Freedman Catalogue lookup: keyword Spoken Word

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Aleichem, Sholem : The Fiddle / Howard Da Silva

Album ID:: 066a
Format:: 78 rpm" 12"
Publisher:: Decca DU 90020
Language:: English
Genre:: Spoken Word/ Literary Origin
Where produced:: USA
Number of tracks:: 2
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh / The Little People — שלום עליכם די קלײנע מענטשעלעך

Album ID:: A-003(a)
Publisher:: CBS 62702/3 Two Record Album
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Humor
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 9
Additional notes:: See also Alb A-003(h) - Other readings by "Di Dray Shuliks" and Video V0062

Sholom Aleichem If I Were Rothschild Jewish Folk Songs

Album ID:: A-003(c)
Publisher:: Monitor MF 332
Date of issuance:: 1960
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Literary Origin/Folk/Spoken Word/
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 10

Stories by Sholom Aleichem in Honor of Jewish Holidays Told by I. (Tsuny Rymer) — מיט שלום עליכמען אויף יום־טובֿ

Album ID:: A-003(e)
Publisher:: I. Rymer
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: USA
Number of tracks:: 4

Menashe Skulnik / Stories of Sholom Aleichem

Album ID:: A-003(g)
Format:: 12" Album 33 1/3
Publisher:: Caedmon TC 1173
Language:: English
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin/Translations
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 5

Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh — שלום עליכם די קלײנע מענטשעלעך

Album ID:

A-003(h)

Publisher:

CBS 84722

Date of issuance:

1980

Language:

Yiddish

Genre:

Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Humor

Where produced:

Israel

Number of tracks:

Additional notes:

See also Alb A-003(a) - Other readings by "Di Dray Shuliks" and Video V0062

Related information in folder 19:

Document type:: Various English Translations
Author:: Moshe Spiegel, Translator
Comments:: Various translations, songs, stories, poems.

Related information in folder 581:

Document type:: Article
Author:: Pesie Portney
Publisher:: Yiddish Forward
Date:: 4/21/2006
Comments:: l. Article titled, "Di Shtot Fun Kleyne Mentshelekh- Sholom Aleichem in Kan Teater in Yerushalayim". Review of new current production.

Motl Peysi Dem Khazns by Sholem Aleichem Read by Ruth Rubin — דער נײַער הויזפֿרײַנט

Album ID:: A-003(i)
Format:: Cassette X23 and X24
Publisher:: National Yiddish Book Center
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Amherst, MA
Number of tracks:: 1

Holiday Tales by Sholem Aleichem/Read by Rita Karin & David Rogow — לכּבֿוד יום-טובֿ

Album ID:: A-003(j)
Format:: Cassette X22
Publisher:: National Yiddish Book Center
Date of issuance:: 1987
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Humor
Where produced:: Greenwich Village, NY
Number of tracks:: 6
Additional notes:: Cassette. Read by Rita Karin and David Rogow.

Humorous Stories by Sholom Aleichem read by Rita Karin & David Rogow — לאַכן איז געזונט

Album ID:: A-003(k)
Format:: Cassette X21
Publisher:: National Yiddish Book Center
Date of issuance:: 1988
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Humor
Where produced:: Greenwich Village, NY
Number of tracks:: 6

Elihu Tenenholtz / Holiday Stories by Sholom Aleichem — אליהו טענענהאָלץ \ יום־טוב מעשיות פֿון שלום עליכם

Album ID:: A-003(l)
Publisher:: Jewish Literature Rec YLR 1001
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Hollywood, CA
Number of tracks:: 6

Sholom Aleichem Readings A Recital by Jack Newman — לכּבֿוד יום-טובֿ

Album ID:: A-003(p)
Format:: 12" Alb 33 1/3/Audio CD
Publisher:: Capitol (Private Issue)
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: USA
Number of tracks:: 6

Howard Da Silva: An Evening With Sholom Aleichem

Album ID:: A-003(r)
Publisher:: Monitor Records MR 106
Language:: English
Provenance:: Philadelphia Record Exchange
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Translation
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 6

Mischa Alexandrovitsh Radio Interview May 10, 1995

Album ID:: A-005(d)
Publisher:: Cassette WUNR Brookline
Date of issuance:: 2008
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Mark Davis of the Yiddish Voice, Boston, MA
Genre:: Radio/Interview/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Boston, MA
Number of tracks:: 37
Additional notes:: The CD's in the book includes the entire contents of the cassette in which the interview is heard.

Yehuda Amichai Poetry/ Music Mark Kopytman

Album ID:: A-047(a)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Jerusalem Municipality Culture Dept, et al
Playing time:: 48:40
Language:: Hebrew
Provenance:: Gift of the Consulate General of Israel in Philadelphia
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin/Musical Settings
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 12
Additional notes:: Produced by The Jerusalem Municipality Culture Department/ The Israel Broadcasting Authority "Kol Musica"/ Ein Kerem Music Center

Sholem Asch/ Statement/Lecture At Columbia University, N.Y. October, 1952

Album ID:: A-058(b)
Format:: 33 1/2 rpm 12" (2 records)Audio CD
Publisher:: Folkways Records FTS 35503
Date of issuance:: 1977
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Marty & Bess Katz/ CD purchased from Smithsonian Folkways Oct 2012
Genre:: Lectures/Spoken Word/Credo
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 4
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Max Asnas/ Corned-Beef Confucius/ Recorded Live at the Stage Delicatessen in New York

Album ID:: A-072(a)
Publisher:: Kimberly
Date of issuance:: 2006
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Carol Clarke of Alumni Develoment upon her retirement, September 2010
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Los Angeles, CA
Comment:: Two tracks, pt 1 and pt 2
Number of tracks:: 2
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: ro be catalogued

Theodore Bikel Song Of Songs and other Bible Prophecies

Album ID:: B-007(i)
Format:: 33 rpm 12" alb X8
Publisher:: Legacy LEG 118
Language:: English
Genre:: Spoken Word/Biblical
Where produced:: Los Angeles, CA
Number of tracks:: 9

Theodore Bikel / While I'm Here / CD 1

Album ID:: B-007(v)1
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Red House Records
Date of issuance:: 2016
Playing time:: 61:00
Language:: English
Provenance:: Purchase Sept 2016, Amazon.com
Genre:: Spoken Word
Where produced:: Tacoma Park, Maryland
Number of tracks:: 16
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg

Album ID:: B-036(c)
Format:: Audio CD/r
Publisher:: CD Privately Issued
Date of issuance:: 2001
Playing time:: 58:20
Language:: Yiddish/English
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman, Purchase from Abe Brumberg, March 2001
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Bethesda, MD
Number of tracks:: 37
Additional notes:: Liner notes by Abe Brumberg

Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD1 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 1

Album ID:: B-047(d)1
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Israel Music ICD 5086
Date of issuance:: 2000
Playing time:: 68:50
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman, Purchase Dec 2005, Kehoksen, NY, KlezKamp 05
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Monologue
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 8
Additional notes:: Liner Notes by Harold Clurman/Part of a 2 CD Set

Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD 2 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 2

Album ID:: B-047(d)2
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Israel Music ICD 5086
Date of issuance:: 2000
Playing time:: 70:41
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman, Purchase Dec 2005, Kehoksen, NY, KlezKamp 05
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Monologue
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 15
Additional notes:: Liner Notes by Harold Clurman/Part of a 2 CD Set

David "Dudl" Berstein / Funeral Service March 16, 2003

Album ID:: B-089(b)
Publisher:: Jeff Bernstein
Date of issuance:: 2003
Playing time:: 66:33
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Jeff Bernstein, March 2005
Genre:: Spoken Word
Number of tracks:: 15

2000 and Thirteen/ Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks

Album ID:: B-103(a)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: Warner Brothers Records BS 2741
Date of issuance:: 1973
Language:: English
Genre:: Humorous/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York, NY

Masters of Yiddish Prose/The Chasidic World in Yiddish Literature/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — חסידות אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור

Album ID:: B-112(a)
Publisher:: Forward Association CD#1
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: CD Copy courtesy of Lazer Trachenberg, 2009
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 6

Masters of Yiddish Prose/Tsvi Eisenman: The Spectacle and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1

Album ID:: B-112(b)
Publisher:: Forward Association CD#2
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: CD Copy courtesy of Lazer Trachenberg, 2009
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 9

Masters of Yiddish Prose/Yiddish Women's Prose/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — פֿרויען־פּראָזע אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור

Album ID:: B-112(c)
Publisher:: Forward Association CD#3
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: CD Copy courtesy of Lazer Trachenberg, 2009
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 8

Masters of Yiddish Prose/Yosl Birstein: In The Alleys of Jerusalem/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD4 — מײַסטערס פֿון ייִדעשער פּראָזע\יאַסל בערנשטיין: אין די געסלעך פֿון ירושלים...

Album ID:: B-112(d)
Publisher:: Forward Association CD#4
Playing time:: 26:00
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: CD Copy courtesy of Lazer Trachenberg, 2009
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 6

Masters of Yiddish Prose/Efraim Kaganowski: Moyshele Paganini and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — אפֿרים קאַגאַניני: ,,משהלע פּאַגאַניני'' און אַנגערע דערציינגען

Album ID:: B-112(e)
Publisher:: Forward Association CD#5
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: CD Copy courtesy of Lazer Trachenberg, 2009
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 7

Rivke Bosman Ben Chaim Leynt Ire Lider — רבקה באָסמאַן בן חיים ליינט אירע לידער

Album ID:: B-127(a)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Rivke Basman Ben Chaim
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Courtesy of Lazer Trachtenberg, May 2010
Genre:: Literary Origin/Poetry/Spoken Word
Number of tracks:: 10
Additional notes:: The titles refer to groups of related poems and the individual tracks (some seventy in number) will not be entered.

Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1

Album ID:: B-138(a)
Publisher:: Wendy Dreskin
Language:: Yiddish/English
Provenance:: Cassette Courtesy of Wendy Dreskin, Daughter of Martin Birenbaum, July 2011
Genre:: Field Recording/Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: USA
Number of tracks:: 14
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 2

Album ID:: B-138(b)
Publisher:: Wendy Dreskin
Language:: Yiddish/English
Provenance:: Cassette Courtesy of Wendy Dreskin, Daughter of Martin Birenbaum, July 2011
Genre:: Field Recording/Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: USA
Number of tracks:: 11
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: Hebrew, a difficult language — יוסי בנאי ורבקה מיכאלי האוסף המצחיק: עברית קשה שפה

Album ID:: B-143(a)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Music Direct מדיה דירקט MD900
Language:: Hebrew
Provenance:: Israeli Counsulate, Philadephia, April 2003
Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 9

Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!

Album ID:: B-143(b)
Format:: audio CD
Publisher:: Music Direct מדיה דירקט MD900
Language:: Hebrew
Provenance:: Israeli Counsulate, Philadephia, April 2003
Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 9

Gadi Yagil, Shaike Ofir Zohar Zur, Funny Collection: go, go! — גדי יגיל, שייקה אופיר ואפירי זהר האוסף המצחיק: תצא תצא

Album ID:: B-143(c)
Format:: Audio CD 4 set
Publisher:: Music Direct מדיה דירקט MD900
Language:: Hebrew
Provenance:: Israeli Counsulate, Philadephia, April 2003
Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 12
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the First Line level.

Uri Wazir and Shaike Ophir, Funny Collection: When I shoot, I lie down — אורי זיר ושייקה אופיר, האוסף המצחיק: כשיורים אני נשכבת

Album ID:: B-143(d)
Format:: Audio CD 4 set
Publisher:: Music Direct מדיה דירקט MD900
Language:: Hebrew
Provenance:: Israeli Counsulate, Philadephia, April 2003
Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 11
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the First Line level.

Stories by Isaac Babel read by Joseph Wiseman

Album ID:: B-158(a)
Publisher:: Spoken Arts SA 1093
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Dan & Felice Perlmutter, September 2013
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Translation
Where produced:: New Rochelle, NY
Number of tracks:: 6
Copyright information:: 55

Mark Binder/ The Brothers Schlemiel: from birth to bar mitzvah

Album ID:: B-196(a)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Mark Binder
Date of issuance:: 2001
Language:: English
Provenance:: Purchase, Jewish Musuem, NY December 2013
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Providence, RI
Number of tracks:: 6
Additional notes:: This CD is an audio book.

A Message From Shlomo Bardin

Album ID:: B-203(a)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: The Brandeis Institute??
Date of issuance:: May 10, 1969
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Bart Banks, March 2015
Genre:: Spoken Word
Where produced:: Brandeis, California
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Gertrude Berg: How To Be A Jewish Mother

Album ID:: B-205(a)
Publisher:: Amy Records AMY LP 8007
Date of issuance:: 1965
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Bart Banks, November 2015
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Chicago, IL
Number of tracks:: 8
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Charley Bernhaut on Nauchum Segal Show: Disc 1 of 2

Album ID:: B-212(a)
Format:: Audio CD
Date of issuance:: Sept 21, 1995
Playing time:: 63:13
Language:: English/Hebrew
Genre:: Cantorial/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Charley Bernhaut on Nauchum Segal Show: Disc 2 of 2

Album ID:: B-212(b)
Format:: Audio CD
Date of issuance:: Sept 21, 1995
Playing time:: 51:21
Language:: English/Hebrew
Genre:: Cantorial/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Emil Cohen Jewish Stories & Songs

Album ID:: C-012(a)
Format:: Casse
Publisher:: emco records # 1201
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Humorous/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Riverdale, NY
Number of tracks:: 10

Adrienne Cooper In Memoram/ Podcast

Album ID:: C-035(f)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: John Kalish
Date of issuance:: 2012
Language:: English
Provenance:: Downloaded from the internet, January 2012
Genre:: Spoken Word/Memorial
Where produced:: USA
Number of tracks:: 1

Myron Cohen at the Royal Box Americana of New York/ Everybody Gotta Be Someplace

Album ID:: C-036(c)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: RCA Victor LPM 3534
Date of issuance:: 1966
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman
Genre:: Spoken Word/Jokes/Dialect/Humorous
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 33
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Caroline Chanin Radio Interview

Album ID:: C-044(b)
Publisher:: Downloaded From Internet
Date of issuance:: 2005
Playing time:: 13:12
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: 2005
Genre:: Spoken Word
Where produced:: Australia
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: Includes fragments of "Umruh Mayne" and "Kholemen Khaloymes".

The Last Laugh Of Shimon Dzigan — דאָס לעצטי געלעכטער פֿון שמיון דזשיגאַן

Album ID:: D-005(d)
Publisher:: Galton L-6006 גלטון
Playing time:: 41:00
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Monologues/Spoken Word/Humor
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 5

Lustig Un Lebedik Freylekh (Lebedov) Dzigan's Lakh Oytser — לוסטיג און לעבעדיק דזשיגאַנס לאַך אױצר

Album ID:: D-005(e)
Publisher:: Galton L-5764 גלטון
Playing time:: 44:00
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Cassette gift of Lazer Trachtenberg, October 2010
Genre:: Monologues/Spoken Word/Humor
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 6

Shimon Dzigan M'lakht A Lebn — שמיון דזשיגאַן מ'לאַכט אַ לעבן

Album ID:: D-005(f)
Publisher:: Galton L-5763 גלטון
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Cassette gift of Lazar Trachtenberg, October 2010
Genre:: Monologues/Spoken Word/Humor
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 5

Dzigan et Szumacher Sketchs Et Monologues

Album ID:: D-005(i)
Publisher:: OSI Disques OS 46
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Cassette gift of Lazar Trachtenberg, January 2011
Genre:: Monologues/Spoken Word/Humor
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 4

Hot A Yid A Lendele Sh. Dzigan — האָט אַ ליד אַ לענדעלע ש. דזשעגאַן

Album ID:: D-005(m)
Publisher:: Galton L 5771 גלטון
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Theater/Humor/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Israel

S. Dzigan — ש. דזשיגאַן

Album ID:: D-005(r)
Format:: Cassette x 571
Publisher:: Galton G 5782 גלטון
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Theater/Humor/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 4
Additional notes:: Gift of Lazer Trachtenberg, March 2010

Hot A Yid A Lendele 2 Sh. Dzigan — האָט אַ ליד אַ לענגעלע ש. דזשעגאַן

Album ID:: D-005(z)1
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 10"
Publisher:: P. R. Makolit
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Monologues/Sketches/Spoken Word/Humor
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 7
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Shimon Dzigan/ Mayn Eynikl/ Di Sholem Rakete/ Nor Meshuge Tsu Vern — שמעון דזשיגאַן\ מײַן אייניקל \ די שלום ראַקעטע \ נאָר משוגע צו ווערן

Album ID:: D-005(z)10
Format:: Cassette
Publisher:: Galton
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Lazer Trachtenberg, March 2010
Genre:: Spoken Word/Theater/Monologues
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 3
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Shimon Dzigan/ Yom Hatsmo'ut / A Naye Klole/ Oy Der Kop/ A Levaye Fun A Klal Tuer — שמעון דזשיגאַן\ יום העצמאות\ אוי דער קאָפּ \ אַ נײַער קללה\ אַ לוויה פֿון אַ..

Album ID:: D-005(z)11
Format:: Cassette
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Lazer Trachtenberg, March 2010
Genre:: Spoken Word/Theater/Monologues
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 4
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

The Best of Shimon Dzigan and friends Live Vol 1/ The S. Dzigan Show — המיטב של דז'יגאן וחברים בהופעה חיה מספר 1

Album ID:: D-005(z)2
Format:: Audio CD/Cassette x643
Publisher:: Israel Music ICD 5061
Date of issuance:: 1999
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman, purchase Center for Jewish History, NY
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 12
Additional notes:: Cassette Gift of Lazer Trachtenberg, March 2010
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Yiddish Humor Vol 2 — ייִדישע הומור

Album ID:: D-005(z)3
Format:: Cassette X94
Publisher:: Israel Music IMC 1079
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Lazer Trachtenberg, March 2010
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 15
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

The Best of Shimon Dzigan and friends Live Vol 2/ The S. Dzigan Show — המיטב של דז'יגאן וחברים בהופעה חיה מספר 2

Album ID:: D-005(z)4-2
Publisher:: Israel Music IMC 1125
Date of issuance:: 1999
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman, purchase Center for Jewish History, NY
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 12
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

The Best of Dzigan & Shumacher / Yiddish Humor Vol 3 — המיטב של דש'גאן ושומכר

Album ID:: D-005(z)4-3
Publisher:: Israel Music IMC 1081
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Courtesy of Lazar Trachtenberg, March 2010
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word/Sketches
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 8
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

S. Dzigan / Yidn Kh'ken Nisht Shlofn/Pariz - Tel Aviv/ Fishl Der Matraz/Undzere In Amerika — ש. דזשיגאַן

Album ID:: D-005(z)5
Publisher:: Gal Ron Ltd L 5807
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Courtesy of Lazer Trachenberg, March, 2010
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word/Monologues
Where produced:: Tel Aviv, Israel
Number of tracks:: 4
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

S. Dzigan / Zayn Letstn Program — ש. דזשיגאַן\ זײַן לעצטן פּראָגראַם

Album ID:: D-005(z)6
Format:: Cassette
Publisher:: Galton 5764
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Courtesy of Lazer Trachtenberg, March, 2010
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word/Monologues
Where produced:: Tel Aviv, Israel
Number of tracks:: 5
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalofued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

S. Dzigan /Lakht Mit Mir Mit — שמעון דזשיגאַן\ לאַכט מיט מיר מיט

Album ID:: D-005(z)7
Publisher:: Galton 6701
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Lazer Trachtenberg, March 2010
Genre:: Spoken Word/Monologues/Theater
Where produced:: Tel Aviv, Israel
Number of tracks:: 4
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Shimon Dzigan On Stage Part 1/ The Best of Shimon Dzigan and Friends Live Vol 3 — שמעון דזשיגאַן על הבמה חלק א' מס 3

Album ID:: D-005(z)8
Format:: Cassette x641
Publisher:: Israel Music IMC 1126
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Lazer Trachtenberg, March 2010
Genre:: Spoken Word/Theater/Sketches
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 9
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Shimon Dzigan On Stage Part 2/The Best of Shimon Dzigan and Friends Live Vol 4 — שמעון דזשיגאַן על הבמה חלק ב' מס 4

Album ID:: D-005(z)9
Publisher:: Israel Music IMC 1127
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Lazer Trachtenberg, March 2010
Genre:: Spoken Word/Theater/Shetches
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 8
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Habimah National Theatre Presents The Dybbuk — התאטרון הלאומי "הבימה" מציג הדיבוק

Album ID:

D-009(a)

Format:

33 1/3 rpm 12" x614-5

Publisher:

CBS 70012/13 2 Album Set

Language:

Hebrew

Genre:

Drama/Spoken Word/Theater

Where produced:

Israel

Additional notes:

Albums 1 & 2 are on separate disc copies

Related information in folder 1059:

Comments:: 1. Article in NY Times, Aug. 23, 2010, by Daniel M. Gold, titled "The Ghosts of Unquiet Souls Doomed in a Wartime Ghetto". A theater review of "Dybbuk" currently being performed in New York. Play is an adaptation of the 1914 play, "The Dybbuk", written by S. Ansky, taking place in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Davidson Field Recording

Album ID:: D-035(a)
Format:: Audio CD
Date of issuance:: c. 1960
Playing time:: 22:06
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: DVD copy courtesy of Fagie and Danny Perlmustter September 2011
Genre:: Field Recording/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Philadelphia, PA
Number of tracks:: 3

Readings In Yiddish by Ya'akov Einstein — יעקב אײנשטײן לײנט שאַפֿונגען אין ייִדיש

Album ID:: E-004(a)
Format:: 33 rpm 12" alb/cassette x577
Publisher:: Israphon AP 343 ישׂראפון3069
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Readings/Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 7
Additional notes:: Cassette Gift of Lazer Trachtenberg, March 2010

Great Speeches of Eban: Introduced by Walter Cronkite

Album ID:: E-042(a)
Format:: Audio CD (4 CD Set, 2 CDs Missing)
Publisher:: Jewish Media Fund of Charles Revson Foundation
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Bart Banks, April 2015
Genre:: Spoken Word/Historical
Where produced:: USA
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Abba Eban:Israel's Finest Hour, Address Before The United Nations Security Council, June 6, 1967

Album ID:: E-042(b)
Publisher:: SA 986
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Bart Banks, March 2015
Genre:: Spoken Word/Historic
Where produced:: USA
Comment:: Unclear where CD came from.
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Israel Speaks: Selections from the speeches of Abba Eban Narrated by Eleanor Roosevelt

Album ID:: E-042(c)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: United Artists Records UAL 9002
Date of issuance:: 1959
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Bart Banks, March 2015
Genre:: Spoken Word/Historic
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level. / Narration written by Millard Lampell, produced by Samuel Elfert
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Boris Zimring/ Poetry

Album ID:: f-024(
Format:: Audio CD from reel to reel tape
Publisher:: Boris Zimering
Date of issuance:: 1970
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Boris Zimering taped by Robert Freedman in 1970
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Poetry
Where produced:: Phila., PA
Number of tracks:: 13
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

It's The Thought That Counts/ Bais Chana Tapes with Rabbi Manis Friedman

Album ID:: F-057(a)
Publisher:: Beis Chana Women's Institute
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman
Genre:: Spoken Word/Chassidic Philosphy/Lecture
Where produced:: St Paul, Minnesota
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Molly Freedman: Oral Histories

Album ID:: F-085(a)
Publisher:: Molly Freedman
Date of issuance:: 1978
Playing time:: 28:48
Language:: Russian/Yiddish
Provenance:: Field tape by Molly Freedman/Gift of Molly Freedman
Genre:: Spoken Word/Biographies
Where produced:: Philadelphia, PA
Number of tracks:: 4

Farago, Marcel/ String Quartet No. 1, Op.1

Album ID:: F-088(c)
Format:: CD
Publisher:: WRTt90.1
Date of issuance:: 3/06/2018
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Lloyd Smith, Oct 5, 2018
Genre:: Classical/Instrumental/Spoken Word
Where produced:: USA
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be cataloged

The Generations of Israel

Album ID:: G-011(a)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12" (2 alb)
Publisher:: CBS 32 B5 0012 (2 Album set)
Language:: English
Genre:: Spoken Word
Additional notes:: Excerpt - Abba Ebans Speech to UN is on the CD shelf under G-011(a)

Herts Grosbard Readings....Eliesar Steinberg....A. Lutsky — הערץ גראָסבאַרד װאָרט קאָנצערט אַליעזר שטײנבאָרג... אַ לוצקי

Album ID:: G-012(a)
Publisher:: EAV Lexington LE 7605
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Where produced:: New Jersey
Number of tracks:: 9

Herts Grosbard 2 Readings..M. L. Halpern/M. Kulbak/M. Nadir — הערץ גראָסבאַרד װאָרט קאָנצערט מ. ל. באַלפּערן\מ.קולבאַק\מ. נאַדיר

Album ID:: G-012(b)
Publisher:: EAV Lexington LE 7640
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Where produced:: New Jersey
Number of tracks:: 6

Herts Grosbard 3 Readings... Jacob Glatstein & Itzak Manger — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 4\װאָרט קאָנצערט איציק מאַנגער און יעקבֿ גלאַטשטײן

Album ID:: G-012(c)
Publisher:: EAV Lexington LE 7535
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Where produced:: New Jersey

Herts Grosbard 4 Readings from... Y. L. Peretz and S. Anski — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 4 װאָרט קאָנצערט י. ל. פּרץ און ש. אַנסקי

Album ID:: G-012(d)
Publisher:: EAV Lexington LE 7565
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Where produced:: New Jersey
Number of tracks:: 3

Herts Grosbard 5 Readings from H. Leivick and Aaron Zeitlin — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 5 װאָרט קאָנצערט ה. לײװיק און אהרן צײטלין

Album ID:: G-012(e)
Publisher:: EAV Lexington LE 7590
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Where produced:: New Jersey

Herts Grosbard 6 Readings from stories...by Sholem Aleichem — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 6 װאָרט קאָנצערט מעשׂיות...פֿון שלום אליכם

Album ID:: G-012(f)
Publisher:: EAV Lexington LE 7666
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Where produced:: New Jersey

Herts Grosbard 7 Peretz/ Moldodovski/ Steinbarg/Segal/Nadir — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 7 װאָרט קאָנצערט פּרץ\מאָלאָדאָװסקי\סיגאַל\שטײנבערג

Album ID:: G-012(g)
Publisher:: EAV Lexington LE 7769
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Where produced:: New Jersey

Herts Grosbard 8 Readings of.....tales written for children — הערץ גראָסבאַרט דערצײלט פֿאַר די ייִדישע קינדער...

