B-007(l)

Hekhalil — החליל

Author:

Goldberg, Leah — גולדבּרג, לאה

Composer:

Zahavi, Dovid — זהבי, דוד

Genre:

Literary Origin/Israeli

Subject:

Flute/Shepherd/Occupation/Galilee

Song comment:

"The Flute"

Origin:

Alb I-010(a)

Transliteration:

Alb I-010(a)

Translation:

Alb I-010(a)/Alb D-012(h)

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

6397

Vocal:

Bikel, Theodore

First line:

Hekhalil hu pashut veadin vekolo kemo kol shel halev

First line (Hebrew):

החליל הוא פשוט ועדין וקולו כמו קול של הלב

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Part of Lecture on Origin and History of Jewish Music.

Language:

Hebrew

Ladino Song (Part Of Lecture)

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

8823

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Compared with melody in "La Traviata"

Language:

Ladino

Bikel Family nign

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

2402

Vocal:

Bikel, Theodore

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Part of lecture on History and Origin of Jewish Music

Style:

Nigun

Bikel, Theodore (Lecture Intro)

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

2404

Vocal:

Bikel, Theodore

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Martha Schlamme - Part of Lecture

Style:

Spoken Word

Di Grine Kuzine — די גרינע קוזינע

Also known as:

Kuzine (Di Grine Kuzine)

Author:

Leyzerovitz, Yakov — לײזעראָװיץ, יעקבֿ

Composer:

Schwartz, Abe — שװאַרץ, אײב

Genre:

Immigration/Lament

Subject:

Immigration/Poverty/Occupation/Milliner/Aging/Disillusion

Origin:

Mayzl 600/Alb Z-012(a)/Levin N 92

Transliteration:

Levin N 92/Alb B-007(c)/Alb Z-012(a)/Gottlieb 290/Alb B-095(b)

Translation:

Levin N 92/Alb Z-012(a)/Alb B-007(c)/Gottlieb 290/Alb B-095(b)/Alb M-068(a)04

Music:

Warem 45/Alb Z-012(a)/Levin N 92

Additional song notes:

See "My Little Cousin" for American swing version. Lyrics claimed by Hyman Prizant and others. Text is by Leyzerovitz as credited by Meizel. See Max Rosenfeld's papers re respecting Leyzerovitz's loss of copyright lawsuit. See Gottlieb p. 147. See Ephemera 80 for singable English adapation by Edith Finell. See also ephemera 1458 for tarnslit and translate What's Not To Like 2017

Related information in folder 408:

Comments:

1. Letter from Shlomo Ben Israel in Yiddish Forverts of February 4, 1983 titled, "Interesante Faktn Vegn Y. Leyzerovitsh in zayn lid, Di Grine Kuzine". 2. 2. Original text with 8 verses 3. Transliteration and singable Yiddish translation by Edith Finell.

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

3583

Vocal:

Bikel, Theodore

First line:

S'iz tsu mir gekumen a kuzine, sheyn vi gold iz zi geven...

First line (Yiddish):

ס'איז צו מיר געקומען אַ קוזינע, שײן װי גאָלד איז זי געװען...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Lecture on Origins and History of Jewish Music

Language:

Yiddish

Di Ban — די באַן

Author:

Ginsberg, S. — גינסבערג, ס.

Composer:

Marek, P. — מאַרעק, פּ.

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

3517

Vocal:

Bikel, Theodore

First line:

Tsu hot men azoyns gezen, tsu hot men azoyns gehert,

First line (Yiddish):

צו האָט מען אַזױנס געזען, צו האָט מען אַזױנד געהערט,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Part of Lecture on Origin and History of Jewish Music.

Language:

Yiddish

Di Mizinke Oysgegebn — די מיזינקע אױסגעגעבן

Also known as:

Di Rod (Kales Tsad)

Also known as:

Mizinke Tants

Also known as:

The Krenzl Dance

Also known as:

Wedding Dance (Di Mizinke...)

Author:

Warshavsky, Mark M. — װאַרשאַװסקי, מאָרק מ.

Composer:

Warshavsky, Mark M. — װאַרשאַװסקי, מאָרק מ.

Genre:

Folk/Marriage/Family

Subject:

Youngest Child/Marriage/Celebration/Klezmer/Guests/Family

Origin:

Warsh Ye Yid 13/Alb G-026(a)/Alb O-001(b)/Alb R-022(a)/Alb B-007(b)ML MTAG 54

Transliteration:

ML MTAG 54/Alb S-083(a)/Alb O-001(b)/Alb G-022(a)/Alb L-009(a)/Kinderbuch 172/

Translation:

Kinderbuch 172/Alb G-022(a)/Alb O-001(b)/Alb S-083(a)/Alb B-007(b)/Sh Sh 198

Music:

ML MTAG 55/Kinderbuch 172/SM Scher 13

Additional song notes:

Originally entitled "Di Rod (Kales Tsad)" "(צד כּלהס) The Youngest Daughter Married/ Org, Translit & Translat in Alb B-211(a)/ Translit in Alb P-038(d)

Related information in folder 91:

Comments:

1. Sheet music of song titled "Titina". Lyrics by Bertal-Maubon & Ronn. Music by Leo Daniderff published by Harms, NY, 1922. Melody accompanies Charley Chaplin song and dance routine in "City Lights". Melody has a strinking similarity to "Di Mezinke Oysgegebn"' 2. Article in Wikipedia as of 12/8/2009 titled "Je cherche Apres Titine" (I Am Looking For Titine) giving a history of the song.

