DI MENTSHN-FRESSERS: Sveta Kundish: Vocals Daniel Kahn: Vocals, drum Patrick Farrell: Accordion, toy piano, sfx Christian Dawid: Tuba, trombone, […]

“A dank dir, mayn lebn” – Chilean classic “Gracias a la vida”, sung in Yiddish by Roman Grinberg

July 17, 2020/By/In/0 Comment

Maybe the most beautiful hymn to life ever written with no need of further introductions or explanations. It is a song telling everything in itself, and going directly inside the core of everyone of us. It was written 1965 by Violeta Parra, who dedicated it to the object of her love disillusion, Gilbert Favre, just […]

Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn, byThe Irving Fields Trio (V4)

July 16, 2020/By/In/0 Comment

Kh’vel dir zogn, dir glaykh tzu hern Az du zolst mir libe derklern Ven du redst mit di oygn Volt ikh mit dir gefloygn vu du vilst S’art mikh nit on Ven du host a bisele seykhl Un ven du vaytzt dayn kindershn shmeykhl Vendu bist vild vi indianer Bist afile a galitsianer Zog ikh: […]

Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn, By Tatiana Amirov (V1)

July 16, 2020/By/In/0 Comment

גלײַך בײַם אָנהייב פֿון איר אייגנאַרטיקן נוסח פֿון „בײַ מיר ביסטו שיין‟ האָבן די ריכטער פֿון דער פּאָפּולערער טעלעוויזיע־סעריע „קול פֿון אוקראַיִנע‟ זיך צעטאַנצט אין זייערע שטולן, און גערן געוואָלט, אַז טאַטיאַנע אַמיראָוואַ זאָל ווערן אַ טייל פֿון זייער מאַנשאַפֿט. אַמיראָוואַס דזשעז־נוסח פֿונעם ליד האָט באַקומען אַ שטייענדיקע אָוואַציע, אָבער אַפֿילו מער פֿונעם ליד אַליין […]

Khosn Kale Mazl Tov + wedding songs

July 16, 2020/ByJewish Website/In/0 Comment

Song Mazl Tov Dances Artist Maxwell Street Klezmer Band Album You Should Be So Lucky! Licensed to YouTube by Live Nation Video Network; BMI – Broadcast Music Inc., and 2 Music Rights Societies Song Wedding Dance Artist Fiddler on the Roof Orchestra;Milton Greene Licensed to YouTube by SME (on behalf of RCA Victor); PEDL, LatinAutor […]

Avreiml der Marvikher, performed by Florian Pollak, Roman Grinberg and the Vienna JazzKlez Band

July 16, 2020/By/In/0 Comment

Mordechai Gebirtig, born in 1877 in Krakow, Poland, was a Yiddish folk poet and songwriter. Gebirtig had three daughters, for whom he wrote and performed his poems. The words were set to improvised melodies, and most of his songs resemble entries in a diary. Many of Gebirtig’s poems contain themes of eastern European Jewish life […]

Boris Sandler, Treplekh aroyf tsu a nes: a sibe far a mesibe

July 15, 2020/ByCongress for Jewish Culture/InArticles, Featured, Music, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

On Sunday 12 July 2020, the Congress for Jewish Culture together with the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, and Yung Yidish of Tel Aviv honored the Yiddish writer Boris Sandler, celebrating his recent publication of 4 new works entirely in Yiddish with a program entitled. Steps up to a Miracle: a Cause for […]

“Baby It’s Cold Outside” in Yiddish! – קעצעלע, ס’ברענט דער פֿראָסט

July 9, 2020/ByJewish Website/In/0 Comment

Music and original English lyrics: Frank Loesser (1910-1969) Yiddish lyrics: Binyumen Schaechter (2015) Performed by Cantor Joshua Breitzer and Donna Breitzer Piano accompaniment by Seth Weinstein Filmed live in performance June 5, 2016 • Symphony Space, NYC as part of the choral concert “To Life, To Laugh, L’Chaim!” Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC דער […]

Vira Lozinsky sings a love song to Paris

July 7, 2020/By/In/0 Comment

Vira Lozinsky, one of today’s outstanding Yiddish singers,blends her singing with a variety of musical styles from East European folk (Klezmer, Gypsy, Romanian, Russian) to South American Tangos. Her repertoire includes a new material , as well as Yiddish folk songs, songs of Bessarabian, Romanian and Polish Jewish poets, and of classical and modern Yiddish […]

Paul Robeson sang in Yiddish

July 6, 2020/By/In/0 Comment

I still remember the rich bass baritone voice of Paul Robeson singing “Old Man River” in the 1936 movie Show Boat. That was his song and I thought no one else could match his performance. Unfortunately, I doubt if anyone under the age of 60 would remember Robeson in spit of his worldwide fame. By chance someone just sent […]