Look up artist Rosenthal, Margie & Ilene Safyan
Name: Rosenthal, Margie & Ilene Safyan
Tracks with this artist
Title: Tum Balalayke -- טום באַלאַלײַקע
Also known as: Twistin' The Freylekhs (Instr)
Also known as: Play Balalaike
Genre: Folk/Love/Courtship/Riddle
Subject: Love/Riddle
Origin: ML MTAG 30/GYF 76/Alb G-026(a)/Alb O-001(b)/Alb B-007(b)/Alb C-015(a)
Transliteration: ML MTAG 30/Alb S-083(a)/Alb S-085(a)/Alb S-056(a)/Alb N-002(a)/
Translation: Alb N-002(a)/Silverman SJP 5/Alb Y-018(b)/GYF 79/Alb K-29(g)/Schwartz 2
Music: ML MTAG 31/GYF 77/Schwartz 2
Additional song notes: See Ephemera 80 for singable English adapation by Edith Finell.
Related information in folder 730:- Comments: 1. Transliteration and singable Yiddish translation by Edith Finell.
Related information in folder 1182:- Comments: 1. Article in Yiddish Forverts of April 6-12, 2012
by Moshe Lemster (Israel) titled "Vegn '"Tum-Balalayke" in A Yidishn-Nit Yidisn Teater"' (About "Tum-Balalayke" in a Yiddish- - Non Yiddish Theater. Article deals with the popularity of the song.
On album: Y-018(b) (Where Dreams Are Born Jewish Lullabies)
Track ID: 19107
Artist: Rosenthal, Margie & Ilene Safyan
First line: Tell me, oh pretty one, tell if you know, what needs no...
First line:שטײט אַ בחור און ער טראַכט, טראַכט און טראַכט אַ גאַנצע נאַכט,
Language: Yiddish/English
Title: Talit (Heb) -- טלית (עבֿרית)
On album: Y-018(b) (Where Dreams Are Born Jewish Lullabies)
Track ID: 19108
Artist: Don, P.
Artist: Rosenthal, Margie & Ilene Safyan
First line: Tinatseyl nafshi, verukhi venishmati utfilati min...
Track comment: With the talit around me, I am protected as an eagle...
Language: Hebrew
Title: Over The Rainbow (Eng)
On album: Y-018(b) (Where Dreams Are Born Jewish Lullabies)
Track ID: 19109
Artist: Arlen, Harold
Artist: Harburg, E.
Artist: Rosenthal, Margie & Ilene Safyan
First line: Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high, there's a land...
Track comment: From the "Wizard of Oz"
Title: Durme Durme Mi Angelica Hijico
On album: Y-018(b) (Where Dreams Are Born Jewish Lullabies)
Track ID: 19110
Artist: Rosenthal, Margie & Ilene Safyan
First line: Durme durme mi angelico chico de tu nacion criature de zion,
Track comment: Sleep my little angel, baby of Zion, may you never know...
Language: Ladino
Title: Wings Of Love (Eng, Heb)
On album: Y-018(b) (Where Dreams Are Born Jewish Lullabies)
Track ID: 19111
Artist: Solomon, R.
Artist: Rosenthal, Margie & Ilene Safyan
First line: When I take you in my arms, my little Jewish boy,
Track comment: Shmor nah malakhel halallah, sheyifros aleha kanfey...
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: Y-018(b) (Where Dreams Are Born Jewish Lullabies)
Track ID: 19112
Artist: Wilder, Alec
Artist: Rosenthal, Margie & Ilene Safyan
First line: To my little one's cradle in the night, comes a new goat...
First line:אין דעם בית־המקדש, אין אַ װינקל־חדר, זיצט די אַלמנה בת־ציון….
Track comment: From the operetta "Shulamis"
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Nigunim (Heb, Zehavi) -- ניגונים (עבֿרית, זהבי)
On album: Y-018(b) (Where Dreams Are Born Jewish Lullabies)
Track ID: 19113
Artist: Fania -- פניה
Artist: Zehavi, Dovid -- זהבי, דוד
Artist: Rosenthal, Margie & Ilene Safyan
First line: Shetaltem nigunim bi, imi veavi, nigunim, mizmorim...
First line:שתלתם נגוּנים בּי, אמי ואבי. נגוּנים, מזמוֹרים שׁכוּחים.
Track comment: Album notes credit lyrics to "F. Bergstein"
Title: Scarlet Ribbons (Eng)
On album: Y-018(b) (Where Dreams Are Born Jewish Lullabies)
Track ID: 19114
Artist: Segal, J.
Artist: Danzig, E.
Artist: Rosenthal, Margie & Ilene Safyan
First line: I peeked in to say good, when I heard my child in prayer.
Language: English
Title: Lailah Lailah -- לילה לילה
Also known as: Layla Layla
Also known as: Layle Layle
Author: Alterman, Natan -- אלתּרמן, נתן
Author: Alterman, Natan -- אלתּרמן, נתן
Composer: Zeira, Mordecai -- זעירא, מרדכי
Genre: Literary Origin/Israeli/Folk/Lullaby
Subject: Night/Wind/Sleep/Knight/Animal/Sword/Candle/Name
Origin: Netzer 63
Transliteration: Netzer 63/Bikel 105/YRD YPS 287/Alb Y-018(b)Alb Y-018(d)
Translation: Alb K-047(a)/Bikel 105/Y-018(d)
Music: Netzer 63/YRD YPS 287
On album: Y-018(b) (Where Dreams Are Born Jewish Lullabies)
Track ID: 19115
Artist: Rosenthal, Margie & Ilene Safyan
First line: Layla, layla, haruakh noshevet, layla, layla, homa...
First line (Hebrew):לילה, לילה, הרוּח......, לילה, לילה, הוֹמה הצמרת,
Language: Hebrew
Title: Durme Durme Mi Alma Donzella
On album: Y-018(b) (Where Dreams Are Born Jewish Lullabies)
Track ID: 19116
Artist: Rosenthal, Margie & Ilene Safyan
First line: Durme durme mi alma donzella, durme durme sin ansia y dolor.
Track comment: Sleep my princess without anxiety or pain, listen to my...
Language: Ladino
Title: Never Never Land (Eng)
On album: Y-018(b) (Where Dreams Are Born Jewish Lullabies)
Track ID: 19117
Artist: Styne, Jule
Artist: Comden, Betty
Artist: Rosenthal, Margie & Ilene Safyan
Artist: Green, Adolph
First line: I know a place where dreams are born and time is never...
Contact: yidsong@pobox.upenn.edu