Fiddle Yiddish Song – by Misha Marmar
Yiddish Russian Song by Misha Marmar. For more information about Myzeidi Video Productions, please visit: www.myzeidi.com
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My Yiddishe Tate Clarinet – “Main Tatnz Klarinet”
My Yiddishe Tate Clarinet. Yiddish Song ” Main Tatnz Klarinet” by Yaakov Shapiro. (My Father’s Clarinet)” …Yiddish was the everyday language of European Jews for a thousand years. It was also the foundation of a flourishing culture that was almost wiped out in the Holocaust. Yiddish does not thrive in Israel, which adopted Hebrew as […]
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Klezmer Constervatory Band – Rumenie, Rumenie
Jewish klezmer music from Romania. Jewish Romanians, never forget where you come from!
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Drey zikh, dreydele – The Lori Cahan-Simon Ensemble
Drey zikh, dreydele (only about half of it, unfortunately) – with David’s adorable daughter dancing.
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Theodore Bikel sings Yiddishe Song Shabes Shabes
How one treats an heirloom is a measure of one’s character. You can squander or pawn an heirloom, or you can honor and cherish it. Looking around this world I observe so many who have carelessly given up the golden goblet of tradition in exchange for the plastic cup of assimilation. And in the rush […]
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Kinder, haynt iz khanuke – The Lori Cahan-Simon Ensemble
The Lori Cahan-Simon Ensemble, Lori on vocals, Walt Mahovlich (Harmonia) on accordion, David Chernyavsky on violin, at the Greater Washington JCC Chanukah concert in 2006. Video taken by Iosif Vaysman. The songs are “Kinder, haynt iz khanike”, “Mir zenen khanike likhtlekh”, and “Naftule, shpil es nokh a mol”, which we’ve transformed into “tsind es nokh […]
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Vayechulu Hashamaym – Hazan Ari Litvak
Vayechulu Hashamaym – Hazan Ari Litvak – CD Shira Chadasha
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Gimpel The Fool, Part 2
Ezra Schwartz’s beautiful animated drawings evoke the mythical Eastern European world – and eccentric Jewish logic – of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Gimpel the Fool. All his life the baker Gimpel accepted events without doubt because “Everything is possible.” He also ignored people’s ridicule and abuse, choosing to “let things pass.” This behavior has earned him […]
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Gimpel The Fool, Part 1
“Ezra Schwartz’s beautiful animated drawings evoke the mythical Eastern European world – and eccentric Jewish logic – of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Gimpel the Fool. All his life the baker Gimpel accepted events without doubt because “Everything is possible.” He also ignored people’s ridicule and abuse, choosing to “let things pass.” This behavior has earned him […]
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