Album ID:: G-012(h)
Publisher:: EAV Lexington LE 7770
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Where produced:: New Jersey

Herts Grosbard 9 Readings Velvl Zbarzer...by Itsik Manger — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 9 װאָרט קאָנצערט װעלװל זבאַרזשער..איציק מאַנגער

Album ID:: G-012(i)
Publisher:: EAV Lexington LE 7738
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Where produced:: New Jersey

Herts Grosbard 10 Der Trumpeyt Hot Zikh Farshemt — הערץ גראָסבאַרט װאָרט קאָנצערט דער טראָמפּײט האָט זיך פֿאַרשעמט

Album ID:: G-012(j)
Publisher:: EAV Lexington LE 7739
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Where produced:: New Jersey

Dos Goldene Land Narrated by Yosl Mlotek (Yiddish) — דאָס גאָלדענע לאַנד 80 יאָר ייִדיש לעבן אין אַמעריקע אין ייִדישן ליד

Album ID:: G-013(a)
Publisher:: Workmen's Circle WC 004
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Where produced:: New Jersey

David Ben-Gurion / Speech 1962

Album ID:: G-025(b)
Playing time:: 5:59
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Downloaded from the internet 2005
Genre:: Spoken Word/Polemic
Number of tracks:: 1

I Can Hear It Now/ David Ben Gurion/ Edited by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly

Album ID:: G-025(c)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: Columbia ML 5109
Language:: English
Genre:: Documentary/Spoken Word
Where produced:: USA
Comment:: to be catalogued
Number of tracks:: 2
Additional notes:: To Be Catalogued
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Yiddish Classics/ Shura Greenhoyz-Turkow recites Y.L. Peretz, Sholem Asch, Avrom Reisen, Itzik Manger, Efraim Kaganski — ייִדישע קלאַסישע ווערק\ שורע גרינהויז־טורקאָוו ליינט: י. ל. פֿרץ, שלום אַש, …

Album ID:: G-096(a)
Publisher:: Forward Association
Date of issuance:: 2008
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: CD copy courtesy of Lazar Trachenberg
Genre:: Yiddish/Literary Origin/ Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 5
Penn library link:: To be catalogued

Harry Golden/ Author of "Only in America" For 2c Plain" "Enjoy Enjoy"

Album ID:: G-101(a)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: Vanguard VRS 9102
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman
Genre:: Spoken Word
Where produced:: USA
Number of tracks:: 9
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Itzik Manger Poems and Ballads — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט איזיק מאַנגער ליד און באַלאַדע

Album ID:: G-104(a)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Yiddish Forward
Date of issuance:: 2009
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase Yiddish Forward, December 2009
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Number of tracks:: 9

Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Yiddish Classics/Peretz/Asch/Reisen/Manger/Kaganovski — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט יידישע קלאַסישע ווערק

Album ID:: G-104(b)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Yiddish Forward
Date of issuance:: 2008
Playing time:: 42:47
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase Yiddish Forward, December 2009
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Number of tracks:: 5
Additional notes:: Memory

Shlomo Mikhoels USSR Tevye Recording

Album ID:: H-006(h)
Publisher:: CCCP 618-57-9985
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Dramatic/Spoken Word/Theater
Where produced:: USSR
Number of tracks:: 2
Additional notes:: Album is in Box 038

The Hebrew Language / Commentary and Readings in Hebrew and English. Read by Prof. Theodor H. Gaster

Album ID:: H-046(a)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: Folkways Records & Service Corp FP-97-4
Date of issuance:: 1955
Language:: English/Hebrew
Genre:: Instructional/Educational/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 2
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Rally In Support of Israel/June 6, 1967/Harris Jewish Community Center/Greetings by Dignitaries

Album ID:: I-018(a)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: Radio Station WFEC
Date of issuance:: 1967
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Jerry Wasserman in memory of his father, Mark Wasserman, November 2001
Genre:: Spoken Word/Historic
Where produced:: Harrisburg, PA
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

The Living Story of Israel

Album ID:: I-019(b)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: Living Story Records Co 2098
Date of issuance:: 1970
Language:: English
Genre:: Spoken Word/Documentary/Zionist
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 2
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Israel is Born: The return to the Jewish Homeland, a Documentary Record

Album ID:: I-029(a)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: Caedmon TC 1014
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Bart Banks, March 2015
Genre:: Historic/Documentary/Spoken Word
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Zev Jabotinsky/ Interview January 1931 — זאב ז'בוטנסקי \ דרום אפריקה

Album ID:: J-050(a)
Publisher:: Jabotinsky Institute In Israel
Date of issuance:: Jan 1931
Language:: Hebrew
Provenance:: Courtesy of Lazar Trachtenberg July 2011
Genre:: Spoken Word/Historical
Where produced:: South Africa
Number of tracks:: 1

Hineni/ The Jewish Awakening Featuring Ester Jungreis

Album ID:: J-065(a)
Publisher:: Hineni Records No 423
Date of issuance:: 1973
Liner notes:: Has sections but not tracks
Language:: English/Hebrew
Provenance:: Gift of Martin Freedman April 2016
Genre:: Spoken Word/ Evangelical/Religious
Where produced:: NY, NY
Number of tracks:: 2
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Marc Chagall a poem written & read in Yiddish by Aaron Kurtz

Album ID:: K-006(a)
Publisher:: Folkways Records FL 9949
Date of issuance:: 1961/2007
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: CD Purchase Smithsonian Folkways, Sept 2012
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: Yiddish Text and Translation with album notes.

Ida Kaminska and her Yiddish State Theatre of Poland

Album ID:: K-008(a)
Publisher:: Bruno HI-FI Records BR 50196
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Theater/Spoken Word
Number of tracks:: 7
Additional notes:: Excerpts from Yiddish classics and interpretive readings.

Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן

Album ID:: K-067(a)
Publisher:: Global Village C112
Date of issuance:: 1994
Language:: Yiddish/English
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 20

On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry/ Poems by Yiddish Poets Read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער..יעווגעני קיסין

Album ID:: K-136(a)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Forward Association
Date of issuance:: 2010
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase Workmen's Circle Bookstore, March 2010
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 36

On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין

Album ID:: K-136(b)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Forward Association
Date of issuance:: 2011
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase Workmen's Circle Bookstore, Nov 2011
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 17
Additional notes:: First Lines not catalogued

Meyn Nish Di Velt Iz A Kretchme: Poems Read by Evgeny Kissin/Don't Think The World Is a Saloon — מיין נישט די וועלט איז אַ קרעטשמע: לידער געליינט פֿון יעווגעני קיסין

Album ID:: K-136(c)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Yiddish Forward
Date of issuance:: 2015
Playing time:: 23:00
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase, Yiddish Forward, December 2015
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Poetry
Where produced:: NY, NY
Number of tracks:: 14
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Nosen Dovid Korman/ Poet — נאָסן דוד קאָרמאַן\פּאָעט

Album ID:: K-140(a)
Publisher:: Station WDAS
Date of issuance:: 1970
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman, Recorded from Radio WDAS Phila., Nov 15, 1970
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Poetry
Where produced:: Philadelphia, PA
Number of tracks:: 6

The Best of Alan King

Album ID:: K-156(a)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: Bronjo Records BR 109
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Bart Banks, November 2012
Genre:: Theater/Comedy/Humorous/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

The K'dusha Symphony by Abraham Kaplan — קרש

Album ID:: K-163(a)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Abraham Kaplan
Date of issuance:: 1981
Playing time:: 52:00
Language:: English/Hebrew
Provenance:: Purchase Amazon.com, Sept, 2014
Genre:: Spoken Word/Classical/Religious
Where produced:: USA
Number of tracks:: 15
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

King Solomon's Daughter: Songs & Songs from the Jewish Tradition Renee Brachfeld, Mark Novak

Album ID:: K-177(a)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Renee Brachfeld & Mark Novak
Playing time:: 56:00
Language:: English
Provenance:: Purchase, Musuem of Jewish Heritage, August 2018
Genre:: Stories & Songs/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Washington, D.C.
Number of tracks:: 10
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

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Abe Luski /Wildacres 2012 /Original Unedited Copy

Album ID:: L-029(b)1
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Charlotte Yiddish Institute
Date of issuance:: 2012
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Abe Luski
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Charlotte, NC
Number of tracks:: 10
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.

Sam Levenson But Seriously Folks

Album ID:: L-037(a)
Publisher:: Signature SM 1026
Language:: English
Genre:: Spoken Word/Stories/Humor
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 11

Jackie Mason / Live at the London Palladium

Album ID:: M-041(b)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Angel Records 7243 8 33309 2 8
Date of issuance:: 1997
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gendelman Gift
Genre:: Humorous/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 19
Copyright information:: 19
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Jackie Mason: Brand New

Album ID:: M-041(c)
Publisher:: Columbia CT 48586
Date of issuance:: 1991
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Bart Banks, November 2015
Genre:: Stand Up Comedy/Spoken Word/Recorded Live
Where produced:: Niel Simon Theater, New York
Number of tracks:: 12
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Golda Meir: The Yom Kippur War

Album ID:: M-045(b)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: Buddah Records
Date of issuance:: 1973
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Bart Banks, March 2015
Genre:: Historic/Documentary/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Wachington, D.C.
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

MAJA / Holocaust/ Barbara Moskow

Album ID:: M-106(a)
Publisher:: Barbara Moskow
Playing time:: 39:40
Language:: Yiddish/Hebrew/English
Provenance:: Original CD Provided by Barbara Moscow, July 2012
Genre:: Spoken Word/Live Recording
Where produced:: Philadelphia, PA
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be Catalogued

Lou Mason/ If It's Lafter You Are After

Album ID:: M-124(a)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: Rivoli Records R-1968
Date of issuance:: 1968
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Bart Banks, November 2012
Genre:: Theater/Comedy/Humorous/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York, NY
Comment:: Cover autographed by Mason.
Number of tracks:: 9
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Mikve Israel/ History

Album ID:: M-135(a)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Mikve Israel
Playing time:: 10:03
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Mikve Israel Congregation, November 2014
Genre:: History/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Savannah , GA
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: MP3 files transmitted by Executive Director, Ken Chanin
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

National Yiddish Book Center/ The Best of Jewish Short Stories from Eastern Europe and Beyond

Album ID:: N-041(a)
Format:: Audio CD (2 CD's)
Publisher:: National Yiddish Book Center
Date of issuance:: 2002
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Lou Cove of the National Yiddish Book Center
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Translation
Where produced:: Amherst, MA
Number of tracks:: 7
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

National Yiddish Book Center/ Motl, the Cantor's Son read by Isaiah Sheffer

Album ID:: N-042(b)
Format:: Audio CD (2CD's)
Publisher:: National Yiddish Book Center
Date of issuance:: 2003
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Translation
Where produced:: Amherst, MA
Number of tracks:: 2
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Live From The National Yiddish Book Center

Album ID:: N-042(c)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: National Yiddish Book Center
Date of issuance:: 2008
Playing time:: 73:31
Language:: English/Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase National Yiddish Book Center, July 2014
Genre:: Klezmer/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Northampton, Mass
Number of tracks:: 9
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May

Album ID:: N-050(a)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: Mecury Records OCM 2200
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Bart Banks, November 2012
Genre:: Theater/Comedy/Humorous/Spoken Word
Number of tracks:: 4
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

The Wit and Wisdom of Morris Ossen

Album ID:: O-028(a)
Publisher:: Morris Ossen
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Bart Banks, January 2011
Genre:: Spoken Word
Where produced:: USA
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

The Golden Peacock/Ten Yiddish Writers read from their poetry and verse/ The Voice of the Yiddish Writer/Sheva Zucker — די גאָלדענע פּאַווע\ דאָס קול פֿון דעם ייִדישן שרײַבער

Album ID:: P-041(b)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Sheva Zucker
Date of issuance:: 2001
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman, Purchase KlezKamp 2001
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Where produced:: Durham, NC
Number of tracks:: 44
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Roslyn Bresnick Perry/A Real American Girl/Stories of Immigration and Acculturation

Album ID:: P-055(a)
Publisher:: Global Village C-161
Date of issuance:: 1994
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman
Genre:: Spoken Word/Memory
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 5
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Roslyn Bresnick-Perry/ Holiday Memories of a Shtetl Childhood/ Gut Yontev...Gut Yor

Album ID:: P-055(b)
Publisher:: Global Village C 144
Date of issuance:: 1990
Language:: English/Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman
Genre:: Spoken Word/Memory/Holidays
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 5
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Yizkor Shammai Rosenblum — יזכּור שמאי רוזנבלום

Album ID:: R-012(a)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 10"/s
Publisher:: Hed Arzi AN 92-93 ארצי הד
Liner notes:: Pamphlet in Hebrew and English by Nachman Blumenthal, re Lodz Ghetto
Language:: Hebrew
Genre:: Theater/Holocaust/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Ramat Gan, Israel
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: From play by Shammai Rosenblum. Recording issued under the auspices of Yad Vashem and World Jewish Congress.

Sholem Aleichem, Lakhn Iz Gezunt Performed by Shammai Rosenblum — שלום עליכם לאַכן איז געזונט אױסגעפֿירט פֿון שמאי רוזנבלום

Album ID:: R-012(e)
Publisher:: Hed-Arzi AN 92-88
Liner notes:: Rosenblum mentioned in several books as having performed in - Aushwitz.
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Lennart Kerbel, Stockholm, Sweden. June 1999
Genre:: Literary Origin/Monologues/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 3

Readings of Yiddish Literature Itzhak Rothblum — יצחק ראָטבלום פֿאָרלעזונגען און רעציטאַציעס פֿון דער ייִדישער...

Album ID:: R-017(a)
Publisher:: Privately Issued R 2573
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: USA
Number of tracks:: 5

Shmuel Rudenski Schmuel Segal My Poppa - The Tourist ! — שמואל רודענסקי שמואל סעגאַל מײַן טאַטע דער טוריסט !

Album ID:: R-040(a)
Publisher:: CBS Mono 6269
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 5

Russian Humor

Album ID:: R-084(a)
Language:: Russian/Hebrew
Provenance:: Courtesy of Lazer Trachtenberg, March 2010
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Isaac Bashevis Singer Reads In Yiddish — יצחק באַשעװיס סינגער

Album ID:: S-013(a)
Publisher:: Caedmon TC 1202
Date of issuance:: 1966
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 3
Additional notes:: Read by Author/Liner Notes by Richard M. Elman

Isaac Bashevis Singer/In My Father's Court/ Volume 1-2/ Read by David Rogow — אין מײַן טאַטנס בית־דין שטוב

Album ID:: S-013(b)
Format:: Audio CD (2 CDs)
Publisher:: Forward Association
Date of issuance:: 2004
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman, purchase
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 12
Additional notes:: Memory/Reminiscences by Isaac Bathshevis Singer as a boy of judgements made by his father in the Beth Din conducted in the household.

The Poetry of Abraham Sutzkever, The Vilno Poet

Album ID:: S-016(a)
Publisher:: Folkways Records FL 9947
Date of issuance:: 1960
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 13
Additional notes:: Liner Notes by Ruth Wisse/Reading by Sutskever

Peninnah Schramm / Garard Edery / The Mistril and the Storyteller: Stories and Songs of the Jewish People

Album ID:: S-052(c)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Sepherad Records
Playing time:: 71:31
Language:: English
Provenance:: Purchase Jewish Musuem, NY, November 2013
Genre:: Spoken Word/Stories
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 10
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

The Holocaust/ Yuri Suhl interviewed by Professor Selma Greenberg

Album ID:: S-116(a)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: Classroom Materials Company CM 1189
Date of issuance:: 1974
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Bess & Marty Katz
Genre:: Educational/Holocaust/Spoken Word/Historical
Where produced:: New York, USA
Number of tracks:: 2
Additional notes:: Recording Chipped
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Zvee Scooler/ Der Grammeister/ Yiddish -American Radio 1938-1975/ WEVD — צבֿיי סקולער\ דער גראַמצמײַסטער

Album ID:: S-149(a)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Living Traditions LTD 1804
Date of issuance:: 2006
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman, Purchase KlezKamp
Genre:: Spoken Word/Verse
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 7
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

A Pinch of Snuff and other stories by Boris Sandler read by: Mina Bern, Shifre Lerer, David Rogow — אַ שמעק טאַבעקע און אַנדערע דערציילונגען פֿון באָריס סאַנדלער

Album ID:: S-160(a)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Boris Sandler
Date of issuance:: 2001
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 4

Judischer Witz/ Jiddische Lieder: Salcia Landmann/ Oksana Sowiak/Fritz Muhlolzer

Album ID:: S-241€
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: ARS MUSIC 232148
Date of issuance:: 1993/2009
Playing time:: 68:18
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase F.Y.E. Philadelphia, PA June 2014
Genre:: Folk/Compilation/Spoken Word
Additional notes:: Fritz Muhlholzer, guitar. Erotishe, kulinarische Witze und - Liebeslieder.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

The Six Day War: Original Radio Broadcasts with Narration Written, Edited and Spoken by Brigadier General Chaim Herzog — מלחת ששת הימים

Album ID:: S-250(a)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm12"
Publisher:: CBS 63178
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Bart Banks, March 2015
Genre:: Historic/Documentary/Spoken Word/Radio Broadcasts
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 11
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level. Transliteration "Milkhumt Sheshet Hayamin"
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Jerry Sands/ Music and Comedy

Album ID:: S-252(a)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Jerry Sands
Language:: English/Yiddish/Hebrew
Provenance:: Gift of Bart Banks, January 2016
Genre:: Compilation/Spoken Word
Where produced:: USA
Number of tracks:: 12
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Fossil Or Nation Debate Arnold J. Tonybee, Yaacov D. Herzog

Album ID:: T-010(a)
Publisher:: Baroque Records BD 1847/8
Language:: English
Genre:: Spoken Word/Debate
Where produced:: USA
Number of tracks:: 4
Additional notes:: Two Album Set

Elihu Tenenholtz Reading Gems of Yiddish Literature — פֿון אוצר ייִדיש

Album ID:: T-037(a)
Publisher:: Yiddish Literature Records YLR 1002
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Hollywood, CA
Number of tracks:: 8
Additional notes:: to be catalogued
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Reb Pinkhas Mordkhe Tayts / Tractate Tonit / Fasting — ר" פּנחס מרדכי טײַץ זצ"ל \ מסכת תענית המפורש (על סדר הש"ם

Album ID:: T-071(a)
Format:: Cassette
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Spoken Word/Religious/Talmud
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

United States Holocaust Memorial Musuem/ Witnesses to the Holocaust/ Miles Lerman, Narrator

Album ID:: U-010(a)
Format:: Cassette
Publisher:: United States Holocaust Memorial Council
Date of issuance:: 1995
Language:: English
Provenance:: Donated by Robert & Molly Freedman
Genre:: Spoken Word/Holocaust
Where produced:: Washington, DC
Number of tracks:: 1
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Itche Goldberg: Oyb Nit Nokh Hekher (Video) — איטשע גאָלדבערג אויב ניט נאָך העכער (ווידיאָ)

Album ID:: V0054X
Format:: Video
Publisher:: League For Yiddish
Date of issuance:: 2000
Playing time:: 83:00
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman
Genre:: Documentary/Spoken Word/Biographical
Where produced:: New York, NY
Comment:: to be catalogued
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: to be cataloged/English Subtitles
Penn library link:: PJ5127.G6.I87 2000z

Sholom Aleichem Yortsayt 90th — שלום עליכם יאָרצײַט 90סטן

Album ID:

V0057

Format:

5 1/4 DVD

Publisher:

Haverford College

Date of issuance:

2006

Playing time:

104:00

Language:

Yiddish/English

Provenance:

Gift of Andy Cassel, September 2006

Genre:

Spoken Word/Celebration

Where produced:

Haverford, PA

Additional notes:

Disc Damaged

Penn library link:

PJ5129.R2 S56 2006

Related information in folder 1584:

Comments:: 1. 2006 (approximately) Undated program titled 90th Yortsayt of Sholom Aleichem given sometime in 2006 at Haverford College. (See DVD V0057- unfortunately damaged.)

Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman: Song of Autumn (Video) — ביילע שעגטער־גאָטעסמאַן; האַרבדטליד

Album ID:: V0061X
Format:: Video
Publisher:: League For Yiddish
Date of issuance:: 2007
Playing time:: 72:00
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman, purchase League for Yiddish, 2007
Genre:: Literary Origin/Interview/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 1
Penn library link:: PJ5129.S2723 B 49 2007

Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh/ Di Dray Shmuliks (Video) — שלום עליכם \ די קליינע מענטשעלעך \ די דרײַ שמואליקס

Album ID:: V0062
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Israel Music I.M. 2004
Date of issuance:: 2004
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman 2007
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humor/Spoken Word/Sketches
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 7
Additional notes:: See also Albums A-003(a) and A-003(h) for audio readings by "Di Dray Shmuliks"

A Yiddish World Remembered (Video)

Album ID:: V0114
Format:: Video
Publisher:: Two Cats Productions
Date of issuance:: 2004
Playing time:: 80:00
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Leyzer Trachtenberg, 2008
Genre:: Documentary/Spoken Word
Where produced:: USA
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: to be catalogued
Penn library link:: To be catalogued/ DS135.E8 Y54 2004

Interview with Majer Bogdanski 25 May 2002 with Heather Valencia (Video)

Album ID:: V0145
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Joan Levin
Date of issuance:: 2002
Playing time:: 105:00
Provenance:: Gift of Joan Levin
Genre:: Documentary/Interview/Spoken Word
Where produced:: London
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: Unedited Review Copy, not for copying or distribution/ Disc defective, not playable

S'Brent/ 3 Monologues by Sholom Aleichem / Played by Rafael Goldwaser (Video)

Album ID:: V0174(2)
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Rafael Goldwaser
Playing time:: 66:00
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase, Folksbiene Baruch College NY, November 2010
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin/Humor
Where produced:: Paris
Number of tracks:: 3
Additional notes:: English Subtitles
Penn library link:: In Process Katya

Di Eybike Dzshigan Un Shumakher (Video)

Album ID:: V0194
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Yiddishpil
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Courtesy of Lazer Trachtenberg, April 2010
Genre:: Humor/Sketches/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 1

Remembering Pesakh Fiszman / In Onddenk Fun Peysakh Fiszman (Video) — און אָנדענק פֿון פּסח פֿעשמאַן ע"ה (ווידיאָ)

Album ID:: V0196
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Workmen's Circle
Date of issuance:: 2009
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase Workmen's Circle Book Store, May 2010
Genre:: Spoken Word/Documentary
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.

