Look up artist Wolfson, A. L.


Name: Wolfson, A. L.
Name (Yiddish): װאָלפֿסאָן, אַ. ל.
Born: 1867
Died: 1946

Songs written or composed


Title: Vilna -- װילנאַ
Author: Wolfson, A. L. -- װאָלפֿסאָן, אַ. ל.
Composer: Olshanetsky, Alexander -- אָלשאַנעצקי, אַלעקסאַנדער
Genre: Place
Subject: Vilna/Memory/Yearning/City/Inspiration
Origin: Alb K-096(a)/Alb V-001(a)/Alb F-032(a)/A-054(a)
Transliteration: Alb K-096(a)/A-054(a)/Alb B-122(a)
Translation: Alb K-096(a)/Alb K-029(a)/A-054(a)/Alb B-122(a)

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Recordings:


On album: K-029(a) (Klezmer Conservatory Band Yiddishe Renaissance`)
Track ID: 16604
Artist: Bressler, Judy
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh...
First line:װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: "tmimes" ""תּמימות naivete ??

On album: V-001(a) (Songs of the Vilna Ghetto -- דאָס געזאַנג פֿון װילנער געטאָ )
Track ID: 16605
Artist: Alberstein, Chava -- אַלבערשטײַן, חוה
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh ...
First line:װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: "tmimes" ""תּמימות naivete ??

On album: V-003(a) (Khor Vilna / Dirigent: Borukh Zhislin -- כאָר װילנע דיריגענט: ברןך זשיסלין )
Track ID: 16606
Artist: Vilna Khor -- װילנאַ כאָר
Artist: Zhislin, Borukh, conductor -- זשיסלין, ברוך, דיריגענט
Artist: Burgin, Nekhemia, piano -- בורגין, נחמיה, קלאַװיר
Artist: Vilna Khor -- װילנאַ כאָר
Artist: Burgin, Yekhiel -- בורגין, יחיאל
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh ...
First line:װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט
Track comment: "tmimes" ""תּמימות naivete ??

On album: T-022(a) (Nizza Thobi Mir Lebn Ejbig)
Track ID: 16607
Artist: Thobi, Nizza
Artist: Herchenhahn H. Quartet
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh...
First line:װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט
Track comment: "tmimes" ""תּמימות naivete ??

On album: B-055(a) (Bread & Candy Script by Irena Klepfisz)
Track ID: 16608
Artist: Ensemble -- אַנסאַמבל
Artist: London, Frank
Artist: Reissa, Eleanor
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh...
First line:װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: "tmimes" ""תּמימות naivete ?? From Bread & Candy

On album: R-042(a) (Eleanor Reissa Going Home Gems of Yiddish Song)
Track ID: 16609
Artist: Reissa, Eleanor
Artist: London, Frank
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh...
First line:װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט
Track comment: See Pearl in May 10, 1991 Forward

On album: F-032(a) (Songs of the Ghettos & Camps Compiled by Gila Flam)
Track ID: 16610
Artist: Segal, Betty
Artist: Dayches, Kiva, accordion acc
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh...
First line:װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: See Forwards May 10, 1991 in "Pearl" and notes with album

On album: K-064(a) (Jiddischkeit a concert in the Jewish Spirit Bente Kahn)
Track ID: 18699
Artist: Kahan, Bente
Artist: Gjertrud's Gipsy Orchestra
Artist: Okland, Gjertrud
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh...
First line:װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט
Track comment: "tmimes" ""תּמימות naivete ??

On album: G-048(b) (die "gojim" S'firt Keyn Veg Tsurik Vilna 1941-43)
Track ID: 20399
Artist: Di Gojim (Austria) די גױעם (עסטרײַך)
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh...
First line:װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: "tmimes" ""תּמימות naivete ??

On album: O-009(a) (Moni Ovadia Theatre Orchestra Oylem Goylem)
Track ID: 21242
Artist: Ovida, Moni
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh...
First line:װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט

On album: A-035(a) (Lomp Nokh Nit Farloshn Jiddische Lieder Gruppe Aufwind -- לאָמפּ נאָך נישט פֿאַרלאָשן )
Track ID: 21663
Artist: Aufwind
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh...
First line (Yiddish):װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: "tmimes" ""תּמימות naivete ??
Language: Yiddish

On album: K-068(a) (Klezamir Yiddish-Klezmer-Israeli Featuring Fraidy Katz -- קלעזאַמיר )
Track ID: 22615
Artist: Klezamir
Artist: Fraidy Katz
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh...
First line:װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: See Pearl in May 10, 1991 Forward

On album: C-035(a) (Dreaming In Yiddish Adrienne Cooper, vocals)
Track ID: 23994
Artist: Cooper, Adrienne -- קאָפּער, חנה־פֿריידע
Artist: Rosenzweig, Joyce
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh ...
First line:װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: Credited erroneously to Shmerke Kacaerginski

