Belina: A Yiddishe Mamme
Music: Jack Yellen
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Yugnt Himn Still the Night Itsik Vitnberg Partisan
Vozes do Holocausto (Voices of the Holocaust) Conducted by Cícero Alves Filho (www.ciceroalvesfilho.com.br). Participação especial do ator Dan Stulbach ( O Léo de Queridos Amigos). Solistas: José Maria, Roxana, Ana Maria, Sergio Waintraub. Local: Teatro Cultura Artística, São Paulo, Brasil, Brazil. Yugnt Himen, Still the Night,Itsik Vitnberg, Partisan Anthem. Orquestração: Sheridan Seyfried.
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Bella Ciao (Mondine-Jazz-Grunge-English version, beautiful!)
About the song The song Bella Ciao was sung by the left anti-fascist resistance movement in Italy, a movement by anarchists, communists, socialists and other anti-fascist partisans. The author of the lyrics is unknown, and the music seems to come from an earlier folk song sung by riceweeders in the Po Valley. Another interpretation has [...]
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Pirates of Penzance – in Yiddish!
The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance will be performed in Yiddish, with French and English supertitles, at the Segal Centre from May 31 to June 16, 2009. Videographer John Mahoney. www.montrealgazette.com/arts
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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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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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