Maxwell Street: A Living Memory (Video)

Album ID:: V0198
Format:: VHS
Publisher:: Eshel Productions
Playing time:: 29:00
Language:: English
Provenance:: Purchase Workmen's Circle Book Store, May 2010
Genre:: Documentary/Place/Spoken Word/Talking Heads
Where produced:: Chicago, IL
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: Written, Produced and Directed by Shuli Eshel
Penn library link:: In Process Katya

A Yiddish World Remembered (Video)

Album ID:: V0216
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Shanachie 987
Date of issuance:: 2002/2010
Playing time:: 100.00
Language:: English
Provenance:: Purchase West Chester County Bookstore, West Goshen, PA, October 2010
Genre:: Documentary/Spoken Word
Where produced:: USA
Additional notes:: PBS program
Penn library link:: Not With Katia

Monologn Fun Yidishe Shraybers: Yosl Birnshteyn (Video) — מאָנאָלאָג פֿון ייִדישע שרײַבערס: יאָסל בירנשטיין (ווידיאָ)

Album ID:: V0247
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Forward Association
Date of issuance:: 2011
Playing time:: 53:00
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase, Yiddish Forverts, November 2011
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York, New York
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.

Old Jews Telling Jokes (Video)

Album ID:

V0263

Format:

DVD

Publisher:

NTST FRF913928D

Date of issuance:

2009

Playing time:

44:00

Language:

English

Provenance:

Purchase Jewish Museum, New York, June 2012

Genre:

Spoken Word/Comedy/Vulger/Bawdy/Filthy

Where produced:

USA

Number of tracks:

Additional notes:

This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.

Penn library link:

returned by Katyia

Related information in folder 1205:

Comments:: 1. June 2012 Article in the summer 2012 edition (June 1, 2012) of the magazine "Chuptzpah" by Julie Canter under the title "Brilliant Jews Telling Jokes"

The World of Sholem Aleichem/ Zero Mostel/Nancy Walker/Sam Levine (Video)

Album ID:: V0264
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Archive of American Television EOE-DV-6905
Date of issuance:: 1959
Playing time:: 1:40.00
Language:: English
Provenance:: Purchase Jewish Museum, New York, June 2012
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin/Theatre
Where produced:: Port Washington, NY
Number of tracks:: 3
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: returned by Kaytia / to be catalogued

Monologn Fun Yidishe Shraybers: Avrom Karpinovitch (Video) — מאָנאָלאָגן פֿון ייִדישע שרײַבערס :אַבֿרהם אַרפּינאָװיטש (ווידיאָ)

Album ID:: V0266
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Forward Association
Date of issuance:: 2011
Playing time:: 45:00
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase Yiddish Forverts, July 2012
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Memoirs/History
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been cataloged at the title or track level./ Monologues by Yiddish Authors: Misha Lev
Penn library link:: returned by Katyia/ to be catalogued

Monologn Fun Yidishe Shraybers: Misha Lev (Video) — מאָנאָלאָגן פֿון ייִדישע שרײַבערס: מישע לעוו (ווידיאָ)

Album ID:: V0267
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Forward Association
Date of issuance:: 2011
Playing time:: 44:00
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase Yiddish Forverts, July 2012
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Memoirs/History
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level./ Monologues by Yiddish Authors: Misha Lev
Penn library link:: Returned by Katyia

Horizons of Hope (Video) — הורייזנס עו הוף (ווידיאָ)

Album ID:: V0272
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Alden Films
Date of issuance:: 1954
Playing time:: 20:00
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase Alden Films Oct 2012
Genre:: Spoken Word/History/Zionist/Propoganda
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: Scenes of 1954 Israel
Penn library link:: returned by Katyia

Madrid Before Hanita (Video) — מדריד לפני חניתה (ווידיאָ)

Album ID:: V0273
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Bear Family Records BVD 20119 AD
Date of issuance:: 2011
Playing time:: 54:00
Language:: German
Provenance:: Purchase CD Universe Oct 2012
Genre:: Spoken Word/History
Where produced:: Germany
Number of tracks:: 14
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level. / Can choose English Subtitles/Ephemera Folder 1223
Penn library link:: returned by Katya

Yosef Kerler: Poet Un Disident (Video) — יוסף קערלער: פּאָעט און דיסידענט (ווידיאָ)

Album ID:: V0303
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Yiddish Forverts
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase, Yiddish Forverts March 2014
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/History
Where produced:: Ny, NY
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: did not leave with KadiaThis album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Michoel Ben-Avraham: Dos Kol Fun "Kol-Yisroel" (Video) — מיכאל בובֿאַבֿרהם :דאָס קול פֿון קול־ישׂראל (ווידיאָ)

Album ID:: V0304
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Yiddish Forverts
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase, Yiddish Forverts March 2014
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/History
Where produced:: NY, NY
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: did not leave with Kadia/This album has not been catalogued at the tile or track level
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

The Jews: A People's History / Simon Shama (Video)

Album ID:: V0305
Format:: DVD (two DVD set)
Publisher:: Kultur
Playing time:: 265:00
Language:: English
Provenance:: Purchase PBS, March 2014
Genre:: Spoken Word/History
Where produced:: West Long Branch, NJ
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Avrom Karpinovitsh / Vilna Mayn Vilna (Video) — אבֿרהאַם קאַרפּינאָוויטש: ווילנע מײַן ווילנע (ווידיאָ)

Album ID:: V0307
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Yiddish Forverts
Date of issuance:: 2013
Playing time:: 42.00
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase Yiddish Forverts May 2014
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/History
Where produced:: NY, NY
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued/ not with Kadia

Yekhiel Shraybman / Yiddish Writers Monologue (Video) — יחאל שרײַבמאַן (ווידיאָ)

Album ID:: V0309
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Yiddish Forverts
Date of issuance:: 2013
Playing time:: 42:00
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase Yiddish Forverts May 2014
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Where produced:: NY, NY
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued/ not with Kadia

Chava Rosenfarb: That Bubble of Being (Video) — חוה ראָזענפֿאַרב: דאָס בלעזעלע וואָר (ווידיאָ)

Album ID:: V0326
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: League For Yiddish
Date of issuance:: 2015
Playing time:: 75:00
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase From Josh Waletsky at Univ of Penna, April 2015
Genre:: Documentary/Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Where produced:: Montreal, Canada
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Yosl Birshteyn: Monologn Fun Yidishe Shraybers (Video) — יאָסל בירשטעען: מאָנאָלאָגן פֿון ייִדישע שרײַבערס (ווידיאָ)

Album ID:: V0327
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Yiddish Forverts
Date of issuance:: 2011
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Purchase From Yiddish Forverts, May 2015
Genre:: Spoken Word/Anecdotes/Memory
Where produced:: USA
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued/not with Kadia

Chaim Grade: Significane of Modern Yiddish Literature (Video)

Album ID:: V0328
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Yiddish Book Center
Language:: Yiddish (English Subtitles)
Provenance:: Downloaded from Internet July 2015
Genre:: Spoken Word/ Literary Origin
Where produced:: Montreal, Canada
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level. Lecture Held at Jewish Public Library of Montreal Dec 7, 1957
Penn library link:: to be catalogued/ not with Kadia

Above and Beyond (Video)

Album ID:: V0329
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Playmount Productions
Date of issuance:: 2014 (?)
Language:: English
Provenance:: Purchase Nancy Spielberg, July 2015
Genre:: Documentary/Spoken Word/History
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued/ not with Kadia

An Afternoon of Yiddish Song and Poetry/ Cantor Roslyn Barak/ Poetry Reading by Rabbi Edward Zerin (Video)

Album ID:: V0334
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Rabbi Edward Zerin
Date of issuance:: 2015
Playing time:: 66:38
Language:: Yiddish/English
Provenance:: Downloaded from Utube
Genre:: Concert/Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued/not with Kadia

CultureBuzz Converses with Astrith Baltsan: Israel's Anthem "Hatikvah" (The Hope) (Video)

Album ID:: V0335
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: CultureBuzz
Playing time:: 27:00
Language:: English/Hebrew
Provenance:: Downloaded from Utube
Genre:: Spoken Word/Piano
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level. Origins of text and melody of Hatikvah and Yerushalayim Shel Zehav
Penn library link:: to be catalogued/not with K

Lost Town (Video)

Album ID:: V0336
Format:: DVD
Publisher:: Goldstreet Films
Date of issuance:: 2014
Playing time:: 90:00
Language:: English
Provenance:: Purchase, Bookstore, Yiddish Book Center, July 2015
Genre:: Spoken Word/Documentary/History
Where produced:: USA
Number of tracks:: 1
Penn library link:: not with K

Eli Wallach narrates The Night of the Murdered Poets

Album ID:: W-011(a)
Publisher:: Grenadilla GS 1051
Language:: English
Genre:: Spoken Word/Piano Concert/Historical
Where produced:: New York
Number of tracks:: 1

Bob Booker & George Foster Present You Don't Have To Be Jewish

Album ID:: W-012(b)
Publisher:: MCA Records MCA 2078
Date of issuance:: 1965
Language:: English
Genre:: Sketches/Comedic/Humorous/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 20

Betty Walker/ Aunt Lena and her entire Family Circle /Everyone Knows an Aunt Lena

Album ID:: W-013(b)
Publisher:: Jennie Records J1001
Date of issuance:: 1979
Playing time:: 41:00
Language:: English
Genre:: Sketches/Comedic/Humorous/Spoken Word
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 9

Chaim Weizman/ Israel and the Jewish People narrated by Abba Eban

Album ID:: W-033(b)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: Profile Records XTV 106755
Date of issuance:: 1965
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Bess & Marty Katz
Genre:: Documentary/Spoken Word/History
Where produced:: New York, NY
Number of tracks:: 2
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Weizmann, Man and Statesman: Vision and Synthesis

Album ID:: W-059(a)
Format:: 33 1/3 rpm 12"
Publisher:: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science
Date of issuance:: 1962
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Bart Banks, March 2015
Genre:: History/Spoken Word
Where produced:: NY, NY
Number of tracks:: 1
Additional notes:: This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
Penn library link:: to be catalogued

Yiddish Humor — יידישע הומור

Album ID:: Y-019(a)
Publisher:: Israel Music I.M ICD 5007
Playing time:: 66:00
Language:: Yiddish
Genre:: Spoken Word/Humor
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 9

Yiddish Humor Vol 4 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 4

Album ID:: Y-019(b)
Format:: Cassette X102
Publisher:: Israel Music IMC 1119
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Courtesy of Lazar Trachtenberg, March 2010
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word/Sketches
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 8
Additional notes:: With Shimon Dzigan and Others/This has not be catalogued at the first line level
Penn library link:: first line is not Catalogued

Yiddish Humor Vol 5 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 5

Album ID:: Y-019(c)
Publisher:: Israel Music IMC 1120
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Courtesy of Lazar Trachtenberg, March 2010
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word/Sketches
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 8
Additional notes:: With Shimon Dzigan and Others/This has not been catalogued at the first line level
Penn library link:: first line is not Catalogued

Yiddish Humor Vol 6 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 6

Album ID:: Y-019(d)
Publisher:: Israel Music IMC 1121
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Courtesy of Lazar Trachtenberg March 2010
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word/Sketches
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 8
Additional notes:: With Shimon Dzigan and Others/This has not been catalogued at the first line level
Penn library link:: first line is not Catalogued

Yiddish Humor Vol 7 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 7

Album ID:: Y-019(e)
Publisher:: Israel Music IMC 1133
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Courtesy of Lazar Trachtenberg March 2010
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word/Sketches
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 11
Additional notes:: With Shimon Dzigan and Others/This has not been catalogued at the first line level
Penn library link:: first line is not Catalogued

Yiddish Humor Vol 8 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 8

Album ID:: Y-019(f)
Format:: Cassette /Audio CD
Publisher:: Israel Music IMC 1134
Language:: Yiddish
Provenance:: Courtesy of Lazar Trachtenberg May 2010
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word/Sketches
Where produced:: Israel
Number of tracks:: 9
Additional notes:: With Shimon Dzigan and Others/This has not been catalogued at first line level
Penn library link:: first line is not Catalogued

Yiddish New York/Robert Freedman

Album ID:: Y-068(a)
Format:: Audio CD
Publisher:: Robert Freedman
Date of issuance:: 2020
Playing time:: 60:00
Language:: English
Provenance:: Gift of Robert Freedman, 2021
Genre:: Spoken Word
Where produced:: Philadelphia, PA
Number of tracks:: 1

Songs

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Papirene Royzn — פּאַפּירענע רױזן

Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Age/Hatred/Youth/Pain/Falsity/Loss
Origin:: Korn 13
Translation:: Korn 12

Recording

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22586
Vocal:: Perry, Roslyn Bresnick
Vocal/Yiddish Adaptation:: Levitan, Seymour
First line:: Es zenen alt geven fun arbet un fun yurn lozers hent,
First line:: עס זענען אלט געװען פֿון אַרבעט און פֿון יאָרן, לאָזערס הענט,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:21

Sholem Bayis (Peretz) — שלום בּית (פּרץ)

Author:: Peretz, Yitskhok Leybush — פּרץ, יצחק לײבוש
Genre:: Literary Origin/Short Story/Spoken Word
Subject:: Home/Peace/Contentment/Poverty/Husband/Wife/Equality
Origin:: Per Lip 146
Translation:: Per Lip 147
Additional song notes:: Peace in the Home

Recordings

On album:: R-017(a) (Readings of Yiddish Literature Itzhak Rothblum — יצחק ראָטבלום פֿאָרלעזונגען און רעציטאַציעס פֿון דער ייִדישער...)
Track ID:: 14128
Vocal:: Rothblum, Itskhak — ראָטבלום, יצחק
First line:: Khiam iz a treger. Az der geyt durkh di gas,
First line (Yiddish):: חיים איז אַ טרעגער. אַז ער גײט דורך די גאַס, אײַנגעהױקערט...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

On album:: K-010(e) (The Best of Y.L. Peretz Read by Miriam Kressyn Volume 1)
Track ID:: 36820
Author:: Peretz, Yitskhok Leybush — פּרץ, יצחק לײבוש
Narration:: Kressyn, Miriam — קרעסן, מיריאַם
First line:: Khiam iz a treger. Az der geyt durkh di gas,
First line (Yiddish):: חיים איז אַ טרעגער. אַז ער גײט דורך די גאַס, אײַנגעהױקערט...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 8:39

Der Malakhx — דער מלאך

Author:: Karpinovitsh, Avraham — קאַרפּינאָװיטש, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Subject:: Train/Conductor/Angel/Messenger/Heaven/Hell/Opinion/Exile
Additional song notes:: The Angel

Spinoze, Intelektuale Libe — ספּינאָזע, אינטעלעקטואַלע ליבע

Author:: Leivick, Halper — לײװיק, האַלפּער
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: God/Love/Neutral/Awaking/Later/Hour/Struck
Origin:: Ephemera 1437
Additional song notes:: Spinoza, Intellectual Love

Recording

On album:: L-010(b) (Poetry of H. Leivick Recorded in Yiddish by Maxim Brodyn 2)
Track ID:: 14666
Author:: Leivick, Halper — לײװיק, האַלפּער
Artist:: Brodyn, Maxim — בראָדין, מאַקסים
First line:: Intelektuale libe tsu got, keyn guts, keyn shlekhts nito,
First line:: אינטעלעקטואַלע ליבע צו גאָט, קײן גוטס, קײן שלעכטס ניטאָ,

Avrom Ovinu — אַבֿרבם אבֿענו

Author:: Brat, Yitskhak — בראַט, יצחק
Genre:: Spoken Word/Monologue/Literary Origin/Humorous
Subject:: Abraham/Cirumcision/Wife/Sarah/Birth/Machpelah/Hebron/
Additional song notes:: Our Father Abraham

Recording

On album:: D-005(d) (The Last Laugh Of Shimon Dzigan — דאָס לעצטי געלעכטער פֿון שמיון דזשיגאַן)
Track ID:: 1703
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
First line:: Zetst zikh shoyn avek, ir hot gehert fun eynem, a gevisn perekh, er hot…
First line (Yiddish):: זיץ זיך שוין אַוועק, איר האָט געהערט פֿון איינעם אַ געוויסן פרך, ער האָט…
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologue/Homourous
Length:: 8:01

Tsu Mayn Tokheter — צו מײַן טאָכטער

Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Mother/Daughter/Holocaust/Memory/Tears/Homelessness/Return
Origin:: Korn 38
Translation:: Korn 39
Additional song notes:: To My Daughter

Recording

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22590
Vocal:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Vocal:: Perry, Roslyn Bresnick
English Adaptation:: Levitan, Seymour
First line:: K'hob dikh gefirt fun land, vu unter yedn shrit es shprist tsuris'ne erd mit
First line:: כ'האָב דיך געפֿירט פֿון לאַנד װוּ אונטער יעדן שריט עס שפּריצט צעריס'נע ערד...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:52

Undzer Lid — אונדזער ליד

Author:: Kaczerginski, Shmerke — קאַטשערגינסקי, שמערקע
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Resistance/Survival/Unity/Freedom/Memory
Transliteration:: Alb B-007(o)
Translation:: Alb B-007(o)
Additional song notes:: Our Song: Tribute to Hirsh Glik/To the legacy of his song "Zog Nit Keyn Mol"

Recording

On album:: B-007(o) (Rise up and fight! Songs of Jewish Partisans)
Track ID:: 24908
Author/Vocal:: Kaczerginski, Shmerke — קאַטשערגינסקי, שמערקע
First line:: Zog nit keyn mol az du geyst dem letstn veg.....
First line (Yiddish):: זאָג ניט קײן מאָל אַז דו גײסט דעם לעצטן װעג.....
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Emotional

Vaser Un Naft — װאַסער און נאַפֿט

Author:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Genre:: Monologue/Spoken Word/Humorous
Subject:: Oil/Water/Survival/Transportation/Speed/Time/Fires/
Additional song notes:: Water and Oil

Recording

On album:: D-005(e) (Lustig Un Lebedik Freylekh (Lebedov) Dzigan's Lakh Oytser — לוסטיג און לעבעדיק דזשיגאַנס לאַך אױצר)
Track ID:: 16248
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
First line:: Zayt mir azoy gut git mir a gut glezele vaser..bevaka sha,shoyn do..vu den, naft
First line (Yiddish):: זײַט אַזוי גוט, גיט מיר אַ גוט גלעזעלע וואַסער..בעוואַקאַ שאַ..שוין דאָ,...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 4:59

Yerusholaim (Yid, Molodovsky) — ירושלים (ייִדיש, מאָלאָדאָװסקי)

Author:: Molodovsky, Kadya — מאָלאָדאָװסקי, קאַדיע
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Place
Subject:: Jerusalem/Old/Young/EternalWisdom/Blessing
Origin:: Ephemera 1329
Additional song notes:: Jerusalem

Recordings

On album:: V0296 (On The Mountaintop With Yiddish (Video) — אויפֿן שפּיץ באַרג מיט ייִדיש (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 37135
Vocal:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Oyf di berg fun yehuda dehoybn iz Yerusholaim, alt iz Yerusholaim,...
First line (Yiddish):: אױף די בערג פֿון יהוּדה דערהױבן איז ירושלים, אַלט איז ירושלים,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 6:17

On album:: G-019(a) (I Love Yiddish Emmanuel S. Goldsmith — איך האָב ליב ייִדיש)
Track ID:: 19987
Vocal:: Goldsmith, Emmanuel S.
First line:: Oyf di berg fun yehuda dehoybn iz Yerusholaim, alt iz Yerusholaim,...
First line (Yiddish):: אױף די בערג פֿון יהוּדה דערהױבן איז ירושלים, אַלט איז ירושלים,
Language:: Yiddish

On album:: L-029(b)2
Track ID:: 38072
Vocal:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Oyf di berg fun yehuda, derhoybn iz Yerusholaim. Alt iz Yerushoaim, yung iz…
First line (Yiddish):: אויף די בערג פֿון יהודה, דערהויבן איז ירשלים. אַלט איז ירושלים, יונג איז…
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 6:18

Di Bobe Benzi Un Zipre Bendl — די באָבע בענזי און זיפּרע בענדל

Genre:: Novelty/Song/Spoken Word/Khazunish
Subject:: Khazn/Melody/Joy
Additional song notes:: Granmother Benzi and Zipre Bendel/ This selection has a little bit of everything

Recordings

On album:: 054g (Silverbush, S./Wachtel, M./ Der Alter Tate/ Di Bobe Bantsi Un Tsifre Bandl)
Track ID:: 30351
Artist:: Silverbush, Sam
Artist:: Wachtel, M.

On album:: A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)
Track ID:: 36103
Vocal:: Silverbush, Sam
Vocal:: Wachtel, M.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Parody/Khazunish
Length:: 2:50

Fish Oyf Shabos — פֿיש אויף שבת

Genre:: Shetch/Spoken Word/Humorous/Comedy/Vaudeville
Subject:: Fish Monger/Housewife/Insults/Stale Fish/Bargaining
Additional song notes:: Fish For The Sabbath

Recording

On album:: 019e (Tanzman, Jos & Zeeman, Anna/ Der Italiener/ Fish Oyf Shabos)
Track ID:: 29318
Artist:: Tanzman, Yosef — טאַנזמאַן, יוסף
Artist:: Zeeman, Anna

Kalman Shadkhn Un Suzi Bren — קלמן שדכן און סוזי ברען

Genre:: Humor/Comedy/Novelty/Sketch/Spoken Word
Subject:: Marriage/Matchmaker/Faults/Rejection/Bridegrooms/
Additional song notes:: Kalman the Matchmaker and Suzy Bren/ Each suggested bridegroom worse than the other

Recordings

On album:: 019b (Silberbush & Miller/ Der Tsadik Geyt In Triater/ Kalmen Shadkhn Un Suzi Bren)
Track ID:: 29312
Artist:: Miller, Suzy — מילר, סוזי
Artist:: Silberbush, Sam

On album:: A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)
Track ID:: 36106
Vocal:: Silverbush, Sam
Vocal:: Miller, Suzy — מילר, סוזי
First line:: A taynik tsu zayn a yid, zol ikh gezunt zayn, ay vey, vist azoy...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Sketch/Spoken Word
Length:: 3:26

Der Italiener — דער איטאַליענער

Genre:: Sketch/Spoken Word/Humor/Comedy/Vaudeville
Subject:: Mixed Marriage/Prayers/Pedigree
Additional song notes:: The Italian

Recordings

On album:: 019e (Tanzman, Jos & Zeeman, Anna/ Der Italiener/ Fish Oyf Shabos)
Track ID:: 29317
Artist:: Tanzman, Yosef — טאַנזמאַן, יוסף
Artist:: Zeeman, Anna

On album:: A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)
Track ID:: 36095
Vocal:: Tanzman, Yosef — טאַנזמאַן, יוסף
Vocal:: Zeeman, Anna
First line:: Nu, got aykh danken, ikh hob shoyn gebensht likh oyf shabos,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Sketch/Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Spoken Word
Length:: 3:25

Der Tsadik Geyt In Teater — דער צדיק גייט אין טעאַטער

Genre:: Sketch/Spoken Word/Humor/Vaudeville/Novelty
Subject:: Pious Jew/Naivete/Theater/Kiss/Arousal/Ticket/Brawl
Additional song notes:: The Chassidic Rebe Goes To The Theater

Recordings

On album:: 019b (Silberbush & Miller/ Der Tsadik Geyt In Triater/ Kalmen Shadkhn Un Suzi Bren)
Track ID:: 29311
Artist:: Miller, Suzy — מילר, סוזי
Artist:: Silberbush, Sam

On album:: A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)
Track ID:: 36105
Vocal:: Silverbush, Sam
Vocal:: Miller, Suzy — מילר, סוזי
First line:: ..mayn man, a klug tsu dir, vi bistu geven azoy shpet, di vetshera...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Sketch/Spoken Word
Length:: 3:00

Froyen Nakht in a Terkishe Bod — פֿרױען נאַכט אין אַ טערקישע באָד

Genre:: Novelty/Humor/Sketch/Spoken Word
Subject:: Shvitz/Relaxation/Gossip/Turkish Bath/Women/Heat
Additional song notes:: Women's Night At The Turkish Bath

Recordings

On album:: A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)
Track ID:: 36101
First line:: Hello missus fine, hello missus vine, vohin geyt ir, in turkishn bod,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Sketch/Spoken Word
Length:: 3:34

On album:: 059f (Hoffman, Anna/ Jacobs, Betty/ Hoffman, Anna/ Jacobs, Jacob/ Froyen Nakht in a Terkishe Bod/ Yenta Beim Dentist)
Track ID:: 30565
Speaker:: Hoffman, Anna
Speaker:: Jacobs, Betty — דזהייקאָבס, בעטי
Language:: Yiddish

Yente Baym Dentist — יענטע בײַם דענטיסט

Genre:: Novelty/Humor/Sketch/Spoken Word
Subject:: Dentist/Extraction/Gold Tooth/Envy
Additional song notes:: Yente At The Dentist - Yente wants a gold tooth so that her neighbor will be envious.

