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Fishalakh in Vaser (Fish in Water), a psycho song in Yiddish regarding love went bad with the “forshpil” group

September 11, 2020/By/In/0 Comment

די קאַפּעליע „פֿאָרשפּיל“, מיט דער זינגערין סאַשע לוריא בראָש, האָט לעצטנס אַרויסגעלאָזט אַן אַלבאָם „צוויי“. דאָס קאָמפּאַקטל האָט באַקומען אַ סך אָפּרופֿן אין דער אַמעריקאַנער ייִדישער פּרעסע צוליב אַ פּראָפֿיל פֿון דער קאַפּעליע, וואָס איז סינדיקירט געוואָרן דורך דער „ייִדישער טעלעגראַפֿישער אַגענטור.“ צווישן די לידער אויפֿן נײַעם אַלבאָם זענען צוויי ייִדישע באַלאַדעס פֿאַרבונדן מיט פֿאַרלוירענע ליבעס […]

“Arbetsloze Marsh”, written by Mordechai Gebirtig in 1938

August 21, 2020/By/InArticles, Featured, Music, Yiddish Vinkl/1 Comment

Lyrics Eyns, tzvey, dray, fir,arbetlose zenen mir, nisht gehert khadoshim lang, in fabrik der hamer-klang, s'lign keylium lang farguezn, 'snemt der shavert sey shoyn fresn, geyen mir arum in gas, vi di guevirim pust-un-pas. Eyns, tzvey, dray, fir,arbetlose zenen mir, on a begued on a heym, undzer bet iz erd un leym, hot nor ver [...] Read More

Zisl Slepovitch sings a Belarussian protest song in Yiddish

August 13, 2020/ByJewish Website/In/0 Comment

Belarussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has ruled with an iron fist for 26 years. Despite the changes in the countries that surround Belarus, this malicious anachronism remains in power, not allowing any freedom of speech and making itself big with Soviet symbols like Stalin’s. Since being elected for the first time in 1994, he has conducted […]

Di goldene pave / The golden peacock

August 7, 2020/ByJewish Website/InArticles, Featured, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Di goldene pave Iz di goldene pave gefloygn, gefloygn, Un di nakht hot geefnet di goldene oygn, Likhtiker mayner, shlof ayn. Di nakht hot geefnet di goldene oygn, Bin ikh fidl gevorn, un du der boygn, Umruiker mayner, shlof ayn. Bin ikh fidl gevorn un du der boygn, Un dos glik iber undz hot farlibt [...] Read More

Emlyn Hinton – Di Golden Pave (The Golden Peacock) guitar arrangement

August 7, 2020/By/In/0 Comment

My instrumental version of this beautiful song.

Di goldene pave / The golden peacock

August 5, 2020/ByJewish Website/In/1 Comment

Di goldene pave Iz di goldene pave gefloygn, gefloygn, Un di nakht hot geefnet di goldene oygn, Likhtiker mayner, shlof ayn. Di nakht hot geefnet di goldene oygn, Bin ikh fidl gevorn, un du der boygn, Umruiker mayner, shlof ayn. Bin ikh fidl gevorn un du der boygn, Un dos glik iber undz hot farlibt [...] Read More

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]