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 […]
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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 […]
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Four Yiddish songs to honor The Fourth of July — English translations provided — Performed by the Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor “The Star-Spangled Banner” in Yiddish! “America the Beautiful” in Yiddish! “America” (Yiddish song about Mount Rushmore) “Fourth of July” (a.k.a. Zman matn kheyruseynu) Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thejppc Subscribe on YouTube http://bit.ly/1qVtVpe TheJPPC.org
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The Chicago-based a cappella music group Listen Up! has given us some really great music, from this “Old Town Road” remix using the words of Dror Yikra, to this great a cappella cover of Matishyahu’s “Shine On You!” The band brings delivers beautiful vocals and is one of the only Jewish co-ed a cappella groups in the viral video-making biz. […]
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אין ליכט פֿון די באַנײַטע פּראָטעסטן לטובֿת די רעכט פֿון אַפֿריקאַנער אַמעריקאַנער, איז כּדאַי ווידער זיך צוצוהערן צום רירנדיקן נוסח פֿונעם הימען פֿון דער אַמעריקאַנער בירגעררעכט־באַוועגונג „מיר וועלן איבערלעבן“, וואָס מיישקע אַלפּערט, פֿראַנק לאָנדאָן און דוד קראַקאַוער האָבן אויספֿגעפֿירט אויפֿן קראָקאָווער ייִדישן קולטור־פֿעסטיוואַל מיט צוויי יאָר צוריק. https://www.facebook.com/reyzlz/videos/10156651342259201/?t=0 זייער נוסח פֿאַררופֿט זיך ניט בלויז אויפֿן […]
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Listen and enjoy the quality and content of the world Yiddish music concert organized by Chivis Bialik with Bet-el México for everyone! A muzikalisher ovnt of Yiddish mit internatzionale zinguers. A musical night in Yiddish with singers from all over the world ” https://www.facebook.com/betelmxoficial/videos/164981014903592/
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In a new video produced by the Forverts, Berlin-based Yiddish singer and songwriter Daniel Kahn performs his own recent Yiddish translation of Bob Dylan’s 1967 song, “I Shall Be Released”. Kahn, lead singer of the band Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird, previously translated and performed the late Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in Yiddish, which appeared […]
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This song by Herman Yablokoff tells the story of an orphan cigarette vendor who stands in a corner selling “Papirosn” on a cold afternoon in the rain. PAPIROSN פאפיעראסן A kalte nakht, a nebldike finster umetum sheyt a yingele fartroiert un kukt zikh arum Fun regn shtist im hor a vant, A koshikl trogt er […]
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Zog Nit Keynmol Az du Gueist Dem Letztn Veg… Never say that you are walking on your last road… With these words starts the song written by Hirsh Glick in the Vilna Forest for the Partisans. With time, the song spread through all the forests, not just of Eastern Europe but actually from all over the world […]
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Zog Nit Keynmol Az du Gueist Dem Letztn Veg… Never say that you are walking on your last road… With these words starts the song written by Hirsh Glick in the Vilna Forest for the Partisans. With time, the song spread through all the forests, not just of Eastern Europe but actually from all over the world […]
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