Recordings

On album:: A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)
Track ID:: 36102
Vocal:: Hoffman, Anna
Vocal:: Jacobs, Betty — דזהייקאָבס, בעטי
First line:: Shoyn, du bist tseyn doktor, anshuldikt missus, do voynt nishto a tseyn doktor,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Sketch/Spoken Word
Length:: 3:23

On album:: 059f (Hoffman, Anna/ Jacobs, Betty/ Hoffman, Anna/ Jacobs, Jacob/ Froyen Nakht in a Terkishe Bod/ Yenta Beim Dentist)
Track ID:: 30566
Speaker:: Jacobs, Jacob — זשאַקאָבס, זשאַקאָב
Speaker:: Hoffman, Anna
Language:: Yiddish

Bist Geshen, Bist Gevorn — ביסט געשען, ביסט געװאָרן,

Author:: Glatshteyn, Yakov — גלאַטשטײַן, יעקבֿ,
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: You Were, You Happened

Recording

On album:: R-017(a) (Readings of Yiddish Literature Itzhak Rothblum — יצחק ראָטבלום פֿאָרלעזונגען און רעציטאַציעס פֿון דער ייִדישער...)
Track ID:: 2475
Author:: Glatshteyn, Yakov — גלאַטשטײַן, יעקבֿ,
Artist:: Rothblum, Itskhak — ראָטבלום, יצחק
First line:: Kh'ken in dayn likhtik ponim nisht kukn,
First line (Yiddish):: כ'קען אין דײַן ליכטיק פּנים נישט קוקן,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

A Khazn Vos Hust — אַ חזן װאָס הוסט

Also known as:: Histendiker Khazn
Genre:: Spoken Word/Sketch/Character Study/Monologue/Humorous
Subject:: Khazn/Cough/Congregation
Additional song notes:: Coughing Cantor

Recordings

On album:: M-047(d) (Cantors Klezmorim and Crooners: 1905-1953 / Classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection B)
Track ID:: 35582
Vocal:: Schwartz, Maurice
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Monolog/Spoken Word
Length:: 3:18

On album:: S-003(b) (Maurice Schwartz)
Track ID:: 315
Vocal:: Schwartz, Maurice
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Monolog/Spoken Word

On album:: C-023(f) (The Golden Years of Cantorial Music Vol. 1)
Track ID:: 316
Vocal:: Schwartz, Maurice
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Monolog/Spoken Word

Buloff, Joseph: Speech Manger Prize — ווערטער פֿון יוסף בולאָף: מאַנגער פּרײַז

Author:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Genre:: Speech/Spoken Word
Subject:: Thanks/Itzik Manger
Additional song notes:: Manger Prize Ceremony 1973

Recording

On album:: B-047(d)2 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD 2 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 2)
Track ID:: 33094
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: A dank iz der hoykhstn oysdruk fun a dank, dos ken ikh zogn,
First line (Yiddish):: אַ דאַנק איז דער גרעסטער אוסדרוק פֿון אַ דאַנק, דאָס קען איך אײַך זאָגן
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:34

Instant Yiddish-Introduction

Author:: Kogos, Fred
Genre:: Spoken Word
Subject:: Yiddish/Instruction

Recording

On album:: Y-014(a) (Instant Yiddish / Featuring Maria Karnilova and Zvee Scooler)
Track ID:: 33246
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Kadya Molodowsky read by Abe Luski

Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Kadia Molodovsky/Poetry/Literature/Yiddish

Recording

On album:: V0009
Track ID:: 33829
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 46:00

Kadya Molodowsky read by Abe Luski

Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Kadia Molodovsky/Poetry/Literature/Yiddish

Recording

On album:: V0009
Track ID:: 33829
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 46:00

Joseph Papernikov read by Abe Luski

Genre:: Literary Origin/Documentary/Spoken Word
Subject:: Yosef Papernikov/Poetry/Literature/Yiddish

Recording

On album:: V0023
Track ID:: 33856
Vocal:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
Producer:: Eneman, Sam
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 60:00

I Wrote The Most Important Things Down

Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Subject:: Memory
Additional song notes:: Believe that this may have been written by Tshernokhovsky

Recording

On album:: V0029
Track ID:: 33907
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Nisele — ניסעלע

Author:: Verbe, Shifre
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Subject:: Child/Family/Holocaust/Comfort/Tears

Recording

On album:: V0029
Track ID:: 33911
Reader:: Verbe, Shifre
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Un Ikh Veys — און איך ווייס

Author:: Kopshteyn, Bracha — קאָפּשטיין, בּרכה
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin

Recording

On album:: V0029
Track ID:: 33914
Spoken Word:: Kopshteyn, Bracha — קאָפּשטיין, בּרכה
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Uri Tsvi Grinberg Read by Abe Luski

Genre:: Video/Literary Origin/Documentary/Spoken Word
Subject:: Uri Tsvi Grinberg/Poetry/Literature/Yiddish/Hebrew

Recording

On album:: V0025
Track ID:: 33918
Producer:: Eneman, Sam
Reader:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
Language:: Yiddish/Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word/
Length:: 47:00

2013 Year Old Man (Pt. 1)

Author:: Reiner, Carl
Author:: Brooks, Mel
Genre:: Humorous/Spoken Word/Skits
Subject:: Free Ranging

Recording

On album:: B-103(a) (2000 and Thirteen/ Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks)
Track ID:: 36629
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

A Shmek Tabeke — אַ שמעק טאַבעקע

Also known as:: A Pinch Of Snuff
Author:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
Genre:: Literary Origin/ Spoken Word/ Short Story

Recording

On album:: S-160(a) (A Pinch of Snuff and other stories by Boris Sandler read by: Mina Bern, Shifre Lerer, David Rogow — אַ שמעק טאַבעקע און אַנדערע דערציילונגען פֿון באָריס סאַנדלער)
Track ID:: 34815
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 28:08

Di Bobe Ele — די באָבע עלע

Author:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
Genre:: Literary Origin/ Spoken Word/ Short Story

Recording

On album:: S-160(a) (A Pinch of Snuff and other stories by Boris Sandler read by: Mina Bern, Shifre Lerer, David Rogow — אַ שמעק טאַבעקע און אַנדערע דערציילונגען פֿון באָריס סאַנדלער)
Track ID:: 34816
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 10:55

Di Zilberne Shlang Un Antkegn Shpigl — די זילבערנע שלאַנג און אַנטקעגן שפּיגל

Also known as:: The Silver Snake and In The Mirror
Author:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
Genre:: Literary Origin/ Spoken Word/ Short Story/Fables
Subject:: King Solomon / Shulamith
Additional song notes:: The two stories are characterized as a "Diptych" - A work made up of two matching parts.

Recording

On album:: S-160(a) (A Pinch of Snuff and other stories by Boris Sandler read by: Mina Bern, Shifre Lerer, David Rogow — אַ שמעק טאַבעקע און אַנדערע דערציילונגען פֿון באָריס סאַנדלער)
Track ID:: 34817
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
Vocal:: Bern, Mina — בערן, מינע
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: SpokenWord
Length:: 18:18

Dem Tatns Tog — דעם טאַטנס טאָג

Also known as:: A Day For Daddy
Author:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
Genre:: Literary Origin/ Spoken Word/ Short Story

Recording

On album:: S-160(a) (A Pinch of Snuff and other stories by Boris Sandler read by: Mina Bern, Shifre Lerer, David Rogow — אַ שמעק טאַבעקע און אַנדערע דערציילונגען פֿון באָריס סאַנדלער)
Track ID:: 34818
Vocal:: Lerer, Shifra — לערער, שפרה
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 14:47

Der Alter Reb Pinkhas Fun Horodenke — דער אַלטער ר' פּנחס פּון האָראָדענקע

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Joy/Sorrow/Soldier/Poet/Death/Rank/Solitude/Fool/Reputation
Origin:: Manger 343
Additional song notes:: The Old Reb Pinkhas From Horodenke from "Dermerung In Shpigl" (The Darkening Mirror)

Recording

On album:: G-104(a) (Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Itzik Manger Poems and Ballads — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט איזיק מאַנגער ליד און באַלאַדע)
Track ID:: 35359
Vocal:: Greenhoyz-Turkov, Shura — גרינהויז־טורקאָוו, שורא
First line:: Der altereb pinkhas fun horodenke flegt yedn ovnt shteyn farn toyer:...
First line (Yiddish):: דער אַלטער ר' פּנחס פּון האָראָדענקע פֿלעגט יעדן אָוונט....
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:19

Avrom Goldfaden Oyf Der Elter — אַבֿראָם גאָלדפֿאַדען אויף דער עלטער

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Emigration/America/Goldfaden/Father/Neglect
Additional song notes:: Abraham Goldfaden In His Old Age

Recording

On album:: G-104(a) (Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Itzik Manger Poems and Ballads — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט איזיק מאַנגער ליד און באַלאַדע)
Track ID:: 35361
Vocal:: Greenhoyz-Turkov, Shura — גרינהויז־טורקאָוו, שורא
First line:: Zey zenen zikh tsufloygn, vi di feygl iberal, di feygl vos khob ot gehovet...
First line (Yiddish):: זיי זענען זיך צופֿלויגן, ווי די פֿייגל איבעראַל, די פֿייגל וואָס האָט אָט...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:36

Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites..,Introduction — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט...,אַראַײַנפֿיר

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Manger/Literary Contribution

Recording

On album:: G-104(a) (Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Itzik Manger Poems and Ballads — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט איזיק מאַנגער ליד און באַלאַדע)
Track ID:: 35354
Vocal:: Greenhoyz-Turkov, Shura — גרינהויז־טורקאָוו, שורא
First line:: Itzik Manger iz avek fun groy tsu bloy, a troyer hot arungenumen di yiddishn...
First line (English):: איציק מאַנגער איז אַוועק פֿון גרוי צו בלוי, אַ טרויער האָט אַרומגענומען די ...
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:48

A Korbn — אַ קרבן

Author:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Genre:: Literary Origin/Memory/Spoken Word
Subject:: Divorce/Judgement/Love/Curses
Additional song notes:: The Sacrifice

Recording

On album:: S-013(b) (Isaac Bashevis Singer/In My Father's Court/ Volume 1-2/ Read by David Rogow — אין מײַן טאַטנס בית־דין שטוב)
Track ID:: 35371
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
Adaptation:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
First line:: Oysterlishe mentshn zene faran, un oysterlish zenen teyl mol kheshboynes...
First line (Yiddish):: אויסטערלישע מענטשן זענען פֿאַראַן, און אויסטערליש זענען טײַל מאָל חשבונות,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 13:30

Far Vos Hobn Zey Opgelozt Dem Shidukh — פֿאַר וואָס האָסן זיי אָפּגילאָסזט דעם שידיך

Author:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Genre:: Literary Origin/Memory/Spoken Word
Subject:: Judgement/Din Toyre/Couple
Additional song notes:: A Broken Engagement

Recording

On album:: S-013(b) (Isaac Bashevis Singer/In My Father's Court/ Volume 1-2/ Read by David Rogow — אין מײַן טאַטנס בית־דין שטוב)
Track ID:: 35372
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
Adaptation:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
First line:: Ikh bin oft geven der shames gegangi rufn yidn tsu a din toyre,
First line (Yiddish):: איך בין אָפֿ געווען דער שמשׂ, געגאַנגן רופֿן ייִדן צו אַ דין תורה,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 12:06

An UmheymlekheShayle — אַן אומהיימלעכע שאלה

Author:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Genre:: Literary Origin/Memory/Spoken Word
Subject:: Beth Din/Judgement/Shabos/Weekday/Poverty/Charity/Couple
Additional song notes:: A Gruesome Question. The gruesome question was "Can One Sleep With A Dead Wife?

Recording

On album:: S-013(b) (Isaac Bashevis Singer/In My Father's Court/ Volume 1-2/ Read by David Rogow — אין מײַן טאַטנס בית־דין שטוב)
Track ID:: 35373
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
Adaptation:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
First line:: Shabos tsu nakhts iz ale mol geven bay undz halb yontovtik, bazunder in vinter,
First line (Yiddish):: שבת צו נאַכטס איז אַלע מאָל געווען בײַ אונדז האַלב יומטאָבֿדיק, באַזונדערס אין..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 13:32

Di Lame Kale — די לאַמע כּלה

Author:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Genre:: Literary Origin/Memory/Spoken Word
Subject:: Bride/Cripple/Visior/Haskalnik/Wedding/Fraud/Godless
Additional song notes:: The Lame Bride

Recording

On album:: S-013(b) (Isaac Bashevis Singer/In My Father's Court/ Volume 1-2/ Read by David Rogow — אין מײַן טאַטנס בית־דין שטוב)
Track ID:: 35374
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
Adaptation:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
First line:: Ven di tir hot zikh ge'efent bay undz in kikh, un es iz arayngekumen a lang...
First line (Yiddish):: ווען די טיר האָט זיך גע'עפֿנט בײַ אונדז אין קיף, עס איז אַרײַנגעקומען אַ...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 12:30

Eyn Khusn Un Tsvey Kales — איין חתן און צויי כּלהס

Author:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Genre:: Memory/LiterarOrigin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Curses/Scribe/Poverty/Love/Rejection/Beth Din/Jucgement
Additional song notes:: One Groom and Two Brides

Recording

On album:: S-013(b) (Isaac Bashevis Singer/In My Father's Court/ Volume 1-2/ Read by David Rogow — אין מײַן טאַטנס בית־דין שטוב)
Track ID:: 35375
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
Adaptation:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
First line:: Di tir hot zikh ge'efent un es zenen arayn tsvey yidn un tsvey meydn.
First line (Yiddish):: די טיר האָט זיך גע'עפֿנט און עס איז זענען אַרײַנגעקומען צוויי ייִדן און צוויי...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 9:34

Kvurs-khumur — קבֿורת־חמור

Author:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Memory
Subject:: Suicide/Poison/Love/Compassion/Burial/Beth Din/Judgement
Additional song notes:: The Sucicide

Recording

On album:: S-013(b) (Isaac Bashevis Singer/In My Father's Court/ Volume 1-2/ Read by David Rogow — אין מײַן טאַטנס בית־דין שטוב)
Track ID:: 35376
Adaptation:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
First line:: In undzer shtub hot men geredt vegn alerley zakhn, di eltere kinder hobn...
First line (Yiddish):: אין אונדזער שטוב האָט מען גערעדט וועגן אַלערליי זאַכן, די עלטערע קינדער...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 10:16

Der Sud (Singer) — דער סוד (סינגער)

Author:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Genre:: Literary Origin/Memory/Spoken Word
Subject:: Jewess/Seduced/Bastard/Judgement/Penance
Additional song notes:: The Secret

A Tog Mit Farganign — אַ טאָג מיט פֿאַרגאַניגאַן

Author:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Genre:: Literary Origin/Memory/Spoken Word
Subject:: Money/Ruble/Indulgence/Lies/Regrets/Dissipation
Additional song notes:: A Day of Pleasures

Recording

On album:: S-013(b) (Isaac Bashevis Singer/In My Father's Court/ Volume 1-2/ Read by David Rogow — אין מײַן טאַטנס בית־דין שטוב)
Track ID:: 35378
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
Adaptation:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
First line:: Ven di tsaytn zenen bay undz gute, hob ikh yedn tog bakumen fun tatn oder fun..
First line (Yiddish):: ווען די צײַטן זענען בײַ אונדז גוטע האָב איך יעדן טאָג באַקומען פֿון טאַטן אָדער...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 9:21

A Khasene (Singer) — (אַ חתונה (סינגער

Author:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Genre:: Literary Origin/Memory/Spoken Word
Subject:: Whore Houses/Prostitutes/Youth/Marriage/Hope/Mitzva
Additional song notes:: A Wedding

Recording

On album:: S-013(b) (Isaac Bashevis Singer/In My Father's Court/ Volume 1-2/ Read by David Rogow — אין מײַן טאַטנס בית־דין שטוב)
Track ID:: 35379
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
Adaptation:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
First line:: Di krokhmalne gas uz geven ungepakt mit shand heyzlekh. Es zogt tsu bloyz...
First line (Yiddish):: די קראָכמשלמאַלמע גאַס איז געווען אונגעפּאַקט מיט שאַנד הײַזלעך, עס זאָגט צו...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 11:52

Tsu Zeydns Un Bobes — צו זיידנס און באָבעס

Author:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Genre:: Literary Origin/Memory/Spoken Word
Subject:: Family/Yikhes/Ancestry/Maskilim/Chasidim/Misnogdim
Additional song notes:: The Family Tree

Recording

On album:: S-013(b) (Isaac Bashevis Singer/In My Father's Court/ Volume 1-2/ Read by David Rogow — אין מײַן טאַטנס בית־דין שטוב)
Track ID:: 35380
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
Adaptation:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
First line:: Vegn mayn muters mishpokhe hob ikh gevust asakh, ober mayn foter hot zeltn...
First line (Yiddish):: וועגן מײַן מוטערס משפּחה האָב איך געוווּסט אַ סך, אָבער מײַן פֿוטער האָט זעלטן..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 11:49

Nokh Der Khasene (Singer) — נאָך דער חתונה (סינגער)

Author:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Genre:: Literary Origin/Memory/Spoken Word
Subject:: Grandfather/Philosophy/Gruffness/Sons/Daughters/Mother
Additional song notes:: After The Wedding

Recording

On album:: S-013(b) (Isaac Bashevis Singer/In My Father's Court/ Volume 1-2/ Read by David Rogow — אין מײַן טאַטנס בית־דין שטוב)
Track ID:: 35381
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
Adaptation:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
First line:: Di bilgorayer zeyde hot gefirt di shtot, hot gehat a groyser mishpokhe,...
First line (Yiddish):: דער בילגאָרייער רבּע האָט געפֿירט די שטאָט, האָט געהאַט אַ גרויסער משפּחה,...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 10:41

Keyn Varsha — קײַן וואַרשאַ

Author:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Genre:: Literary Origin/Memory/Spoken Word
Subject:: Rebbe/Chasidim/Courtyard/Family/Doubts/Poverty/Warsaw/Travel
Additional song notes:: To Warsaw

Recording

On album:: S-013(b) (Isaac Bashevis Singer/In My Father's Court/ Volume 1-2/ Read by David Rogow — אין מײַן טאַטנס בית־דין שטוב)
Track ID:: 35383
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
Adaptation:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
First line:: Der Rebe iz geven a reisike parshoyn, hoykh, dik, mit a breyter gele bord,
First line (Yiddish):: דער רבּע איז געווען אַ ריזיקע פּאַרשוין, הויך, מיט אַ געוואַלדיקן בויך,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 11:54

Getzel at a Baseball Game

Genre:: Humorous/Novelty/Spoken Word
Subject:: Baseball/Misunderstanding/Cantors/Yankee Stadium/Ticket
Additional song notes:: Based upon "Berl BassPlayer Plays Baseball

Recording

On album:: M-047(c) (Cantors Klezmorim and Crooners: 1905-1953 / Classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection A)
Track ID:: 35553
Vocal:: Rosenberg, Mikhl — ראָזענבערג, מיכל
First line:: Ay, Amerike ganev...hert, bay mir a khazn iz der grester zakh in der velt,
First line (Yiddish):: אײַ, אַמעריקע גנבֿ...הערט, בײַ מיר איז אַ חזן דער גרעסטער זאַך אין דער וועלט,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Rapid Fire Delivery
Length:: 3:14

Telebende Furt Keyn Amerike — טעלעבענדע פֿורט קיין אַמעריקע

Author:: Kovner, B. — קאָװנער, ב.
Genre:: Novelty/Humor/Sketch/Spoken Word
Subject:: Gossip.Travel/Amerike/Invitation/President/Poverty

Recording

On album:: M-047(d) (Cantors Klezmorim and Crooners: 1905-1953 / Classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection B)
Track ID:: 35584
Vocal:: Gold, Clara — גאָלד, קלאַראַ
Vocal:: Goldstein, Gus
First line:: Yente Telebende, vi forstu? Vi ikh for, keyn amerike. Yetst, Yente Telebende...
First line:: יענטע טעלעבענדע, ווי פֿאָרסטו? ווי איך פֿאָר, קיין אַמעריקע. יעצט, יענטע...
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word/Sketch
Length:: 3:08

Lansky/Der Yidisher Mafiuner (Video)

Genre:: Drama/Spoken Word/Character Study/One Man Show
Subject:: Lansky/Gangsters/Biography/Loss

Recording

On album:: V0191 (Lansky/ Der Yidisher Mafiuner/ The Jewish Mafioso (Video) — לאַנסקי \ דער ייִדישעא מאַפֿיונער)
Track ID:: 35725
Performer/Vocal:: Bodo, Yakov — בודו, יעקבֿ
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/One Man Show/Monologue

Oyf Tshikaves — אויף טשיקאַוועס

Author:: Vergelis, Aaron — װערגעליס, אהרן
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Curiousity/Synagogue/Church/Heaven/Earth
Additional song notes:: As a Matter of Interest

Recording

On album:: K-136(a) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry/ Poems by Yiddish Poets Read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 35761
Artist:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Der beys medresh shteyt in himl un der kloyster af der erd, af tshikove,
First line (Yiddish):: דער בית־מדרש שטייט אין הימל און דער קלויסטער אַף דער ערד, אַף טשיקאַוועס,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Length:: 01:22

Kh'hob Gezen A Barg — כ'האָב געזען אַ באַרג

Author:

Shulshtein, Moshe — שולשטיין, משה

Genre:

Holocaust/Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Subject:

Mountain/Shoes/Witness/Holy/

Translation:

Ephemera 998

Additional song notes:

I Saw A Mountain

Related information in folder 998:

Comments:: 1. Translation of poem by Moshe Shulstein from http://jeromerosenberg.com/work/survivours.htm and from http://www.sarafryd.com/2101/04/12/i -saw-a mountain

