Look up artist Rekhtzayt, Seymour
Name: Rekhtzayt, Seymour
Related information in folder 430:- Comments: 1. Article in New York Times, titled, " A Singer's Sentimental Journey," by Joyce Wadler, published October 16, 2002, titled "Seymour Rexite, 91, Star of Yiddish Stage Dies".
Tracks with this artist
Title: Nayer Sher
On album: 037g (Rekhtzayt, Seymour/ Nayer Sher/ Mayn Shtetele Belz)
Track ID: 29863
Artist: Rekhtzayt, Seymour
Title: Mayn Shtetele Belz -- מײַן שטעטעלע בעלז
Also known as: Belz
Author: Jacobs, Jacob -- זשאַקאָבס, זשאַקאָב
Composer: Olshanetsky, Alexander -- אָלשאַנעצקי, אַלעקסאַנדער
Genre: Theatre/Nostalgia/Memory
Subject: Place/Belz/Childhood
Origin: GYF 20/ML PYS 260/Alb G-035(b)/Vinkov 5 309
Transliteration: Alb B-007(c)/GYF 23/Alb L-048(a)/Alb B-007(c)/Alb G-013(c)/ML PYS 260
Translation: Alb H-006(a)/Alb L-023(b)/GYF 23/Alb J-024(a)1/Alb K-029(g)/Vinkov 5 311
Music: GYF 20/Estella 26/ML PYS 260/Vinkov 5 308
Additional song notes: From the play "Ghetto Song" or "Song of the Ghetto
On album: 037g (Rekhtzayt, Seymour/ Nayer Sher/ Mayn Shtetele Belz)
Track ID: 29864
Artist: Rekhtzayt, Seymour
Title: Bist Mir Mazldik Rukhele -- ביסט מיר מזלדיק רחלעלע
Author: Lillian, Isadore -- ליליאַן, איסאַדאָר
Composer: Olshanetsky, Alexander -- אָלשאַנעצקי, אַלעקסאַנדער
Genre: Theater
On album: 043n (Rekhtzayt, Seymour/ Bist Mir Mazldik Rokhele/ Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen)
Track ID: 30014
Artist: Rekhtzayt, Seymour
Language: Yiddish
Title: Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen -- ראָזשינקעס מיט מאַנדלען
Also known as: Shlof Mayn Kind Shlof
Author: Goldfaden, Avrom -- גאָלדפֿאַדען, אַבֿרהם
Composer: Goldfaden, Avrom -- גאָלדפֿאַדען, אַבֿרהם
Genre: Folk/Theatre/Lullaby/Viglid
Subject: Mother/Son/Metaphor/Occupation/Future/Raisens/Almonds
Song Comment: From the operetta "Shulamis"
Origin: ML MTAG 04/Alb K-014(a)/GYF 7/Alb L-023(a)/Alb C-015(a)/Vinkov 4 188/Sh Sh 37
Transliteration: ML MTAG 04/GYF 06/Alb D-004(k)/Alb C-015(a)/Alb R-001(a)/Alb L-023(a)
Translation: Alb L-023(a)/Bikel 99/GYF 7/Alb K-014(a)/Alb O-001(a)/Alb R-001(a)Sh Sh 36
Music: ML MTAG 05/Bikel 99/Vinkov 4 188/Metro Scher 20
Additional song notes: See Gottlieb, p. 43-44 for relationship to Berlin's "Blue Skies"
See Ephemera 80 for singable English adapation by Edith Finell.
Related information in folder 189:- Comments: 1Essayin the magazine "Judiasm" by Marvin Kaplan titled "Raisins and Almonds" Goldfaden's Glory". Analayzes song text and also provides biographical information.
2. Transliteration and singable Yiddish translation by Edith Finell.
3. Article in Yiddish Forverts of June 17-23, 2011 by Yitzkhak Ludan (Israel) titled "Di Vizie Fun "Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen'" (The Vision of Raisens and Almonds". An analysis of the present political situation in the Middle East with a pessimistic conclusion that the implied security and prosperity in the song Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen will not be realized for some time to come.
On album: 043n (Rekhtzayt, Seymour/ Bist Mir Mazldik Rokhele/ Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen)
Track ID: 30015
Artist: Rekhtzayt, Seymour
First line: In dem beys-hamikdosh, In a vinkl kheyder, zitst di almone, bas tsion aleyn,
First line:אין דעם בית־המקדש, אין אַ װינקל־חדר, זיצט די אַלמנה בת־ציון…
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