On album: P-028(a) (Cantor David Propis sings Memories of Home)
Track ID: 25162
Artist: Propis, Khazn David
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh ...
First line:װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

On album: E-025(a) (Europaisches Jiddish-Festival Leverkusen 1993)
Track ID: 26901
Artist: Kropoves, Dr. Maria
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh ...
First line:װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט

On album: B-086(a) (In Love And In Struggle/Musical Legacy of..Jewish Labor Bund -- אין ליבשאַפֿט און אין קאַמף\ די מוזיקאַלישע ירושה פֿונעם...בונד )
Track ID: 27545
Artist: Cooper, Adrienne -- קאָפּער, חנה־פֿריידע
Artist: New Yiddish Chorale
First line: Vilne, vilne, undzer heymshtot, undzer benkshaft un bager...
First line:װילנע, װילמע, אונדזער הײמשטאָט, אונדזער בענקשאַפֿט און באַגער...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: See Forwards May 10, 1991 in "Perl"
Language: Yiddish/English
Style: Concert

On album: K-096(a) (Fraidy Katz Sings Yiddish/ The Eternal Question/ Di Alte Kashe -- פֿריידע כּ'ץ די אַלטע קשיא)
Track ID: 33417
Artist: Shea, Tom
Artist: Fraidy Katz
Artist: The Lonesome Brothers
Artist: Armenti, Jim
Artist: Mason, Ray
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh fartrakht, vu es murmlen…
First line (Yiddish):װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט, וווּ עס...
Language: Yiddish
Style: Concert
Length: 4:11

On album: A-054(a) (Robert Paul Abelson, Baritone / Joyce Rosenzweig, Piano / A Leyter Tus Himl/ A Ladder to Heaven/ The Art of Jewish Song -- אַ לייטער צום הימל)
Track ID: 34306
Artist: Abelson, Khazn Robert Paul
Artist: Rosenzweig, Joyce
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh fartrakht, vu es murmlen…
First line (Yiddish):װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט, וווּ עס...
Language: Yiddish
Style: Concert/Art Song
Length: 4:26

On album: A-035(f) (Aufwind / Live)
Track ID: 31986
Artist: Aufwind
Artist: Koch, Claudia
Artist: Reich, Hardy
Artist: Rohde, Andreas
Artist: Hermerschmidt, Jan
Artist: Paffrath, Thomas
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh …
First line (Yiddish):װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנאַ ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט
Language: Yiddish
Style: Concert
Length: 4:25

On album: B-122(a) (Banda Klezmer Brasil /Brazil Klezmer Band / Mishmash a Brasilleira)
Track ID: 37054
Artist: Klezmer Brazil Band
Artist: Travossos, Alexandre Fracalanza
Artist: Graton, David
Artist: Sznajder, Debby
Artist: Maluf, Julio Giudice
Artist: Barletta, Luciana
Artist: Dias, Neimar
Artist: Marini, Ricardo
Artist: Travossos, Tania Frankiel
Artist: Carra, Camilo
Artist: Moreira, Joao Paulo
Artist: de Melo, Luciano Jose
First line: Vilna, shtot fun geyst and tmimes, vilna yidishlekh fartrakht, vu es murmlen…
First line (Yiddish):װילנאַ, שטאָט פֿון גײַסט און תּמימות, װילנע ייִדישלעך פֿאַרטראַכט, וווּ עס...
Language: Yiddish
Style: Concert
Length: 4:14

Title: Itsikl Klezmer (Secunda) -- איציקל קלעזמער
Author: Wolfson, A. L. -- װאָלפֿסאָן, אַ. ל.
Composer: Secunda, Sholom -- סעקונדאַ, שלום
Genre: Theater/Occupation
Subject: Klezmer/Fiddle/Virtuoso/Joy/Adulation
Additional song notes: From the musical "Oy Di Meydlekh"

Recordings:


On album: K-116(a)1 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 1)
Track ID: 35475
Artist: Koller, Yitzchak -- קאָלער, יצחק
Artist: Tal, Gabriella
First line: Ven yosele tsushpilt zikh vert freylekher in shtot, oy nemt er nor di fidl...
First line (Yiddish):ווען יאָסעלע צוששפּילט זיך, וועט פֿרייליכער אין שטאָט, אוי, נעמט ער נאָר די...
Language: Yiddish
Style: Folk
Length: 4:32

On album: K-116(a)1 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 1)
Track ID: 35476
Language: English
Style: Introduction/Explanation/Spoken Word
Length: 0:24

Title: Vilna (Video) -- װילנאַ
Author: Wolfson, A. L. -- װאָלפֿסאָן, אַ. ל.
Genre: Place
Subject: Vilna/Memory/Yearning
Origin: Alb K-096(a)/Alb V-001(a)/Alb F-032(a)
Transliteration: Alb K-096(a)
Translation: Alb K-096(a)/Alb K-029(a)

Contact: yidsong@pobox.upenn.edu