A Gute Nakht Velt — אַ גוטע נאַכט וועלט

Author:: Glatshteyn, Yakov — גלאַטשטײַן, יעקבֿ,
Genre:: Literary origin/Holocaust/Spoken Word
Subject:: Protest/Return/Ghetto/Curse/World
Origin:: Harsh 304/Sh Sh 435
Translation:: Glat Blum 48/HG TYP 333/Harsh 305/Sh Sh 434
Additional song notes:: Hood Night, World

Motzart — מאָצאַרט

Author:: Glatshteyn, Yakov — גלאַטשטײַן, יעקבֿ,
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Mozart/Music/Admiration/Divine/Crucifiction
Origin:: Whitman 8
Translation:: Whitman 8

Di Freyd Fun Yidishn Vort — די פֿרייד פֿון ייִדישן וואָרט

Author:: Glatshteyn, Yakov — גלאַטשטײַן, יעקבֿ,
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Yoy/Language/Yiddish/Memory/Use/Return
Origin:: Harshav 364
Translation:: Harshav 365

In Ondenk Fun Pesakh Fiszman (Video) — און אָנדענק פֿון פּסח פֿעשמאַן ע"ה (ווידיאָ)

Genre:: Documentary/Spoken Word
Subject:: Yiddish/Education

Recording

On album:: V0196 (Remembering Pesakh Fiszman / In Onddenk Fun Peysakh Fiszman (Video) — און אָנדענק פֿון פּסח פֿעשמאַן ע"ה (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 35754
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Teater Fun Mayn Neshome — דעט טעאַטאָר פֿון מײַן נשמה

Author:: Vergelis, Aaron — װערגעליס, אהרן
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Soul/Theater/Angels/Demons/War
Additional song notes:: My Soul's Theater

Recording

On album:: K-136(a) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry/ Poems by Yiddish Poets Read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 35762
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Fun an eygenem gefil bin ikh..farmatert, bin farkishevt ven es shpilt mayn...
First line (Yiddish):: פֿון אַן עגענעם געפֿיל בין איך..פֿאַרמאַטערט, בין פֿאַרכּישפֿעט ווען עס שפּילט מײַן
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Length:: 01.28

Kaf-Hakal — כּף־הקל

Author:: Vergelis, Aaron — װערגעליס, אהרן
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: God/Ambivalence/Life/Death/Carnival
Additional song notes:: Strength and Poverty

Recording

On album:: K-136(a) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry/ Poems by Yiddish Poets Read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 35763
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Mit got hot geshlosn yadakes, far mir hot er tsuris, gebrotene, amol tu ikh...
First line (Yiddish):: מיט גאָט האָט געשלאָסן יעדאַכעס, פֿון מיר האָט ער צרהות, געבראָטענע, אַמאָל טו איך...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Length:: 01:03

Lem Der Ozere — לעם דער אָזערע

Author:: Mogilner, Boris — מאָגילנער, באָריס
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Lake/Shore/Proximity/Darkness/Cold
Additional song notes:: Next to the Lake

Poyser Kholom — פּותר חלום

Author:: Mogilner, Boris — מאָגילנער, באָריס
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Memory/Mother/Dream/Bris/Voice
Additional song notes:: Interpret A Dream

Intelektuele Libe — אינטעלעקטועלע ליבע

Author:

Leivick, Halper — לײװיק, האַלפּער

Genre:

Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Subject:

Intellectual Love/Anomaly/God/

Additional song notes:

Intellectual Love from Soinoza Cycle #1

Related information in folder 1437:

Comments:: 1. 8/27/2014 Yiddish text provided by Chava Kramer entered in ephemera on August 27, 2014

Recording

On album:: K-136(a) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry/ Poems by Yiddish Poets Read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 35781
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Kumt interlletuale libe tsu got, kum got, keyn shlekhts, nito di nakht...
First line (Yiddish):: קומט אינטעלעקטואַלע ליבע צו גאָט, קום גאָט, קײַן שלעגטס, ניטאָ די נאַכט שוועסטער..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Length:: 01:40

Vi Kumt Aher — ווי קומט אַהער

Author:: Leivick, Halper — לײװיק, האַלפּער
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Sickroom/Spinoza/View
Additional song notes:: How Does One Come Here from Spinoza Cycle #2

Recording

On album:: K-136(a) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry/ Poems by Yiddish Poets Read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 35782
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Vi kumt aher in kranken kamer, filosof, der amsterdamer, ikh kuk zikh eyn,
First line (Yiddish):: ווי קומט אַהער, אין קראַנקן קאַמער, דער פֿילאָסאָף, דער אַמסטעדאַמער, איך קוק...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Length:: 01:16

Er Zogt "Tsu Nakht" — ער זאָגט ,,צו נאַכט"

Author:: Leivick, Halper — לײװיק, האַלפּער
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Spinoza/Night/World/Obedience
Additional song notes:: He Said "To The Night" from Spinoza Cycle @3

Recording

On album:: K-136(a) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry/ Poems by Yiddish Poets Read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 35783
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Shpinoza efent di oygn un zogt "tsu nakht, tsu velt", az di host geheysn zikh...
First line (Yiddish):: שפּינאָזאַ עפֿענט די אויגן און זאָגט ,,צו נאַכט, צו וועלט", אַז דו האָסט געהייסן..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Length:: 01:21

Tsvey Mol Tsvey Iz Fir — צוויי מאָל צוויי איז פֿיר

Author:: Leivick, Halper — לײװיק, האַלפּער
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Counting
Additional song notes:: Two and Two is Four from Spinoza Cycle #11

Brokhshtiker — בראָכשטיקער

Author:

Markish, Peretz — מאַרקיש, פּרץ

Genre:

Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Lament

Subject:

Loss/Murders/August 12/Poets/USSR

Origin:

Fein 89

Translation:

Ephemera 1017/Fein 88

Additional song notes:

Stone Shards

Related information in folder 1017:

Comments:: 1. English translation from the internet. Poem commemoratingn the Night of the Murdered Poets, August 12, 1952

Glust Zikh Mir Veynen

Author:: Bialik, Khaim Nakhman — ביאַליק, חיים נחמן
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Origin:: Bialik Lider 3

Mozart — מאָצאַרט

Author:: Glatshteyn, Yakov — גלאַטשטײַן, יעקבֿ,
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Mozart/Crucification/Music/Sacred/Dream/Deification
Origin:: Whitman 8
Translation:: Voices 259/Whitman 9

Opgebrente Binen — אָפּגעברענטע בינען

Author:: Ben Chaim-Basman, Rivke — בן־חיים-באָסמאַן רבקה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Holocaust
Subject:: Bees/Complaints/Honey/Yiddish/Melody/Service to God/Burned
Additional song notes:: Burned Bees

Gezen Hob Ikh Yidishe Verter — געזען באָב איך ייִדישע ווערטער

Author:: Kulbak, Moyshe — קולבאַק, משה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Yiddish/Words/Flame/Fireflies/Sparks/Doves/Homeless/Loss
Origin:: Fein 95
Translation:: Fein 94
Additional song notes:: I Saw Yiddish Words

Gezangen Umklure — געזאַנגען אומקלאָרע

Author:: Kulbak, Moyshe — קולבאַק, משה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Ambiguity/Words/Women
Additional song notes:: Ambigious Songs Unclear Melodies

Efsher Zing Ikh — אפֿשר זינג איך

Author:: Kulbak, Moyshe — קולבאַק, משה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Heart/Blood/Psalms/Prayer/Night/Day
Additional song notes:: Perhaps I Sing

Poezie — פּאָעזיע

Author:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Poetry/Plum/Delicate/Weightless/Eye
Origin:: Penguin YID 693
Translation:: Penguin YID 692
Additional song notes:: Poetry

Di Rondn Fun A Taykh — די ראַנדן פֿון אַ טײַך

Author:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Mountain/View/Riverbanks/Reflection/Destruction/Publicize
Translation:: Voices 352
Additional song notes:: The Banks of a River

Der Royter Hon — דער רויטער האָן

Author:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Rooster/Moyshe Leyb/Widow/Image/Poets/Loss/New York

Zayn A Yid — זײַן אַ ייד

Author:: Zeitlin, Aaron — צײַטלין, אַהרן
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: God/Prayer/Scoffer/Belief/Meshiekh/
Origin:: Penguin YID 539
Translation:: Penguin YID 538
Additional song notes:: To Be A Jew

Tekst — טעקסט

Author:: Zeitlin, Aaron — צײַטלין, אַהרן
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Words/Description/Objects/People Stones/Glass Splinters
Origin:: Betsky 3
Transliteration:: Betsky 3
Translation:: Betsky 3
Additional song notes:: Text

Vayse Nekht/White Nights — ווײַסע נעכט

Author:: Dropkin, Celia — דראַבקין, ציליע
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/
Subject:: Place/East Broadway/Sorrow/Rootless/Grief/Loss/Dream
Origin:: Penguin YID 329
Translation:: Penguin YID 328

Mir Zenen Gegangen Durkh Teg — מיר זענען געגאַנגען דורך טעג

Author:: Margolin, Anna — מאַרגאָלין, אַנאַ
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Days/Storm/Gardens/Experiences/Life/Death/Love/Passion
Additional song notes:: We Expierenced Many Days

Ful Mit Nakht Un Geveyn — פֿול מיט נאַכט און געוויין

Author:: Margolin, Anna — מאַרגאָלין, אַנאַ
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Omen/Parting/Night/Silence/Pain/Paradise/Locked
Origin:: Fein 33
Translation:: Fein 33

Kh'hob Zi Derzen Baym Taykh — כ'האָב זי דערזען בײַם טײַך

Author:: Hofshteyn, Dovid — האָפֿשטײַן, דוד
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: River/Spied/Nude/Wife/Love
Additional song notes:: I Saw (Spied) Her At The River

In Eyngn Tsimer — אין ענגן צימער

Author:: Hofshteyn, Dovid — האָפֿשטײַן, דוד
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Narrow/Room/Clothes/Rumpled/Sloppiness/Memory/Loss
Additional song notes:: In A Narrow Room

A Tropn Toy — אַ טראָפּן טוי

Author:: Halkin, Shmuel — האַלקין, שמואל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Condescension/Twig/Dew/Self Importance/
Additional song notes:: A Drop of Dew

Ikh Gey Un Her Dem Klang Fun Mayne Trit — איך גיי און הער דעם קלאַנג פֿון מײַנע טריט

Author:: Halkin, Shmuel — האַלקין, שמואל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Indecision/Sound/Footsteps/

Koreishe Novele — קאָרעיִשע נאָוועלע

Author:: Kazakevitsh, Emanuel — קאַזעקעװיטש, עמנואל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Language/Yiddish/Guitar/Love/Odd/Sun
Additional song notes:: Korean Short Story

Tiferes — תפארת

Author:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Beauty/Blindness/Senses/Feel/Darkness/Ray/Goal
Additional song notes:: Beauty/Splendor/Magnificance

Gaoness — גאונות

Author:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Genius/God/Devil/Fate/Demons/Partnership/Mud
Additional song notes:: Genius

Di Stezhke — די שטעזשקע

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Path/Overgrown/Creativity/Longing/Memory/Autumn
Additional song notes:: The Path

Recording

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22610
Vocal:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Vocal/English Adaptation:: Levitan, Seymour
First line:: Tsvishn krope... un vildn vulyon, farvaksn mit devitkhtn..??
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:47

Vos Iz Khanike — וואָס איז חנוכה

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: What is Chanukah

Recording

On album:: E-004(a) (Readings In Yiddish by Ya'akov Einstein — יעקב אײנשטײן לײנט שאַפֿונגען אין ייִדיש)
Track ID:: 35874
Vocal:: Eynshteyn, Yakov — אײנשטײן, יעקבֿ
First line:: Bay undz khanike iz...un es iz azoy likhtgik in harts, fun leybl shoykhet hob...
First line (Yiddish):: בײַ אונדז איז חנוכה אַזוי ליכטיק אין האַרטס, פֿון לייבל שוחט האָב איך דעמעלט...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 15:31

Bay Mayn Bikher Shank — בײַ מײַן ביכער שאַנק

Author:: Korman, Nosn Dovid — קאָרמאַן, נתן דוד
Genre:: Literary Origin/Poetry/Spoken Word/Lament
Subject:: Bookcase/Authors/Mourn/Sorrow/Bullet/Words/Power/Beria
Origin:: Korman 71
Additional song notes:: From MY Book Case

Recording

On album:: K-140(a) (Nosen Dovid Korman/ Poet — נאָסן דוד קאָרמאַן\פּאָעט)
Track ID:: 35925
Vocal:: Korman, Nosn Dovid — קאָרמאַן, נתן דוד
First line:: Ikh shtey, vi an avl, baym shenkl mit bikher, un yedes mol nem ikh a bukh fun...
First line (Yiddish):: איך שטיי ווי אַן אָבֿל, בײַם שענקל מיט ביכער, און יעדעס מאָל נעם איך אַ בוך..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Briv — בריוו

Author:: Korman, Nosn Dovid — קאָרמאַן, נתן דוד
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Poetry/Holocaust/Lament
Subject:: Letter/Family/Loss/Imagination/Fate/Grave/Sorrow/
Origin:: Korman 174
Additional song notes:: Letters

Recording

On album:: K-140(a) (Nosen Dovid Korman/ Poet — נאָסן דוד קאָרמאַן\פּאָעט)
Track ID:: 35926
Vocal:: Korman, Nosn Dovid — קאָרמאַן, נתן דוד
First line:: Ikh shrayb oft a briv mayn farbrente mishpokhe, a briv in gedank, mayne brider..
First line (Yiddish):: איך שרײַב אָפֿט אַ בריוו מײַן פֿאַרברענטע משפּחה, אַ בריו אין געדאַנק, מײַנע...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Es Feln Mir Kloles — עס פֿעלן מיר קללת

Author:: Korman, Nosn Dovid — קאָרמאַן, נתן דוד
Genre:: Literary Origin/Poestry/Spoken Word/Holocaust/Lament
Subject:: Curses/Family/Loss/Trains/Camps/Memory/Mother/Sorrow
Origin:: Korman 178
Additional song notes:: Curses Fail Me

Recording

On album:: K-140(a) (Nosen Dovid Korman/ Poet — נאָסן דוד קאָרמאַן\פּאָעט)
Track ID:: 35927
Vocal:: Korman, Nosn Dovid — קאָרמאַן, נתן דוד
First line:: Ikh bin nisht geshtanen mit zey in di reyen, ven toyt hot gehoglt fun nastishe..
First line (Yiddish):: איך בין נישט געשטאַנען מיט זיי אין די רייען, ווען טויט האָט געוואָגלט פֿון...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

A Tfile Tsu Der Velt — אַ תפֿילה צו דער וועלט

Author:: Korman, Nosn Dovid — קאָרמאַן, נתן דוד
Genre:: Literary Origin/Poetry/Spoken Word
Subject:: Prayer/Miracles/Land/Inheritance/Zionist/Peace/Freedom
Origin:: Korman 188
Additional song notes:: A Prayer to the World/Written in 1967: Is this a reaction to the 1967 War

Recording

On album:: K-140(a) (Nosen Dovid Korman/ Poet — נאָסן דוד קאָרמאַן\פּאָעט)
Track ID:: 35928
Vocal:: Korman, Nosn Dovid — קאָרמאַן, נתן דוד
First line:: Ikh bet dikh, velt, kuk nisht iber undz ariber, vish oys di briln dayne fun...
First line (Yiddish):: איך בעט דיך וועלט, קוק נישט איבער אונדז אַריבער, וויש אָויס די ברילן דײַנע...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Introduction By Robert Freedman

Genre:: Comment/Spoken Word
Subject:: Arther Shoyer/Songs

Recording

On album:: S-176(a) (Arthur Shoyer / From Reel to Reel Recording and Field Recording at Penn)
Track ID:: 36013
Vocal:: Freedman, Robert
First line:: This is Arthur Shoyer, who several years ago...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Dos Tepl (Video) — דאָס טעפּל (ווידיאָ)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humor/Monologue/Character Study/Spoken Word
Subject:: Pot/Rebbe/Complaint/Humor/
Additional song notes:: The Pot

Recording

On album:: V0174
Track ID:: 36089
Vocal:: Goldwaser, Rafael
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Talis Kutn (Video) — דער טלית־קטן (ווידיאָ)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Monologue/Characters/Humor
Subject:: Talis-Kutn/Sting/Trick/Charity/
Additional song notes:: Talis Kutn is a four-cornered tasseled undergarment worn by Orthodox Jews. Story depicts three characters: Yoel Tashker, pious stingy millionare, (never gives to charity) Kompanitsch, Tasker's tenant, a free thinking gambler, lawyer- eats pork, somes on shabos, etc.. And Froike Sheygets - Froike the scamp (known as Got's Ganev- a pious fraud). Froyke and Kompanvitsch conspire to trick Tashker into a bet for 100 rubles (a fortune) that Kompanovitsch is wearing a talis kutn in order to give to a charity. Tashker could not believe that Kompanovitsch would wear a talis kutn and took the bet.

Recording

On album:: V0174
Track ID:: 36091
Vocal:: Goldwaser, Rafael
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Borech Un Zorech — ברוך און זרח

Genre:: Vaudeville/Sketch/Humor/Spoken Word/Double Entendres
Subject:: Drunk/Coversation/Aggrevation/Wife's Meat Restuarant/Patrons
Additional song notes:: Wife offers customers "thighs, legs, meats, etc..."

Recording

On album:: A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)
Track ID:: 36110
Vocal:: Wilner, Max — װילנער, מאַקס
Vocal:: Doctor, Rubin — דאָקטאָר, רובין
First line:: Hi, di di..fe fe, nit sheyn a yid a shiker, fe, farvos hostu genumen trinken...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Sketch/Spoken Word
Length:: 3:16

A Bal Agole Shul — אַ בּעל עגלה שול

Genre:: Vaudeville/Sketch/Humor/Spoken Word/Double Entendres/Chants
Subject:: Teamster's Synagogue/Insults/Sermon Parody
Additional song notes:: The Teamster's Synagogue

Recording

On album:: A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)
Track ID:: 36111
Artist:: Wilner, Max — װילנער, מאַקס
Vocal:: Doctor, Rubin — דאָקטאָר, רובין
Vocal:: Doctor, Rubin — דאָקטאָר, רובין
First line:: Yam hoyd, reb getzl ben hakoved, shlishi, vos, gib im a make, nisht keyn toyre,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Parody//Chants/Sketch
Length:: 3:14

Jews For Jesus, Intro

Author:: Altman, Sean
Author:: Altman, Sean
Author:: Tannenbaum, Rob
Composer:: Altman, Sean
Composer:: Altman, Sean
Genre:: Spoken Word
Subject:: Conversion/Loyalty/Anger/Disdain/Pamphlet
Origin:: Ephemera 1081

Recording

On album:: U-088(b)
Track ID:: 36128
Vocal:: Spurney, Jon
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:30

The Porno Made Me Do It, Intro

Author:: Altman, Sean
Author:: Tannenbaum, Rob
Composer:: Altman, Sean
Composer:: Tannenbaum, Rob
Genre:: Noveltyt/Humor/Spoken Word/Kvetching
Subject:: Pornography/Attraction/Pornographer/Repulsion

Recording

On album:: U-008(a) (What I Like About Jew/ Unorthodox/ Songs by Sean Altman and Rob Tannenbaum)
Track ID:: 36301
Vocal/Kvetcher:: Goldstein, Al
First line:: What the hell, it's always the same thing, everybody likes pornography,...
Language:: English
Style:: Pop/Novelty/Spoken Word/Kvetching
Length:: 0:29

It's Good To Be A Jew At Chrstmas, Intro

Author:: Tannenbaum, Rob
Composer:: Tannenbaum, Rob
Genre:: Novelty/Spoken Word
Subject:: Family/Song/Singing/Chanukah

Recording

On album:: U-008(a) (What I Like About Jew/ Unorthodox/ Songs by Sean Altman and Rob Tannenbaum)
Track ID:: 36306
First line:: There's nothing like singing together for good old family fun, get into the...
Language:: English
Style:: Pop/Novelty
Length:: 0:09

Cohen, Cherl

Genre:: Message/Spoken Word
Subject:: Request

Recordings

On album:: C-069(a) (Cheryl Cohen / Field Recording)
Track ID:: 36372
Vocal:: Cohen, Cheryl
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:07

On album:: C-059(a) (Cherkassy Jewish Sunday School)
Track ID:: 36375
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:00

On album:: C-069(a) (Cheryl Cohen / Field Recording)
Track ID:: 36378
Vocal:: Cohen, Cheryl
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:23

On album:: C-069(a) (Cheryl Cohen / Field Recording)
Track ID:: 36382
Vocal:: Cohen, Cheryl
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:18

Zev Jabotinsky/ Interview January 1931 — זאב ז'בוטנסקי \ דרום אפריקה

Genre:: Spoken Word/Historical/Political

Recording

On album:: J-050(a) (Zev Jabotinsky/ Interview January 1931 — זאב ז'בוטנסקי \ דרום אפריקה)
Track ID:: 36557
Vocal:: Jabotinski, Zev — ז'בּוטינסקי, זאב
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 18:39

Jack Gottlieb/ Working...Berstein (Video)

Genre:: Spoken Word/Interview
Subject:: Experience/Leonard Bernstein/Jack Gottlieb

Recording

On album:: V0241 (Jack Gottlieb/ Working & (Not Working) with Bernstein (Video))
Track ID:: 36559
Vocal:: Gottlieb, Jack
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Jack Gottlieb/ Interview 1998 (Video)

Genre:: Spoken Word/Interview
Subject:: Experience/Leonard Bernstein/Jack Gottlieb

Recording

On album:: V0242 (Jack Gottlieb/ Interviewed by Neil Levine (Video))
Track ID:: 36560
Vocal:: Gottlieb, Jack
Vocal / Interviewer:: Levin, Neil
First line:: I knew more about the Jewish end of things more than I did about the classical..
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Jack Gottlieb/ Neil Levine Interview (Video)

Genre:: Interview/Spoken Word
Subject:: Max Helfman/Cantors

Recording

On album:: V0242 (Jack Gottlieb/ Interviewed by Neil Levine (Video))
Track ID:: 36562
Vocal:: Gottlieb, Jack
Vocal / Interviewer:: Levin, Neil
First line:: I knew more about the Jewish end of things that I did about the so called...
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Interview

Sarah Fersht Mayn Lebens Geshikhte — שׂרה פֿערשט מײַן לעבנס געשיכטע

Author:: Fersht, Sarah — פֿערשט, שרה
Genre:: Spoken Word/Field Recording/Biography
Subject:: Family/Ancestry/
Additional song notes:: Sarah Fersht Her Biography

Recording

On album:: F-085(a) (Molly Freedman: Oral Histories)
Track ID:: 41589
Vocal:: Fersht, Sarah — פֿערשט, שרה
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Mayn Lebns Geshikhte — מײַן לענס געשיכטע

Genre:: Spoken Word/Field Recording
Subject:: Biography/Life/Experience/Memory
Additional song notes:: Story of My Life

Recordings

On album:: M-069(a) (The Seder Made Easy / Cantor Shlomo Mandel /Before The Meal)
Track ID:: 36608
Vocal:: Fersht, Sarah — פֿערשט, שרה
First line:: Ikh vel aykh zogn mayn lebens geshikhte. Mayn nomen iz Sara Fersht,
First line (Yiddish):: איך וועל אײַך זאָגן מײַן לעבנס געשיכטע. מײַן נאָמען איז שרה פֿערשטת געבוירן....
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Field Recording
Length:: 5:16

On album:: F-096(a)
Track ID:: 36583
Vocal:: Fersht, Sarah — פֿערשט, שרה
First line:: Ikh vel aykh zogn mayn lebns geshikhte. Mayn nomen iz Sara Fersht, geboyren in..
First line:: איך וועל אײַך זאָגן מײַן לעבנס געשיכטע. מאַן נאָמען איז שרה פֿערסט, געבוירען...
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 5:16

Remarks by Davidson (Davy)