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

3693

Vocal:

Bikel, Theodore

First line:

Hekher! Beser! Di rod, di rod makht greser! Groys hot mikh..

First line (Yiddish):

העכער! בעסער! די ראָד, די ראָד מאַכט גרעסער! גרױס האָט מיך גאָט..

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Originally entitled "Di Rod (Kales Tsad)" "(צד כּלהס) ראָד "די

Language:

Yiddish

Dos Lid Fun Broyt (Warshavsky) — דאָס ליד פֿון ברױט (וואַרשאַווסקי)

Author:

Warshavsky, Mark M. — װאַרשאַװסקי, מאָרק מ.

Composer:

Warshavsky, Mark M. — װאַרשאַװסקי, מאָרק מ.

Genre:

Folk/Pioneer/Zionist/Hymn

Subject:

Independance/Sustenance/Farming/Sheaves/Harvest

Origin:

ML MTAG 102/Alb G-022(a)/

Transliteration:

Alb L-049(a)/ML MTAG 102/Alb G-022(a)/Ephemera 1458 -2015

Translation:

Alb G-022(a)/Alb L-049(a)Ephemera 1458 -2015

Music:

ML MTAG 102

Additional song notes:

Melody from Russian song entitled "Volga, Volga" Ephemera 1458: See 2015 program for translat and translit

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

4084

Vocal:

Bikel, Theodore

First line:

Groyser got, mir zingen lider, undzer hilf bistu undz aleyn,

First line (Yiddish):

גרױסער גאָט, מיר זינגען לידער, אונדזער הילף ביסטו אלײן,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Part of Lecture on Origin and History of Jewish Music.

Language:

Yiddish

Eliyahu Hanovi — אליהוּ הנביא

Also known as:

Elijah

Genre:

Holiday/Peysekh/Havdola

Subject:

Elijah/Prophet

Origin:

Alb M-029(a)/Coopersmith NJS 56/Alb Y-003(b)/Alb B-033(f)

Transliteration:

Alb M-029(a)/Coopersmith NJS 56/Alb Y-003(b)/Alb B-067(a)

Translation:

Alb M-029(a)/Coopersmith NJS 56/Alb B-067(a)

Music:

Coopersmith NJS 56

Related information in folder 1118:

Comments:

1. Article in American Music, Spring Issue 2011 by Michael Ochs titled "Welcoming Elijah in 1927: Medelssohn in Yiddish Socialist Clothing, describing an unusal version of Mendelssohn's "Elijah" performed by a left wing amateur chorous in Chicago on May 15th, 1927. The chorus, Freiheit Gezang Farein, was directed and founded by Jacob Schaeffer

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

4596

Vocal:

Bikel, Theodore

First line:

Eliyahu hanovi, eliyahu hatishbi, eliyahu, eliyahu,

First line (Hebrew):

אליהוּ הנביא, אליהו התּשבּי, אליהוּ, אליהוּ, אליהוּ הגלעדי,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Part of lecture on History and Origin of Jewish Music

Language:

Hebrew

Zol Nokh Zayn Shabos — זאָל נאָך זײַן שבּת

Also known as:

Got Fun Avrom (Golub)

Also known as:

Bobenyu (Golub)

Author:

Roisenblat, Chaim — רױזענבלאַט, הײם

Composer:

Golub, Solomon — גאָלוב, סאָלאָמאָן

Genre:

Literary Origin

Subject:

Shabos/Havdola/Grandmother

Origin:

ML PYP 274/ML PYS 207/Alb F-024(e)/GYF 68/Alb G-044(a)Sh Sh 273/SM 183/Box 8

Transliteration:

Alb B-007(c)/GYF 71/Alb K-047(a)/ML PYS 207

Translation:

Alb B-007(c)/GYF 71/Alb K-047(a)/Alb G-044(a)Sh Sh 272

Music:

Golub Songs 24

Additional song notes:

Shabos Should Not Be Over

Related information in folder 744:

Comments:

1. See folder 743

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

5764

Vocal:

Bikel, Theodore

First line:

Oy, bobenyu, zog nokh nisht "Got Fun Avrom", Vos iz dos...

First line (Yiddish):

אױ, באָבעניו, זאָג נאָך נישט "גאָט פֿון אַבֿרהם", װאָס איז דאָס מיט..

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Part of Lecture on Origin and History of Jewish Music.