Author:: Davidson, (Davy) Shlomo — דאַווידסאָן, שלמה
Genre:: Field Recording/Spoken Word
Subject:: Biography/Bessarabia/Memory/Emigration/Family/Ideology

Recording

On album:: D-035(a) (Davidson Field Recording)
Track ID:: 36627
First line:: Ikh vil nit haltn keyn rede yetst, Ikh hob gevolt zikh aropredn fun hartsn,
First line (Yiddish):: איך וויל ניט האָלטן קיין רעדע יעצט, איך האָב געוואָלט זיך אַראָפּרעדן פֿון האַרצן
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 9:14

Birnbaum Memorial / Introductory Remarks

Genre:: Spoken Word/Field Recording
Subject:: Martin Birnbaum

Recording

On album:: B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
Track ID:: 36630
Vocal:: Unknown Speaker
First line:: Ikh vil aykh betn farnemen di erter, es iz faran a tsol pletser do, there are..
First line (Yiddish):: איך וויל אײַך בעטן פֿאַרנעמען די ערטער, עס איז פֿאָראָן אַ צאָל פּלעצער דאָ,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 12:56

Birnbaum Memorial / Ven Ikh Vel Shoyn Zayn — ווען איך וועל שוין זײַן

Author:: Birnbaum, Martin — ביררנבוים, מאַרטין
Genre:: Literary Origin / Spoken Word
Subject:: Death/Non Existence/Unity With Nature/Continuity With Poetry
Origin:: LVL 48
Additional song notes:: When I Am No Longer

Recording

On album:: B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
Track ID:: 36631
Spoken Word:: Piskovitsh, Sonia — פיסקאָוויטסש, סאָניע
First line:: Ven Ikh vel shoyn zayn, a grezl, a volkn-pintl, a bletl -- ven ikh alts zikh...
First line (Yiddish):: ווען איך וועל שוין זײַן אַ גרעזל, אַ וואָלקן־פּינטל, אַ בלעטל--ווען איך אַלץ..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:35

Birnbaum Memorial / Poem Without Title

Author:: Glotkin, Chaim — גלאָטקין, חײַם
Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording

Recording

On album:: B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
Track ID:: 36632
Vocal:: Glotkin, Chaim — גלאָטקין, חײַם
First line:: Es hot mayn zunekeyt farloshn un er untern brut (?) mayn otem farsloshn...
First line (Yiddish):: עס האָט מײַן זונעקייט פֿאַרלאָשן און ער אונטערן ברוט (?) מײַן אָטעם פֿאַרלאָשן...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:30

Birnbaum Memorial / Kaddish — קדיש

Author:: Glotkin, Chaim — גלאָטקין, חײַם
Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording

Recording

On album:: B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
Track ID:: 36633
Vocal:: Glotkin, Chaim — גלאָטקין, חײַם
First line:: Un fun mir in mayn zunekeyt zikh ikh fun a vund shpiel...shtekhn atsind..
First line (Yiddish):: און פֿון מיר אין מײַן זונעקייט זיך איך פֿון אַ וווּנד שפֿיל...שטעכן אַצינד...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:17

Birnbaum Memorial / Dos Lid

Author:: Birnbaum, Martin — ביררנבוים, מאַרטין
Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording / English
Subject:: Poem/Smile/Gold/Mother/Flood/Heart/Humanity
Origin:: LFHUN 27

Recording

On album:: B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
Track ID:: 36634
Vocal/English Adaptation:: Levine, Sonia Lerner — לעווײַן, סאָניע לערנער
First line:: A poem is the smile of a drowsing child, a poem is heavens golden orb,
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:13

Birnbaum Memorial / Songs Perspective

Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
Origin:: Martin Birnbaum/ Mani Leyb/ Morris Rosenfeld

Birnbaum Memorial / Tevye Levine — טביה לעווין

Author:: Levine, Tevye — לעווין, טביה
Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
Subject:: Common Experiences/Teachers/Secular Schools/Students
Additional song notes:: Friend and Colleague

Recording

On album:: B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
Track ID:: 36640
First line:: Ikh vel nit leynen keyn lider. Ikh vel redn vi a fraynd, a perzendlikher…
First line (Yiddish):: איך וועל ניט ליינען קײַן לידער. איך וועל רעדן ווי אַ פֿרײַנד, אַ פּערזענדליכער...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 4:49

Birnbaum Memorial / Kh'hob Lib Amol — כ'האָב ליב אָמאָל

Author:: Birnbaum, Martin — ביררנבוים, מאַרטין
Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
Subject:: World Above/World Below/Complementary
Origin:: LVL 95
Additional song notes:: I Once Loved

Recording

On album:: B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
Track ID:: 36641
Vocal:: Stefini, Peter — סטעפֿעני, פיטער
First line:: Kh'hob lib amol dem roysh fun ibertraybn; fun shagalish flien iber dekher...
First line:: כ'האָב ליב אַמאָל דעם רויש פֿון איבערטרײַבן, פֿון שאַגאַליש פֿליען איבער דעכער...
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:35

Birnbaum Memorial / Ikh Hob A Gelibter — איך האָב אַ געליבטער

Author:: Birnbaum, Martin — ביררנבוים, מאַרטין
Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
Subject:: Yiddish/Constant Gift/Being/Identity/Consolation/
Origin:: LFHUN 20
Additional song notes:: I have A Lover

Recording

On album:: B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
Track ID:: 36642
First line:: Ikh hob a gelibte shoyn lang, zeyer lang! Git zi mir yedn tog a geshank.
First line (Yiddish):: איך האָב אַ געליבטע שוין לאַנג, זייער לאַנג! גיט זי מיר יעדן טאָג אַ געשאַנק.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:25

Birnbaum Memorial / About Ikh Hob a Gelibter

Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording

Recording

On album:: B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
Track ID:: 36643
Vocal:: Unknown Speaker
First line:: From an...of love, sensuous, and not until the end do we find out that it is a.
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:35

Birnbaum Memorial / Ruth Rubin / Remarks

Author:: Rubin, Ruth — רובין, רותּ
Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording

Recording

On album:: B-138(b) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 2)
Track ID:: 36644
Vocal:: Rubin, Ruth — רובין, רותּ
First line:: Martin, dear friend, talented poet, wonderful teacher, vibrant person,...
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:50

2013 Year Old Man (Pt. 2)

Genre:: Humorous/Spoken Word/Skits
Subject:: Free Ranging

Recording

On album:: B-103(a) (2000 and Thirteen/ Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks)
Track ID:: 34425
Vocal:: Brooks, Mel
Vocal:: Reiner, Carl
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Birnbaum Memorial / Songs in Perspective

Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
Subject:: Martin Birbaum/Mani Leyb/Morris Rosenfeld/ Martin As Teacher

Recording

On album:: B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
Track ID:: 36639
First line:: The purpose of this..provides an anthology, but really to give us a sense of...
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:51

Birnbaum Memorial / The Old Poet

Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
Subject:: Poet/Aches/Creativity/Lonliness/

Recording

On album:: B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
Track ID:: 36635
Vocal:: Levine, Sonia Lerner — לעווײַן, סאָניע לערנער
English Adaptation:: Barlas, Ruth — באַרלאַס, רותּ
First line:: His walk, no longer hurried is weighted with pain, too often now there sounds...
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:23

Birnbaum Memorial / Di Vor — די וואָר

Author:: Birnbaum, Martin — ביררנבוים, מאַרטין
Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
Subject:: Furrier/Occupation/Reverie/Imagination/Prisoner/Wander/Road
Additional song notes:: The Truth

Recording

On album:: B-138(b) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 2)
Track ID:: 36648
Vocal:: Goldberg, Dovid — גאָלדבערג, דוד
First line:: Nem bruder, zak un pak, un loz zikh iber shliakh, Vayl dakh farshtelt...
First line:: נעם ברידער זאַק און פּאַק און נעם זיך איבערן שליאַך, ווײַל דאַך פֿאַרשטעלט...
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 4:09

Birnbaum Memorial / Gut Geven — גוט געווען

Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
Subject:: Sweatshop/Prisoner/Spring/Wasted Life/Love
Additional song notes:: It Was Good

Recording

On album:: B-138(b) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 2)
Track ID:: 36649
Vocal:: Goldberg, Dovid — גאָלדבערג, דוד
First line:: Itst vet friling hot zikh in mayn blut tsuzingen, manyien felder, stav mit...
First line:: איצט וועט פֿרילינג האָט אין מײַן בלוט צוזינגען, מאַניען פֿעלדער, סטאַוו מיט...
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:53

Birnbaum Memorial / Uri Suhl Tape

Author:: Suhl, Yuri — סול, יורי
Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
Subject:: Martin Birnbaum/Memory/Common Experiences/Friendship

Recording

On album:: B-138(b) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 2)
Track ID:: 36650
Vocal/English Adaptation:: Suhl, Yuri — סול, יורי
Vocal:: Unknown Speaker
First line:: Yuri Suhl, Martin's nuenste khaver a gants lebn kon nit zayn do..
First line:: יורי סוהל, מאַרטינס מוענצע חבֿר אַ גאַנץ לעבן קען מיט זײַן דאָ...
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:39

Birnbaum Memorial /Gotinu I Am Willing To Die

Author:: Birnbaum, Martin — ביררנבוים, מאַרטין
Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording/Humorous
Subject:: Death/No Appropriate Season/Summer/Winter/Fall/Spring
Additional song notes:: Translation of one of Birnbaum's Poems: Title Not Accounced

Recording

On album:: B-138(b) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 2)
Track ID:: 36651
Vocal:: Suhl, Yuri — סול, יורי
First line:: Gotinyu, I am willing to die, but not in the most beautiful season of the year,
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 4:10

Birnbaum Memorial / I Yearn

Author:: Birnbaum, Martin — ביררנבוים, מאַרטין
Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
Subject:: Child/Music/Memory/Life/Redemption
Additional song notes:: Translations of one of Birnbaum's Poems/ Title not announced

Recording

On album:: B-138(b) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 2)
Track ID:: 36652
Vocal:: Suhl, Yuri — סול, יורי
First line:: I yearn to recognise the..in the stream of tears and in a smile the purity of..
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:25

Birnbaum Memorial / Ven Iz A Dikhter Modern? — ווען איז אַ דיכטער מאָדערן

Author:: Birnbaum, Martin — ביררנבוים, מאַרטין
Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
Subject:: Poetry/Author/Relevance/Modernity/Definite/Critics
Origin:: LVL 48
Additional song notes:: When Is An Author Modern?

Recording

On album:: B-138(b) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 2)
Track ID:: 36653
Vocal:: Fein, Yoni — פֿײַן, יוני
First line:: Ven iz a dikhter modern -- in plonter fun verter-vervarn? Ven men horkht un...
First line (Yiddish):: ווען איז אַ דיכטער מאָדערן – אין פּלאָנטער פֿון ווערטער־ווערוואַרן? ווען מען...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:06

Birnbaum Memorial / Remarks (An Appreciation)

Genre:: Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
Subject:: Martin Birnbaum/Poetry

Recording

On album:: B-138(b) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 2)
Track ID:: 36654
Vocal:: Unknown Speaker
First line:: Martin, dear Martin, our Martin was a miracle poet, in a world of modern poetry,
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 7:30

Mir — מיר

Also known as:

Author:

Der Nister — דער ניסתר

Author:

Der Nister — דער ניסתר

Genre:

Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Additional song notes:

Related information in folder 1132:

Comments:: 1. Yiddish Text Shpigl 127

Recordings

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36715
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Oy ver veyst undz verzshe vayst undz, undz di kinder nokh fun alt folk,
First line (Yiddish):: אוי ווער ווייסט אונדז, וועזשע אונדז, אונדז די קינדער פֿון אַלט פֿאָלק, נאָך פֿון....
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 7:40

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 39081
Orator:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Words, Poetry
Length:: 11:08

Undz Di Shpetse — אונדז די שפּעטטע

Author:

Kvitko, Leyb — קװיטקאָ, לײב

Genre:

Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Subject:

Promise/Violence/Expelled/Rocks

Additional song notes:

Us, The Latest Ones

Related information in folder 1133:

Comments:: 1 Yiddish Text, Shpigl 349

Recording

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36716
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Undz di shpeste iz tsgezogt gevorn dos vildenish vet vern opgerotn fun di...
First line (Yiddish):: אונדז די שפעסטע איז צוגעזאָגט געוואָרן דאָס ווילדעניש וועט ווערן אָפגעראָטן פון..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:07

Du Vos Geyst Mir Nokh — דו וואָס גייסט מיר נאָך

Author:

Kvitko, Leyb — קװיטקאָ, לײב

Genre:

Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Subject:

Descendants/Followers/Footsteps/Guard/Sight

Additional song notes:

You Who Follow Me

Related information in folder 1134:

Comments:: 1. Yiddish Text, Shpigl 339

Recording

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36719
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Du vos geyst mir nokh, vos trit, vos gedenkst mikh ven ikh farges zikh,
First line (Yiddish):: דו וואָס גייסט מיר נאָך, וואָס טריט, וואָד געדענקסט מיך ווען איך פֿאַרגעס זיך,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:53

Mir Shtamen Fun Feldzn — מור שטאַמען פֿון פֿעלדזן

Author:: Hofshteyn, Dovid — האָפֿשטײַן, דוד
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Ancestry/Memory/Rocks/Defiance/Unbreakable/Fate
Additional song notes:: We Are Decended From Rocks

Recording

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36720
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Mir shtamen fun feldzn, gemoltest mit shteyn fun di tsaytn, vos hobn dem goyrl
First line (Yiddish):: מיר שטאַמען פֿון פֿעלדזן, געמאָלטעסט מיט שטיין פֿון די צײַטן, וואָס האָבן דעם גורל...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:02

Rosea — ראַסייאָ

Author:

Kushnirov, Aaron — קושניראָוו, אהרן

Genre:

Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Subject:

Inform/Educate//Occurrences

Related information in folder 1137:

Comments:: 1. Yiddish Text, Shpigl 312

Recordings

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 39073
Orator:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Words, Poetry
Length:: 7:40

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36722
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Ver vet undz dertsaylen, ver vet undz bavistiken fun geshenim un fun gezenim,
First line (Yiddish):: ווער וועט אונדז דערציילען, ווער וועט אונדז באַוווּסטיקען פֿון געשייענים און פֿון..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 6:20

Veys Ikh Nit Tsi Kh'bin In Dr'heym — ווייס איך ניט צי כ'בין אין דער היים

Author:

Markish, Peretz — מאַרקיש, פּרץ

Genre:

Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Song comment:

Home/Homeless/Suspension/Shirt/Unbuttoned/Haste/

Additional song notes:

Don't Know If I'm At Home

Related information in folder 1143:

Comments:: 1 Yiddish Text, Shpigl 375 2. English Adaptation by Armand Schwerner, HG TYP 23

Recording

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36723
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Veys ikh nit tsi kh'bin in dr'heym, tsilib der fremd, ikh loyf, farshipet mayn..
First line (Yiddish):: ווייס איך ניט צי כ'בין אין דר'הייםת ציליב דער פֿרעמד, איך לויף, פֿאַרשפּילערט...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:00

Hey Vos Handlt Ir Dort - Umet? — היי וואָס האַנדלט איר דאָרט - אומעט?

Author:

Markish, Peretz — מאַרקיש, פּרץ

Genre:

Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Subject:

Trade/Sales/Sorrow/Customer/Middleman/Greed/Despair

Additional song notes:

Hey, What Are You Selling - Lonliness?

Related information in folder 1140:

Comments:: 1. Yiddish Text, Shpigl 382 2. English Adaptation by Amelia Glaser, HG TYP 182

Recording

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36724
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Hey vos handlt ir dort - umet? Vos farkoyft ir dor? Yeish? Ikh bin a koyne...
First line (Yiddish):: היי, וואָס האַנדלט איר דאָרט – אומעט? וואָס פֿאַרקויפֿט איר דאָרט? יעש? איך בין אַ קונה
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:59

Host A Shtikl Harts? — האָסט אַ שטיקל האַרץ?

Author:

Markish, Peretz — מאַרקיש, פּרץ

Genre:

Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Subject:

Compassion/Silence/Cry Out/Death/Balalaykes

Additional song notes:

Do You Have Some Caompassion?

Related information in folder 1141:

Comments:: 1. Yiddish Text, Shpigl 383

Recording

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36725
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Host a shtikl harts? Farshvayg es. Vilst zikh shvaygn, shray tsum toyt.
First line (Yiddish):: האָסט אַ שטיקל האַרץ? פֿאַרשווײַג עס. ווילסט זיך שווײַגן, שרײַ צום טויט.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:58

Maestoso Patetico

Author:: Markish, Peretz — מאַרקיש, פּרץ
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Invitation/Meal/Unknown Time/Unknown Date/ChurchBells

Recordings

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 39089
Orator:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36726
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Ikh bin af an oremen moltsayt farrufn un veyst nit vohin un tsu ven.
First line (Yiddish):: איך בין אַף אַן אָרעמען מאָלצײַט פֿאַררופֿן און ווייסט ניט וווּהין און צו ווען.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:00

Ikh Hob Keyn Mol Nit Geblondzshet — איך האָב קיין מאָל ניט געבלאָנזשעט

Author:

Fefer, Itsik — פֿעפֿער, איציק

Genre:

Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Subject:

Path/Constancy/Memory/Grandfather Rabbi

Additional song notes:

I Never Lost My Way

Related information in folder 1139:

Comments:: 1 Yiddish Text, Shpigl 676

Recording

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36727
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Ikh hob keyn mol nit geblondzshet in mayn kurtsn shmekhlen lebn, lakht in mir...
First line (Yiddish):: איך האָב קיין מאָל ניט געבלאָנדזשעט אין מײַן קורצן שמעכלען לעבן, לאַכט אין מיר...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:23

Nu Iz Vos Az M'hot Mir gemlet? — נו איז וואָס אַז מ'האָט מיר געמלעט?

Author:: Fefer, Lt. Col Itzik — פֿעפֿער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Circumcision/Memory/Faith/Rejection
Additional song notes:: So What If I Were Circumcised?

Recording

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36728
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Nu iz vos az m'hot mir gemlet un gepravet vi bay yidn a bris,
First line (Yiddish):: נו איז וואָס אַז מ'האָט מיר געמלעט און געפּראַוועט ווי בײַ יידן אַ ברית,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:12

Yiddish (Feffer) — ייִדיש (פֿעפֿער)

Author:: Fefer, Lt. Col Itzik — פֿעפֿער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Language/Pride/Peretz/Beauty/Precious/Literature
Additional song notes:: Yiddish

Recording

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36729
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: S'iz a dinst hot men geshrayen in der tsaynt fun di haskalah, s'iz a malkele...
First line (Yiddish):: ס'איז אַ דינסט יםא צקמ געשרײַען אין דער צײַט פֿון די השׂכּלה, ס'אז אַ מלכּהלע...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:21

Di Shvue (Feffer)

Author:

Fefer, Itsik — פֿעפֿער, איציק

Genre:

Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Subject:

Oath/Hate/Revenge/Enemy/Vanquish/Nation/Parents

Additional song notes:

The Oath

Related information in folder 1142:

Comments:: 1 Yiddish Text, Shpigl 693

Recording

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36730
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Ikh shver bay der likhtןke zun, bay di shtoyl un di shtern, ikh shver haynt...
First line (Yiddish):: איך שווער בײַ דער ליכטיקע זון, בײַ די שטויל און די שטערן, איך שווער הײַנט...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:30

Vos Meynt Er Der Berliner Letz? — וואָס מײַנט ער דער בערלינער לץ?

Author:: Fefer, Itsik — פֿעפֿער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Hitler/Beast/Goal/Revenge/Justice/Jester/Fool
Additional song notes:: What Does The Berlin Jester Mean By That

Recording

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36731
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Vos meynt er, der berliner lets, der yoysher iz shoyn avekgegangen?
First line (Yiddish):: וואָס מיינט ער, דער בערלינער לץ, דער יושר איז שוין אַוועקגעגאַנגען?
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:15

Prints Reuveni — פּרינץ ראבֿני

Author:: Bergelson, Dovid — בערגעלסאָן, דוד
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Excerpt
Additional song notes:: Prince Reuveni An Excerpt

Recording

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36732
Spoken Word:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Ir zayt mayn folk un ayer alter vunsh hob ikh in hartsn bay zikh getrogn,
First line (Yiddish):: איר זײַט מײַן פֿאָלק און אייער אַלטן וווּנש האָב איך אַן האָרץ בײַ זיך געטראָגן,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:37

Ikh Veyn Oyf Aykh Mit Ale Oysyes — איך וויין אויף אײַlך מיט אָלע אותיות

Author:: Grade, Chaim — גראַגע, חײם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Excerpt
Additional song notes:: I Cry Over You With All The Letters of the Alphabet An Excerpt

Recording

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36733
First line:: Ikh veyn oyf dir mit ale oyseyes fun dem alef-beys vos ikh hob undz farmogt...
First line (Yiddish):: איך וויין אויף גיר מיט אַלע אותיות פֿון דעם אַלף־בית וואָס איך האָב אונדז פֿאַרמאָגט
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 11:01

Jerusalem 1991 ( Birshteyn)

Author:: Birshteyn, Yosl — בןרשטיין, יאָסל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Jerusalem
Additional song notes:: Anecdote from DVD - Monologn fun Yosl Bernshteyn V0247

Recording

On album:: V0247 (Monologn Fun Yidishe Shraybers: Yosl Birnshteyn (Video) — מאָנאָלאָג פֿון ייִדישע שרײַבערס: יאָסל בירנשטיין (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 36746
Vocal:: Birshteyn, Yosl — בןרשטיין, יאָסל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

No Mouses Tail (Birshteyn)

Author:: Birshteyn, Yosl — בןרשטיין, יאָסל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Anecdote from DVD - Monologn fun Yosl Bernshteyn V0247

Recording

On album:: V0247 (Monologn Fun Yidishe Shraybers: Yosl Birnshteyn (Video) — מאָנאָלאָג פֿון ייִדישע שרײַבערס: יאָסל בירנשטיין (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 36748
Vocal:: Birshteyn, Yosl — בןרשטיין, יאָסל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Living With Yiddish and Hebrew

Author:: Birshteyn, Yosl — בןרשטיין, יאָסל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Language/Yiddish/Hebrew/Author
Additional song notes:: Anecdote from DVD - Monologn fun Yosl Bernshteyn V0247

Recording

On album:: V0247 (Monologn Fun Yidishe Shraybers: Yosl Birnshteyn (Video) — מאָנאָלאָג פֿון ייִדישע שרײַבערס: יאָסל בירנשטיין (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 36749
Vocal:: Birshteyn, Yosl — בןרשטיין, יאָסל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

A Kiss In Jerusalem (Birshteyn)

Author:: Birshteyn, Yosl — בןרשטיין, יאָסל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Jerusalem/Scenes/Kiss/Wall/Funeral/Bus
Additional song notes:: Anecdote from DVD - Monologn fun Yosl Bernshteyn V0247 (several stories in this chapter)

Recording

On album:: V0247 (Monologn Fun Yidishe Shraybers: Yosl Birnshteyn (Video) — מאָנאָלאָג פֿון ייִדישע שרײַבערס: יאָסל בירנשטיין (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 36750
Vocal:: Birshteyn, Yosl — בןרשטיין, יאָסל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Adrienne Cooper in Memoriam / Podcast

Genre:: Spoken Word / Memorial
Subject:: Adrienne Cooper/Memory/Tribute/Accomplishments/Sorrow/Joy

Recording

On album:: C-035(f) (Adrienne Cooper In Memoram/ Podcast)
Track ID:: 36763
Vocal:: Kalish, John
Vocal:: Shandler, Jeffrey
Vocal:: Goodhertz, Sophie
Vocal:: Noritch, Sam
Vocal:: Romaine, Jenny
Vocal:: Kaminsky, Mark
Vocal:: Weks, Michael
Vocal:: Gordon, Sarah Mina
Vocal:: Svigals, Alicia
Vocal:: London, Frank
Vocal:: Sloan, Judith
Vocal:: Reissa, Eleanor
Vocal:: Rosenthal, Philip
Vocal:: Gutkin, Lisa
Vocal:: Leuchter, Janet
Vocal:: Sokolow, Pete — סוקולוב, פּסח
Vocal:: Mayer, Lisa
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 16:00

The Kabbalists — מקובלים

Author:: Peretz, Yitskhok Leybush — פּרץ, יצחק לײבוש
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Kabala/Poverty/Hunger/Mystery/Spirits/Angels/Melody/Death

Recording

On album:: B-112(a) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/The Chasidic World in Yiddish Literature/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — חסידות אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 36794
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: In di shlekhte tsaytn, halt afile "toyre, di beste skhoyre" oykh fun der…
First line (Yiddish):: אין די שלעכטע צײַטן האַלט אַפֿילו ,,תּורה, די בעסטע סחורה" אויך פֿון דער...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/ Recitation
Length:: 9:41

If Not Even Higher — אויב ניט נאָך העכער

Author:: Peretz, Yitskhok Leybush — פּרץ, יצחק לײבוש
Genre:: LiteraryOrigin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Litvak/Chosid/Rebbe/Slikhos/Spying/Disguise/Woodchopper/
Additional song notes:: Story of Chassidic Rebbe disguising himself as a woodchopper on slichos (his followers beliving that he ascends to heaven at that time) and provides wood and a heating fire for a sick women. The once skeptical Litvak upon hearing that the rebbe ascended to heaven at slikhos replies "if not higher"

Recording

On album:: B-112(a) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/The Chasidic World in Yiddish Literature/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — חסידות אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 36795
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Un der nemirover flegt slikhos tsayt yedn frimorgn nelem vern, farshivden,…
First line (Yiddish):: און דער נעמאָראָווער פֿלעגט סליחות צײַט יעדן פֿרימאָרגן נעלם וואָרן,…
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/ Recitation
Length:: 8:06

Enemies — שונים

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Holocaust
Subject:: Wife/Servant/Yadwiga/Affai/Masha/Duplicity/Return/First Wife

Recording

On album:: B-112(a) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/The Chasidic World in Yiddish Literature/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — חסידות אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 36796
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Etz redn vegn sonim, bay undz in shtot hot getrofn a zakh vos zint di velt...
First line (Yiddish):: עץ רעדן וועגן שונים, בײַ אונדז אין שטאָט האָט געטראָפֿן אַ זאַך וואָס זינט...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/ Recitation
Length:: 9:27

Reb Itshe The Kabbalist — ר'איטשע מקובל

Author:: Opatoshu, Joseph — אָפּאַטבשאַ, יוסף
Genre:: Literary Origin/ Spoken Word
Subject:: Scholar/Non Judgemental/Wanderer/Evangelical/
Additional song notes:: From the novel "In Polish Woods"

Recording

On album:: B-112(a) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/The Chasidic World in Yiddish Literature/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — חסידות אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 36797
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Mordekhe iz geshtanen baym fenster, hot gekukt oyf reb itshe'n…
First line (Yiddish):: מאָרדכע איז געשטאַנען בײַם פֿענסטער, האָט געקוקט אויף רבּ איטשע'ן…
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/ Recitation
Length:: 9:41

The Power of Hasidim — דער כּוח פֿון חסידות

Author:: Eilberg, Yehuda — עלבערג, יהודה
Genre:: Literary Origin/ Spoken Word

Recording

On album:: B-112(a) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/The Chasidic World in Yiddish Literature/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — חסידות אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 36798
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: A misnogid kon zayn a talmud khokhm, kon zayn a goyml khosid, un afile a...
First line (Yiddish):: אַ מתנגד קאַן זײַן אַ תּלמוד חכם, קאָן זײַן אַ גומל חסד, און אַפֿילו אַ…
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Recitation
Length:: 11:17

The Power Of The Word — דער כּוח פֿון וואָרט

Author:: Eilberg, Yehuda — עלבערג, יהודה
Composer:: Eilberg, Yehuda — עלבערג, יהודה
Genre:: Literary Origin/ Spoken Word

Recording

On album:: B-112(a) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/The Chasidic World in Yiddish Literature/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — חסידות אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 36799
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/ Recitation
Length:: 10:28

Pastoral — פּאַסטאָראַל

Author:: Lempel, Bluma — לעמפּעל, בלומע
Genre:: Literary Origin/ Spoken Word
Subject:: Life Cycles/Memories/Seasons/Daily Activities/Premonitions

Recordings

On album:: B-112(c) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Yiddish Women's Prose/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — פֿרויען־פּראָזע אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 36800
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Oktober iz far mir der groylikhster khodesh in yor, in oktober drukt men...
First line (Yiddish):: אָקטאָבער איז פֿאַר מיר דער גרויליכסטער חודש אין יאָר, אין אָקטאָבער דרוקט…
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/ Recitation
Length:: 10:10

On album:: S-048(i) (The Andy Statman Quartet/The Hidden Light)
Track ID:: 38579
Artist:: Statman, Andy
Artist:: Barth, Bruce
Artist:: Lee, Scott
Artist:: Weiner, Bob
Style:: Traditional
Length:: 7:12

A Story Of A Bright Lamp — אַ מעשׂה מיט אַ בליצלאָמפּל

Author:: Mash, Yenta — מאַש, יענטע
Genre:: Literary Origin/ Spoken Word
Subject:: Lamp/Soviets/Confiscation/Accident/Death

Recording

On album:: B-112(c) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Yiddish Women's Prose/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — פֿרויען־פּראָזע אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 36801
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Amol in shtetl, ven m'hot emetsn gerufen mit a fartsoygenen nomen iz er geven…
First line (Yiddish):: אַמאָל אין שטעטל ווען מ'האָט עמעצן גערופֿן מיט אַ פֿאַרצויגענען נאָמען איז…
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/ Recitation
Length:: 9:33

Red Bird — רויט פֿייגעלע

Author:: Rosenfarb, Chava — ראָזענפֿאַרב, חוה
Genre:: Literary Origin/ Spoken Word
Subject:: Holocaust/Memories/Toys/Fire/Childless/Barren/Empty Cradle

Recording

On album:: B-112(c) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Yiddish Women's Prose/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — פֿרויען־פּראָזע אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 36802
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Shoyn dray teg vi es hot nit oyf tsu shneyen, manya shteyt baym fenster…
First line (Yiddish):: שוין דרײַ טעג ווי עס הערט ניט אויף צו שנייען, מאַניע שטייט בײַם פֿענסטער...ן
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word / Recitation
Length:: 9:50

Autobiographical — אויטאָביאָגראָפֿיש

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Memories/Ideals/Loss/Soviet Emigres/Complaints/Culture

Recording

On album:: B-112(c) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Yiddish Women's Prose/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — פֿרויען־פּראָזע אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 36803
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Khotsh der zeyde hot gezogt az men darf nisht forn keyn palestina, vayl az der..
First line (Yiddish):: כאָטש דער זיידע האָט געזאָגט אַז מען דאַרפֿט נישט פֿאָרן קיין פּאַליסטינע...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word / Recitation
Length:: 8:40

Gold — גאָלד

Genre:: Literary Origin/ Spoken Word
Subject:: Survivor Guilt/Holocaust/Solders/Necklace/Memory/Mother

Recording

On album:: B-112(c) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Yiddish Women's Prose/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — פֿרויען־פּראָזע אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 36804
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Sekhtsn yor v'sbronia alt geven farlozn varshe, iber der shtot zenen gelozn…
First line (Yiddish):: זעכצן יאָר וו'סבראָניע אַלט געווען פֿאַרלאָזן וואַרשע, איבער דער שטאָט...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word / Recitation
Length:: 9:43

A Strange People — אַ מאָדנע פֿאָלק

Author:: Kwiatnowski-Pinkhasik, Rivka — קווויאַנטאַווסקי־פּנחסיק, רבֿקה
Genre:: Literary Origin / Spoken Word
Subject:: Languages/Emigres/Israel/Memories/Hebrew/Difficulties

Recording

On album:: B-112(c) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Yiddish Women's Prose/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — פֿרויען־פּראָזע אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 36805
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: A likhtiken frimorgn hot zikh tsushaynt iber di getseltn un baraken fun…
First line (Yiddish):: אַ ליכטיר פֿרימאָרגן האָט זיך צושײַנט איבער די געתעלטן און באַראַקען ...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/ Recitation
Length:: 10:25

Aunt Rose's Livlihood — דער מומע ראָזעס פּרנסה

Author:: Landau, Musya — לאַנדאַו, מוסיע
Genre:: Literary Origin /Spoken Word
Subject:: Actress/Poverty/Costumes/Peddler/Cosmetics/Prostitutes

Recording

On album:: B-112(c) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Yiddish Women's Prose/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — פֿרויען־פּראָזע אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 36806
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Di mume roze iz mit a shpor bisl yor elter gevorn fun ir yunger shvester…
First line (Yiddish):: די מטמע ראָזע איז מיט אַ שפּאָר ביסל יאָר עלטער געווען פֿון איר ינגסטע…
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/ Recitation
Length:: 11:10

Pity On Living Things — צער־בעלי־חיים

Genre:: Literary Origin / Spoken Word / Mystery
Subject:: Ship/Husband/Smuggler/Jailed/Disappearance
Additional song notes:: Tsar-Beli-Khaim was the name of the ship that mysteriously disappeared.

Recording

On album:: B-112(c) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Yiddish Women's Prose/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — פֿרויען־פּראָזע אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 36807
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: A sakh mentshn hobn lib dem yam, forn tsu im, leynen vegn im in bikher,...
First line (Yiddish):: אַ סך מענטשן האָבן ליב דעם ים, פֿאָרן צו אים , ליינען ווען אים אין ביכער,...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/ Recitation
Length:: 9:35

Act I Introduction The Tomashevskys (Video)

Author:: Tilson Thomas, Michael
Genre:: Spoken Word/ Introduction
Subject:: Bessie Tomashevsky/Boris Tomashevsky/Yiddish Theater/Purpose

Recording

On album:: V0258 (Michael Tilson Thomas/ The Thomashefskys/ Music and Memories of the Yiddish Theater (Video))
Track ID:: 36867
Vocal:: Tilson Thomas, Michael
First line:: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome, tonight we're going to tell you a story,...
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

The Bowery (1892)(Video)

Author:

Hoyt, Charles H.

Composer:

Gaunt, Percy

Genre:

Commentary/Spoken Word

Subject:

Bowery/Broadway/Sights/Auction/Bouncer/Barber/Assault

Origin:

Ephemera 1166

Additional song notes:

The song "The Bowery" was not sung. The commentary was used only to introduce the next track.

Related information in folder 1166:

Comments:: 1. Text and History of the song.

Recording

On album:: V0258 (Michael Tilson Thomas/ The Thomashefskys/ Music and Memories of the Yiddish Theater (Video))
Track ID:: 36870
Vocal:: Hensley, Shuler
First line:: Wolf took me to a matinee performance on the bowery, a melodrama…
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Autobiografie Oyf Eyn Fus — אויטאָביאָגרפֿיע אויף איין פֿוס

Author:: Eisenman, Tsvi — אײַזענמאַן, צבֿי
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Experiences/Triumphs/Tradgedies/Poems/Publication/Pride
Additional song notes:: Autobiography On One Foot

Recording

On album:: B-112(b) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Tsvi Eisenman: The Spectacle and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1)
Track ID:: 36936
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Geboyrn bin ikh geven dem tsvansiktn september, 1920 in Varshe. Mayn tate is…
First line (Yiddish):: געבוירן נין איך געווען אין וואַרשע דעם צוואַנסיקסטן סעפּטעמבער אין וואַרשע.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Recitation
Length:: 08:44

Der Spektakl — דער ספּעקטאַקל

Author:: Eisenman, Tsvi — אײַזענמאַן, צבֿי
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Theater/Warsaw/Polish Actors/Memory/Disembodied Spirits
Additional song notes:: The Spectacle

Recording

On album:: B-112(b) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Tsvi Eisenman: The Spectacle and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1)
Track ID:: 36937
First line:: Poylishe mentshn shpiln yidish teater in poyln. Poylishe mentshn lozn zikh in..
First line (Yiddish):: פּוילישע מענטשן שפּילן ייִדיש טעאַטער אין וואַרשע. פּוילישע מענטשן לאָזן זיך..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Recitation
Length:: 04:54

Eybike Yungshaft — אייביקע יונגשאַפֿט

Author:: Eisenman, Tsvi — אײַזענמאַן, צבֿי
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Sevens/Independence/Aging/Death/Stork/Destruction/Distractio
Additional song notes:: Eternal Youth

Recording

On album:: B-112(b) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Tsvi Eisenman: The Spectacle and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1)
Track ID:: 36938
Vocal:: Ben Avraham, Michael — בן־אַבֿרהם, מיכאל
First line:: Sibn teg iz er gegangen, sibn nekht iz er geshlofn, sibn reftelekh broyt gegesn,
First line (Yiddish):: סיבן טעג איז ער געגאַנגן, סיבן נעכט איז ער געשלאָפֿן, סיבן רעפֿטעלעך באויט...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Recitation
Length:: 03:03

Oyf Gensher Beys Oylam — אויפֿן גענשער בית־עולם

Author:: Eisenman, Tsvi — אײַזענמאַן, צבֿי
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Irony
Subject:: Cemetary/Jews Live/Unity/Calm/Equality/Community/Death
Additional song notes:: On the Gensha Cemetary

Recording

On album:: B-112(b) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Tsvi Eisenman: The Spectacle and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1)
Track ID:: 36939
Vocal:: Ben Avraham, Michael — בן־אַבֿרהם, מיכאל
First line:: Vilstu trefn mit yidn, gey oyfn genshe beys oylam, vilstu zayn mit yidn,…
First line (Yiddish):: ווילסטו טרעפֿן מיט ייִדן, גיי אויפֿן גענשע בת־עולם, ווילסטו טרעפֿן מיט ייִדן,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Recitation
Length:: 05:10

Di Lialke Yidn — די ליאַלקע־ייִדן

Author:: Eisenman, Tsvi — אײַזענמאַן, צבֿי
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Jews/Dolls/Accurate/Occupations/Expressionless/Disappeared
Additional song notes:: The Jew Puppets

Recording

On album:: B-112(b) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Tsvi Eisenman: The Spectacle and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1)
Track ID:: 36940
Vocal:: Ben Avraham, Michael — בן־אַבֿרהם, מיכאל
First line:: Poylen iz on yidn, ober oyf eynem fun di bazarn farkoyft men lialkes yidn...
First line (Yiddish):: פּוילן איז אָן ייִדן, אָבער אויף איינעם פֿון די באזאַרן פֿאַרקויפֿט מען...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Recitation
Length:: 04:13

Romantsero — ראָמאַנצעראָ

Author:: Eisenman, Tsvi — אײַזענמאַן, צבֿי
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Romancero

In Shayn Fun Neyr Tomid — אין שײַן פֿון נר־תּמיד

Author:: Eisenman, Tsvi — אײַזענמאַן, צבֿי
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Shiva/Guests/Conversation/Casualty/Candle/Son/War
Additional song notes:: In The Glow of the Neyr Tomid

Recording

On album:: B-112(b) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Tsvi Eisenman: The Spectacle and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1)
Track ID:: 36942
Vocal:: Ben Avraham, Michael — בן־אַבֿרהם, מיכאל
First line:: Zey zenen nokh gezesn shiva, oyfn ershtn blik hot di shtub nisht oysgezen vi a..
First line (Yiddish):: זיי זענען נאָך געזעסן שיבֿעה, אויפֿן ערשטן בליק האָט די שטוב נישט אויסגעזען...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Recitation
Length:: 07:50

Der Anans — דער אַנאָנס

Author:: Eisenman, Tsvi — אײַזענמאַן, צבֿי
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Adverstisement/Personal/Reader/Survior/Bitterness/Reply
Additional song notes:: The Advertisement

Recording

On album:: B-112(b) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Tsvi Eisenman: The Spectacle and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1)
Track ID:: 36943
Vocal:: Ben Avraham, Michael — בן־אַבֿרהם, מיכאל
First line:: A hi geboyrene, an eyngezamene oyszen, ful mit lebns lust, an eyngeordente…
First line (Yiddish):: אַ הי געבוירענע, אַן אײַנגעמענע אויזען, פֿול מיט לעבנס־לוסט, אַן אײַנגעאָרדענט
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Recitation
Length:: 09:00

Tsebrokhene Shoybn — צעבראָכענע שויבן

Author:: Eisenman, Tsvi — אײַזענמאַן, צבֿי
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Woman/Attractive/BarMitvah/Errands/Infatuation/Anger
Additional song notes:: Shattered Panes

Recording

On album:: B-112(b) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Tsvi Eisenman: The Spectacle and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1)
Track ID:: 36944
Vocal:: Ben Avraham, Michael — בן־אַבֿרהם, מיכאל
First line:: Ungehoybn hot es zikh mit dem vos di naye shkhene fun ershtn shtok, froy roza,
First line (Yiddish):: אונגעהויבן האָט עס זיך מיט דעם וואָס די נײַע שכנה פֿון ערשטן שטאָק, פּרוי...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Recitation
Length:: 8:04

Romanza — ראָמאַזאַ

Author:: Eisenman, Tsvi — אײַזענמאַן, צבֿי
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Metaphor
Subject:: He/She/Canes/80 Years/Retirement Home/Loneliness/Yearning
Additional song notes:: Romance

Moyshele Paganini — משהלע פֿאַגאַניני

Author:: Kaganovski, Ephraim — קאַגאַנאָווסקי, עפֿרים
Genre:: Literary Origin/ Spoken Word
Subject:: Musician/Fiddler/Nickname/Poverty/Klezmer/Son/Disillusion

Recording

On album:: B-112(e) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Efraim Kaganowski: Moyshele Paganini and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — אפֿרים קאַגאַניני: ,,משהלע פּאַגאַניני'' און אַנגערע דערציינגען)
Track ID:: 36983
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Dakht zikh nisht lang, ober shoyn zeyer lang az ikh hob zey bagegent mit yorn…
First line (Yiddish):: דאָכט זיך נישט לאַנג, אָבער שוין זייער לאָנג אַש איך האָב זיי באַגעגענט...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin / Spoken Word
Length:: 10:23

Der Kranker — דער קראַנקער

Author:: Kaganovski, Ephraim — קאַגאַנאָווסקי, עפֿרים
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Humorous/Irony
Subject:: Unique Sickness/Doctors/Hospital Theater/Fear of Recovery/
Additional song notes:: The Sick One

Recording

On album:: B-112(e) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Efraim Kaganowski: Moyshele Paganini and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — אפֿרים קאַגאַניני: ,,משהלע פּאַגאַניני'' און אַנגערע דערציינגען)
Track ID:: 36984
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Ir zet, pania, dos iz mayn betl, shoyn tsvey yor, un do iz mayn shenkl,...
First line (Yiddish):: איר זעט, פּאַניאַ, שוין צוויי יאָר, און דאָס איז מײַן שענקל, און דאָ ליגן…
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin / Spoken Word
Length:: 7:55

A Yid Mit Kunst — אַ ייִד מיט קונסט

Author:: Kaganovski, Ephraim — קאַגאַנאָווסקי, עפֿרים
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Porter/Art/Knowledgeable/Critic/Artist Colony/Artists
Additional song notes:: A Jew With Art

Recording

On album:: B-112(e) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Efraim Kaganowski: Moyshele Paganini and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — אפֿרים קאַגאַניני: ,,משהלע פּאַגאַניני'' און אַנגערע דערציינגען)
Track ID:: 36985
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Epes emetser hot mir ibergeshikt a pekl, a groys vogik pekl, vos hot zikh mit…
First line (Yiddish):: עפּעס עמעצער האָט מיר איבערגעשיקט אַ פּעקל, אַ גרויס וואָגל פּעקל,...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin / Spoken Word
Length:: 7:59

Meylekhl Kilke — מיילעכל קילקע

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Teamster/Prosperous/Litvak/Educated/Kadish

Recording

On album:: B-112(e) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Efraim Kaganowski: Moyshele Paganini and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — אפֿרים קאַגאַניני: ,,משהלע פּאַגאַניני'' און אַנגערע דערציינגען)
Track ID:: 36986
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Der kleyner meylekhl kilke iz in gesl geven fun di raykיe furmanes,…
First line (Yiddish):: דער קליינער מיילעכל קילקע איז אין געסל געווען פֿון די רײַכע פֿורמאַנעס,...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin / Spoken Word
Length:: 9:07

Shabos Gest — שבת־געסט

Author:: Kaganovski, Ephraim — קאַגאַנאָווסקי, עפֿרים
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Shabos/Nap/Dreams Compared/Tea/Grudges/Complaints/Gossip/
Additional song notes:: Sabbath Guests

Recording

On album:: B-112(e) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Efraim Kaganowski: Moyshele Paganini and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — אפֿרים קאַגאַניני: ,,משהלע פּאַגאַניני'' און אַנגערע דערציינגען)
Track ID:: 36987
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Yedn shabos nokh halbn tog hobnzikh zikh bavizn der feter gershe mit der mume..
First line (Yiddish):: יעדן שבת נאָך האַלבן טאָג האָבן זיך באַוויזן דער פֿעטער גערשע און די מומע גיטע
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin / Spoken Word
Length:: 7:23

A Shidukh — אַ שידוך

Author:: Kaganovski, Ephraim — קאַגאַנאָווסקי, עפֿרים
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Humorous
Subject:: Sickly Widower and Widow/Matchmaker/Alternating Sicknesses
Additional song notes:: A Match

Recording

On album:: B-112(e) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Efraim Kaganowski: Moyshele Paganini and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — אפֿרים קאַגאַניני: ,,משהלע פּאַגאַניני'' און אַנגערע דערציינגען)
Track ID:: 36988
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Der feter dovidl iz arayngekumen mit zayn grinem shtekn, er hot lang gehust…
First line (Yiddish):: דער פֿעטער דודל איז אַרײַנגעקומען מיט זײַן גרינעם שטעקן, ער האָט לאַנג געהוסט
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin / Spoken Word
Length:: 7:41

Di Bobe Fun Prage — די באָבע פֿון פּראַגע

Author:: Kaganovski, Ephraim — קאַגאַנאָווסקי, עפֿרים
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Grandmother/Aged/Anger/Entrepreneur/Pogroms/Memory/Lonliness
Additional song notes:: The Grandmother From Prague

Recording

On album:: B-112(e) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Efraim Kaganowski: Moyshele Paganini and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1 — אפֿרים קאַגאַניני: ,,משהלע פּאַגאַניני'' און אַנגערע דערציינגען)
Track ID:: 36989
Vocal:: Ben-Avraham, Michael — מיכאל ,בו־אַבֿרהם
First line:: Di bobe braydele hot shoyn zikh fargesn di rekhenung fun ire yorn, un tomer…
First line (Yiddish):: די באָבע ברײַנדעלע האָט שוין זיך לאַנג פֿאַרגעסן דעם רעכענונג פֿון אירע יאָרן,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin / Spoken Word
Length:: 8:51

Di Kleyne Mayses — די קליינע מעשׂיות

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Window/Strangers/Warning/Stories/Kibbutz/Characters/Actress
Additional song notes:: The Short Tales

Recording

On album:: B-112(d) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Yosl Birstein: In The Alleys of Jerusalem/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD4 — מײַסטערס פֿון ייִדעשער פּראָזע\יאַסל בערנשטיין: אין די געסלעך פֿון ירושלים...)
Track ID:: 37024
Vocal:: Ben Avraham, Michael — בן־אַבֿרהם, מיכאל
First line:: Men hot mikh gevornt dem niderikn fenster, az fremder in der gas veln...
First line (Yiddish):: מען האָט מיך געווברענט דעם נידעריקען פֿענסטער, אַז פֿרעמדער אין דער גאַס...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Length:: 11:36

A Tropn Shtilkeyt — אַ טראָפּן שטילקייט

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Companions/Parable/Authenticity/Imitation/Child Sacrifice
Additional song notes:: A Drop of Silence