Language:

Yiddish

Los Bilbilicos

Also known as:

The Night Birds

Also known as:

Amorosa (Cardoso)

Also known as:

Los Bilbilicos

Composer:

Cardoso, Jorge

Genre:

Sephardic/Love/Lament/Folk

Subject:

Birdsong/Nightingales/Blessing

Origin:

Alb L-024(b)/Alb K-023(a)/Alb R-033(a)/Alb B-067(a)/Alb R-001(b)

Translation:

Alb R-033(a)/Alb B-067(a)/Alb L-024(b)/Alb R-001(b)

Music:

Alb R-001(b)

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

9414

Vocal:

Bikel, Theodore

First line:

Los bibilicos cantan, En el arvol de la flor.

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

The birds sing sadly in the midst of nature's beauty.

Language:

Ladino

Mayn Yingele — מײַן ייִנגעלע

Also known as:

Ikh Hob A Kleyem Yingele

Author:

Rosenfeld, Morris — ראָזענפֿעלד, מאָריס

Genre:

Literary Origin/Labor/Sweatshop

Subject:

Father/Son/Labor/Sweatshop

Origin:

ML MTAG 148/Levin N 82/Belarsky 249/Yardeini 92/Alb J-034(a)/Sh Sh 155

Transliteration:

ML MTAG 148/Alb L-004(a)/Levin N 82/Belarsky 249/Alb J-034(a)

Translation:

Alb L-004(a)/Levin N 83/Alb K-059(d)/Alb J-025(a)/J-034(a)/ Sh Sh 156

Music:

Yardeini 92/Levin N 82/Belarsky 167/

Additional song notes:

My Little Boy

Related information in folder 1459:

Comments:

1 3/19/2015 Email originally sent to Sender Botwinik by Itzik Gottesman and forwarded by Botwinik to Freedman on March 19, 2015

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

10055

Vocal:

Bikel, Theodore

Piano:

Weiner, Lazar — װײַנער, לאַזאַר

First line:

Ikh hob a kleynem yingele, a zunele gor fayn, Ven ikh...

First line (Yiddish):

איך האָב אַ קלײנעם ייִנגעלע, אַ זונעלע גאָר פֿײַן, װען איך דערזע...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Part of Lecture/History and Origin of Jewish Music./Fragment

Language:

Yiddish

Ose Shalom (Hirsh) — יעשׂה שלוֹם (הירש)

Composer:

Hirsh, Nurit — הירש, נורית

Genre:

Religious/Prayer

Subject:

Peace

Origin:

Alb C-003(j)

Transliteration:

HAL 28

Translation:

Alb C-003(j)

Music:

HAL 28

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

11564

Vocal:

Bikel, Theodore

First line:

Ose shalom bimromov, hu ya'ase shalom olenyu, v'al kol...

First line:

עוֹשׂה שלוֹם בּמרוֹמיו הוּא יעשׂה שלוֹם עלינוּ ועל כּל ישׂראל, ואיםרוּ..

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Nye Bayussya (I Fear No One) — ניע באַ יוס יאַ

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

11278

Vocal:

Bikel, Theodore

First line:

Nye bayussya nikavo i nye veryu nikamu

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Lecture on Origins and History of Jewish Music

Poale Tsien Shvue (Variant) — פּועלי ציון שבֿועה (װאַריאַנט)

Related information in folder 600:

Comments:

1. Article published in Yiddish Forward of 2/15/2002 by Chane Mlotek, including text of the Poale Tsien Shvue as originally written by Yeshua Pelovitz.

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

12285

Author:

Felovitsh, Y. — פֿעלאָװיטש, י,

Composer:

Bernstein, Abraham M. — בערנשטײן, אַבֿרהם משה )

Vocal:

Bikel, Theodore

First line:

Mir heybn di hent kegn mizrekh un shvern, unzere trern mit..

First line:

מיר הײבן די הענט קעגן מיזרח און שװערן, אונדזערע טרערן מיט...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Part of Lecture on Origin and History of Jewish Music.

Un Du Akerst — און דו אַקערסט

Author:

Zhitlovsky, Khaim — זשיטלאָװסקי, חיים

Genre:

Literary Ortigin/Class/Revolutionary/Protest

Subject:

Labor/Work/Poverty/Exploitation

Origin:

Vinkov 4 06/ML MTAG 90

Transliteration:

Vinkov 4 06/ML MTAG 90

Translation:

Vinkov 4 06/ML MTAG 90

Music:

Vinkov 4 06/ML MTAG 90

Additional song notes:

And You Plow

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

15894

Author:

Zhitlovsky, Khaim — זשיטלאָװסקי, חיים

Vocal:

Bikel, Theodore

First line:

Un du akerst un du zeyst, un du fiterst un du neyst,

First line:

און דו אַקערסט און דו זײסט, און דו פֿיטערסט און דו נײסט,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Part of Lecture on Origin and History of Jewish Music.

Language:

English/Yiddish

Zeira, Mordecai, Unidentifed Song

On album:

B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music (Lecture))

Track ID:

17968

Composer:

Zeira, Mordecai — זעירא, מרדכי

Vocal:

Bikel, Theodore

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Part of Lecture on Origin and History of Jewish Music.