Recording

On album:: B-112(d) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Yosl Birstein: In The Alleys of Jerusalem/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD4 — מײַסטערס פֿון ייִדעשער פּראָזע\יאַסל בערנשטיין: אין די געסלעך פֿון ירושלים...)
Track ID:: 37025
Vocal:: Ben Avraham, Michael — בן־אַבֿרהם, מיכאל
First line:: Dray zenen farbundn mit der meyse, mayn shokhn markus fun tsvat eliat,…
First line (Yiddish):: דרײַ זענען פֿאַרבונדן מיט דער מעשׂה, מײַן שכן מאַרקוס פֿון צפֿת עליאַט,...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Length:: 9:02

Tsvey Alte Fraynd — צוויי אַלטע פֿרײַנד

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Irony
Subject:: Friends/Yiddish Theater\Israel/Revival/Partner/Ambulance
Additional song notes:: Two Old Friends

Recording

On album:: B-112(d) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Yosl Birstein: In The Alleys of Jerusalem/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD4 — מײַסטערס פֿון ייִדעשער פּראָזע\יאַסל בערנשטיין: אין די געסלעך פֿון ירושלים...)
Track ID:: 37027
Vocal:: Ben Avraham, Michael — בן־אַבֿרהם, מיכאל
First line:: Hirshbeyn hot a zup getun, a ful moyl mit kava, pamelekh aroysgeshlungen,…
First line (Yiddish):: הירשביין האָט אַ זופּ געטון אַ פֿול מויל מיט קאַוואַ, פּאַמעלעך אַרויסגעשלוגן
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Length:: 7:24

Zi Hot Lib Tsu Veynen — זי האָט ליב צו וויינען

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Humor
Subject:: Handwriting/Troubles/Widow/Mourning/Funerals/Weeping
Additional song notes:: She Loved To Cry

Recording

On album:: B-112(d) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Yosl Birstein: In The Alleys of Jerusalem/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD4 — מײַסטערס פֿון ייִדעשער פּראָזע\יאַסל בערנשטיין: אין די געסלעך פֿון ירושלים...)
Track ID:: 37028
Vocal:: Ben Avraham, Michael — בן־אַבֿרהם, מיכאל
First line:: Un dokh hot undz dertsaylt an amolike shkhne fun kiriat givon, ven zi iz gekumen
First line (Yiddish):: און דאָך דאָך האָט אודז דערציילט אַן אַמאָליקע שכנה פֿון קת גיוואָן ווען…
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 4:22

Markus Der Shnayder — מאַרקוס דער שנײַנדער

Author:: Birshteyn, Yosl — בןרשטיין, יאָסל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Irony
Subject:: Tailor/Discontent/Ambition/Author/Book/Writer's Block
Additional song notes:: Markus The Tailor

Recording

On album:: B-112(d) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Yosl Birstein: In The Alleys of Jerusalem/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD4 — מײַסטערס פֿון ייִדעשער פּראָזע\יאַסל בערנשטיין: אין די געסלעך פֿון ירושלים...)
Track ID:: 37029
Vocal:: Ben Avraham, Michael — בן־אַבֿרהם, מיכאל
First line:: Mayn shokhn markus hot in di itstike teg farloyrn dem kheyshek tsu zayn arbet,..
First line (Yiddish):: מײַן שכן מאַקוס האָט אין די איצטעקע צײַטן פֿאַרלוירן דעם חשק צו זײַן אַרבעט,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 5:37

Oyf Di Geselekh Fun Yerusholaim

Author:: Birshteyn, Yosl — בןרשטיין, יאָסל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Vignettes/Metaphors
Subject:: Jerusalem/Mea Shearim/Kapures/Yiddish/Children/Funeral
Additional song notes:: In The Alleys of Jerusalem

Recording

On album:: B-112(d) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Yosl Birstein: In The Alleys of Jerusalem/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD4 — מײַסטערס פֿון ייִדעשער פּראָזע\יאַסל בערנשטיין: אין די געסלעך פֿון ירושלים...)
Track ID:: 37031
Vocal:: Birshteyn, Yosl — בןרשטיין, יאָסל
First line:: Bald nokh di milkume fun di sekx teg, eyder men hot andergesheyd meyelekh un…
First line (Yiddish):: באַלד נאָך די מלחמה פֿון די זעקס טעג, לעבן דעם כּתל מערבֿי, איידער מען...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 26:00

Horizons of Hope (Video)

Genre:: Spoken Word/Historical/Propaganda/Zionist
Subject:: Israel of 1954

Recording

On album:: V0272 (Horizons of Hope (Video) — הורייזנס עו הוף (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 37065
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 20:00

A Bris — אַ ברית

Author:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Ritual/Circumcision/Family/Yiddish/Joy/Covenant/Emotion
Origin:: Ephemra 1329 (text titled "Yiddish")
Additional song notes:: A Circumcision

Recordings

On album:: V0296 (On The Mountaintop With Yiddish (Video) — אויפֿן שפּיץ באַרג מיט ייִדיש (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 37126
Vocal:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Yidish iz toyre, yidish iz sheyn, yidish iz likht, freyd, simkhe, yidish iz chay
First line (Yiddish):: ייִדיש איז תּורה, ייִדיש איז שיין, ייִדיש איז ליכט, פֿרייד, שׂמחה,...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 3:37

On album:: L-029(b)2
Track ID:: 38064
Vocal:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Yidish iz toyre, Yidish is sheyn, likht, freyd, simkhe, Yidish iz chay
First line (Yiddish):: ייִדיש איז תּורה, ייִדיש איז שיין, ליכט, פֿרייד, שׂמחה, ייִדיש איז חי...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 3:37

A Lid Vegn Khelmer Melamed — אַ ליד וועגן כעלמער מלמד

Author:: Friedman, Yankev — פֿרידמאַן, יעקבֿ
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Birds/Children/Khelm/Israel/Fool/
Origin:: Ephemera 1329 (cursive, difficult to read)
Translation:: Ephemera 1329
Additional song notes:: A Poem About The Melamed From Khelm

Recordings

On album:: V0296 (On The Mountaintop With Yiddish (Video) — אויפֿן שפּיץ באַרג מיט ייִדיש (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 37127
First line:: Tsvikelt der khelmer melamed zayn fatsheyle, mit a tsiderdike hant, nemt aroys..
First line (Yiddish):: צוויקעלט דער כלעמער מלמד זײַן פֿאַטשיילע, מיט אַ ציטערדיקע האַנט נעמט…
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 724

On album:: L-029(b)2
Track ID:: 38065
Vocal:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Tsivikelet der chelmer melamud mit zayn fatshele mit a tsiterdike hant,…
First line (Yiddish):: צעוויקלט דער כעלעמער מלמד זײַן פֿאַטשיילע מיט אַ ציטערדיקע האַנט, נעמט ארויס..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 7:24

A Kadishl A Kleynem — אַ קדשל

Author:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Holocaust
Subject:: Condemnation/Silence/Names/Children/Murderers
Origin:: Ephemera 1329
Translation:: Ephemera 1329
Additional song notes:: A Little Kaddish

Recordings

On album:: V0296 (On The Mountaintop With Yiddish (Video) — אויפֿן שפּיץ באַרג מיט ייִדיש (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 37129
First line:: Yiskadal far goldishe, yiskadash far khatskele, shema far sholymishe,…
First line (Yiddish):: יתגדל פֿאַר גאָלדישע, יתקדש פֿאַר חצקעלע, שמה פֿאַר שלמהלע,…
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 5:19

On album:: L-029(b)2
Track ID:: 38066
Vocal:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Yiskadal far Goldishe, Vyiskadash far Khatskele, Shema far Shloymele,...
First line (Yiddish):: יתגדל פֿאַר גאָלדישע, ותקדש פֿאַר כאַצקעלע, שמה פֿאַר שלמהלע, רבּא פֿאַר...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 4:56

Shabos Yom Kipur — שבת יום כּפּוּר

Genre:

Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Protest/Humor/Irony

Subject:

God/Faith/Complaint/Problems/Neighbors/Irony/MemoryNeglect

Origin:

Ephemera 1340

Additional song notes:

Written for Shmuel Dzigan

Related information in folder 1340:

Comments:: 1. 6/27/2014 handwritten text of poem entered in ephemera on June 27, 2014. Written for Shiman Dzigan

Recordings

On album:: V0296 (On The Mountaintop With Yiddish (Video) — אויפֿן שפּיץ באַרג מיט ייִדיש (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 37130
Vocal:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Ir darft mikh, ir vet mir moykhl zayn, ikh darf mit eymitser redn,...l
First line (Yiddish):: איר דאַרפֿט מיך, איר וועט מיר מוחל זײַן, איך דאַרף מיט איימיטצער רעדן,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 6:04

On album:: L-029(b)2
Track ID:: 38067
Vocal:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Ir darf mikh, ir vet mikh moykhl zayn, ikh darf mit emetser redn,…
First line (Yiddish):: איך דאַרף מיך, איר וועט מיך מוחל זײַן, איך דאַרף מיט איימעטצן רעדן,...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 6:05

Robert Weinberg/Monologue

Genre:: Spoken Word

Recordings

On album:: V0296 (On The Mountaintop With Yiddish (Video) — אויפֿן שפּיץ באַרג מיט ייִדיש (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 37131
Vocal:: Weinberg, Robert
First line:: S'iz a groys fargenign far mir shteyn in ayer gegenvart un hobn der gelegenheyt
First line (Yiddish):: ס'איז אַ גרויסער כבר פֿאַר מיר צו שטיין אין אײַער געגענוואַרט און האָבן דער...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monolog
Length:: 10:49

On album:: L-029(b)2
Track ID:: 38068
Vocal:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
First line:: S'iz a groyser koved far mir shteyn in ayer gegenvarg un hobn a gelegenheyt...
First line (Yiddish):: ס'איז אַ גרויסער כּבֿוד פֿאַר מיר שטיין אין אייער געגענוואַרג און האָבן דער..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 10:50

A Griner Politsant — אַ גרינער פּאָליטסאַנט

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Humorous
Subject:: Policeman/Inexperienced/Immigrant/Israel/Soft Hearted
Origin:: Ephemera 1229
Additional song notes:: An Immigrant Policeman

Recordings

On album:: V0296 (On The Mountaintop With Yiddish (Video) — אויפֿן שפּיץ באַרג מיט ייִדיש (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 37133
Vocal:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Shrekt aykh nisht, Ikh gey aykh nisht arestern, ikh bin nisht kayn gazln,
First line (Yiddish):: שרעקט אײַך נישט, איך גיי אײַך נישט אַרעסטירן, איך נין נישט קײַן גזלן,...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin/Humorous
Length:: 19:48

On album:: L-029(b)2
Track ID:: 38070
Vocal:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Shrekt aykh nisht, ikh gey aykh nisht arestirn, ikh bin nisht keyn gazln,…
First line (Yiddish):: שרעקט אײַך נישט, איך גיי אײַך נישט אַרעסטירן, איך בין נישט קיין גזלן,...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 19:48

Mayn Gezang Tsu Amerike — אָ געזאַנג צו אַמעריקע

Author:: Lutski, Avrom — לוצקי, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Praise/America/Example/World/Sustenance/Example
Origin:: Ephemera 1339
Additional song notes:: My Song To America

Recordings

On album:: V0296 (On The Mountaintop With Yiddish (Video) — אויפֿן שפּיץ באַרג מיט ייִדיש (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 37134
Vocal:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Mayn lid un mayn loyb tsu undzer Amerike, tsu undzer president, undzer congress
First line (Yiddish):: מײַן ליד און מײַן לויב צו אונדזער אַמעריקע, צו אונדזער פּרעסידענט,...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 3:16

On album:: L-029(b)2
Track ID:: 38071
Vocal:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Mayn lid un mayn loyb tsu undzer Amerike, tsu undzer president, undzer congres..
First line (Yiddish):: מײַן ליד און מײַן לויב צו אונדזער אַמעריקע, צו אונדזער פּרעזידענט, צו אונזער..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 3:17

Kibbutznik — קיבוצניק

Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word

Recording

On album:: Y-019(b) (Yiddish Humor Vol 4 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 4)
Track ID:: 37788
First line:: nishiom
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 5:49

A Nayer Steier — א נייער שטייער

Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Subject:: New Taxes
Additional song notes:: New Taxes

Recording

On album:: Y-019(b) (Yiddish Humor Vol 4 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 4)
Track ID:: 37789
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 9:51

Shwarze Kershalech — שווארצע קארשעלעך

Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Black Cherries

Recording

On album:: Y-019(b) (Yiddish Humor Vol 4 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 4)
Track ID:: 37790
First line:: shwarze kershalech razmu in greener lovmet in shtien shoyn a maydelekh nemmer
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 2:24

Mein Einikel — מיין אייניקל

Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Subject:: My Grandson/Family
Additional song notes:: My Grandson

Recording

On album:: Y-019(b) (Yiddish Humor Vol 4 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 4)
Track ID:: 37791
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 10:55

"Unzere" In America — "אונזערע" אין אָמריקע

Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Subject:: "Ours" In America

Sheet music:

Folder:: 35
Series:: 1
Arranged for:: Voice/Piano

Recording

On album:: Y-019(b) (Yiddish Humor Vol 4 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 4)
Track ID:: 37792
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 11:55

Untergehereter Telephone Cairo-Rabat-Amman — אונטערגעהעטער טעלפאן קהיר-רבת עמון

Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Subject:: Overheard Conversation
Additional song notes:: Overheard Conversation

Recording

On album:: Y-019(b) (Yiddish Humor Vol 4 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 4)
Track ID:: 37794
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 10:16

Usha Shusa — אושה שושה

Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Subject:: Polictial Satire

Recording

On album:: Y-019(b) (Yiddish Humor Vol 4 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 4)
Track ID:: 37795
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 2:23

Moshe Dayan and Yitzhak Rabin in yar 1998 — משה דיין און יצחק רבין אין יאר 1998

Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Subject:: Polictial Satire

Recording

On album:: Y-019(c) (Yiddish Humor Vol 5 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 5)
Track ID:: 37796
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Artist:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Bufetnik — בופֿעטניק

Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Subject:: Polictial Satire

Recording

On album:: Y-019(c) (Yiddish Humor Vol 5 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 5)
Track ID:: 37839
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Nem Dir Nisht Sum Hartzen — נעם דיר נישט צום הארצן

Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Subject:: Polictial Satire
Additional song notes:: take it easy

Recording

On album:: Y-019(c) (Yiddish Humor Vol 5 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 5)
Track ID:: 37840
Artist:: Witler, Ben Tsion — װיטלער, בּן ציון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Der Nacht Werchter — דער נאכט וועכאער

Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Subject:: Polictial Satire
Additional song notes:: The night watch

Yidn! Ich Ken nisht shlofn — יידין! כ'קען נישט שלאפן

Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Subject:: Polictial Satire
Additional song notes:: yidn! I cannot sleep

Recording

On album:: Y-019(c) (Yiddish Humor Vol 5 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 5)
Track ID:: 37842
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Paris-Tel Aviv — פאריז-תל אביב

Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Subject:: Polictial Satire

Recording

On album:: Y-019(c) (Yiddish Humor Vol 5 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 5)
Track ID:: 37844
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Lomir Trinken Ale A-Lechaim — לאמיר טרינקען אלע א־לחיים

Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Subject:: Drinking
Additional song notes:: Let's all drink ale! A toast! To life!

Recording

On album:: Y-019(c) (Yiddish Humor Vol 5 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 5)
Track ID:: 37845
Artist:: Perlman, Max — פּערלמאַן, מאַקס
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Shwer Zu Zein A Kabzen — שווער צו זיין א קבצן

Genre:: Comedy/Spoken Word
Subject:: Polictial Satire
Additional song notes:: it's difficult to be a beggar

Recording

On album:: Y-019(c) (Yiddish Humor Vol 5 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 5)
Track ID:: 37843
Artist:: Bodo, Yakov — בודו, יעקבֿ
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Dos Kelbl (Mendele) — דאָס קעלבל (מענדעלע)

Author:: Mendele Mokher Sforim — מענדעלע מוכר ספֿרים
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Calf/Children
Additional song notes:: The Calf

Recordings

On album:: P-038(a) (Pressburger Klezmer Band [LAJV])
Track ID:: 32542
Artist:: Pressburger Klezmer Band — פּ ק בּ
Violin/Arranger:: Werner, Andrej
Clarinet:: Lago, Miro
Viola:: Alexander, Daniel
Piano/Sampler:: Suska, Pavol
Zbor/Double Bass:: Alexander, Samo
Drums:: Oros, Martin
Style:: Instrumental/Klezmer
Length:: 3:29

On album:: H-032(a) (Jiddische Und Deutsche Lieder/ Anna Hurkmans Gesang/ Ermanno Testi Klavier)
Track ID:: 39131
First line:: Oyfn furl ligt a kelbl, ligt gebunden mit a shtrik,
First line (Yiddish):: אױפֿן פֿורל ליגט דאָס קעלבל, ליגט געבונדן מיט אַ שטריק,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Concert
Length:: 2:36

On album:: S-041(a) (Oksana Sowiak Yiddish Songs)
Track ID:: 3957
Vocal:: Sowiak, Oksana
Guitar:: Stingl, Anton
First line:: Oyfn furl ligt dos kelbl, ligt gebunden mit a shtrik,
First line (Yiddish):: אױפֿן פֿורל ליגט דאָס קעלבל, ליגט געבונדן מיט אַ שטריק,
Track comment:: Song introduced in 1940 revival of Yiddish musical "Esterl".
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Concert

On album:: R-017(a) (Readings of Yiddish Literature Itzhak Rothblum — יצחק ראָטבלום פֿאָרלעזונגען און רעציטאַציעס פֿון דער ייִדישער...)
Track ID:: 4059
Author:: Mendele Mokher Sforim — מענדעלע מוכר ספֿרים
Artist:: Rothblum, Itskhak — ראָטבלום, יצחק
First line:: Vinter, a mol, gants fri, az ikh bin gelign...
First line (Yiddish):: װינטער, אַ מאָל, גאַנץ פֿרי, אַז איך בין געליגן...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Alman — דער אלמן

Author:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Genre:: Spoken Word/Humor/Skit/
Subject:: Widower/ Widow/Gravestones/Suicide/Specifications/Cemetary/
Additional song notes:: The Widower

Recording

On album:: D-005(e) (Lustig Un Lebedik Freylekh (Lebedov) Dzigan's Lakh Oytser — לוסטיג און לעבעדיק דזשיגאַנס לאַך אױצר)
Track ID:: 3039
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
First line:: Reb Mandelboym(2), vos far a matsave hot ir batshtelt, vos far a matsave,…
First line (Yiddish):: רבּ מאַנדלבוים(2), וואָס פֿאַר אַ מצבֿה האָט איר באַשטעלט, וואַס פֿאַר אַ מצבֿה,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humourous
Length:: 11:05

Shikhelekh (Lee) — שיכעלעך (לי)

Author:: Lee, Malke — לי, מלכּה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Holocaust
Subject:: Shoes/Sorted/Cut/Dried/Rags/Patches/Bloody/Children
Origin:: Ephemera 1329
Additional song notes:: Little Shoes

Recording

On album:: L-029(b)2
Track ID:: 37128
Vocal:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Shikhelekh sortirte, shikhelekh farshnitinete, shikhelekh mit tsingen farshniten
First line (Yiddish):: שיכעלעך סאָרטירטע, שיכעלעך פֿאַשניטענע, שיכעלעך מיט צינגען פֿאַשניטענע,...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin
Length:: 3:56

Robert Weiner Monologue

Author:: Weiner, Robert
Genre:: Spoken Word

Chaim Ayzik Aher Gey — חיים אײַזיק אַהער גיי

Genre:: Humorous/Vaudeville/Theater/Spoken Word
Subject:: Husband/Poverty/Wife's Complaints/Dream/Wife's Funeral

Recording

On album:: 072i (Silberbush, Samuel & Wachtel, Sadie/ Der Pedler/ Khaym Ayzik Aher Geyn)
Track ID:: 38372
Vocal:: Silverbush, Sam
Vocal:: Wachtel, Sadie
First line:: Ay lu lu, shlof mayn feygele, shlof, ay di lulu, lulu, shlof mayn tayer kind...
First line (Yiddish):: אײַ לולו לולו, שלאָף מײַן פֿייגעלע, שלאָף, אײַ די לולות לולו, שלאָף מײַן טײַער
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Humorous/Vaudeville/Spoken Word/Theater
Length:: 2:59

Musuem of History of Polish Jews

Genre:: Historical/Spoken Word/Documentary
Subject:: Musuem/Polish Jews/History/Memory/Education

Recording

On album:: V0299 (Musuem of the History of Polish Jews (Video))
Track ID:: 38546
Commentary and Narration:: Kirshenblatt-Gimlett, Barbara
Commentary:: Wiesel, Elie
Remarks:: Lau, Rabbi Israel Mayer — לאו, ישראל מאיר
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Toybn Baym Brunem — טויבן בײַם ברונעם

Author:: Ben Chaim-Basman, Rivke — בן־חיים-באָסמאַן רבקה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Doves at the Well This title may refer to a group of related poems.

Recording

On album:: B-127(a) (Rivke Bosman Ben Chaim Leynt Ire Lider — רבקה באָסמאַן בן חיים ליינט אירע לידער)
Track ID:: 42150

Bleter Fun Vegn — בלעטער פֿון וועגן

Author:: Ben Chaim-Basman, Rivke — בן־חיים-באָסמאַן רבקה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Leaves on the Roads This title may refer to a group of related poems.

Recording

On album:: B-127(a) (Rivke Bosman Ben Chaim Leynt Ire Lider — רבקה באָסמאַן בן חיים ליינט אירע לידער)
Track ID:: 42151

Likhtike Shteyner — ליכטיקער שטיינער

Author:: Ben Chaim-Basman, Rivke — בן־חיים-באָסמאַן רבקה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Bright Stones This title may refer to a group of related poems.

Recording

On album:: B-127(a) (Rivke Bosman Ben Chaim Leynt Ire Lider — רבקה באָסמאַן בן חיים ליינט אירע לידער)
Track ID:: 42152

Tseshatene Kreln — צעשאַטענע קרעלן

Author:: Ben Chaim-Basman, Rivke — בן־חיים-באָסמאַן רבקה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Scattered Pearls This title may relate to a group of related poems.

Recording

On album:: B-127(a) (Rivke Bosman Ben Chaim Leynt Ire Lider — רבקה באָסמאַן בן חיים ליינט אירע לידער)
Track ID:: 42153

Unrirn Di Tsayt — אָנרירן די צײַט

Author:: Ben Chaim-Basman, Rivke — בן־חיים-באָסמאַן רבקה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Disturb The Time This title may refer to a group of related poems.

Recording

On album:: B-127(a) (Rivke Bosman Ben Chaim Leynt Ire Lider — רבקה באָסמאַן בן חיים ליינט אירע לידער)
Track ID:: 42154

Di Shtilkayt Brent — די שטילקײַט סרענט

Author:: Ben Chaim-Basman, Rivke — בן־חיים-באָסמאַן רבקה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: The Silence Burns This title may refer to a group of related poems.

Recording

On album:: B-127(a) (Rivke Bosman Ben Chaim Leynt Ire Lider — רבקה באָסמאַן בן חיים ליינט אירע לידער)
Track ID:: 42155

Di Draytstnte Sho — די דרײַצענטע שעה

Author:: Ben Chaim-Basman, Rivke — בן־חיים-באָסמאַן רבקה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: The Thirteenth Hour This title may refer to a group of related poems.

Recording

On album:: B-127(a) (Rivke Bosman Ben Chaim Leynt Ire Lider — רבקה באָסמאַן בן חיים ליינט אירע לידער)
Track ID:: 42157

Oyf a Strune Fun Regn — אויף אַ סטרונע פֿון רעגן

Author:: Ben Chaim-Basman, Rivke — בן־חיים-באָסמאַן רבקה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Upon the String of a Rain This title may refer to a group of related poems.

Recording

On album:: B-127(a) (Rivke Bosman Ben Chaim Leynt Ire Lider — רבקה באָסמאַן בן חיים ליינט אירע לידער)
Track ID:: 42158

Lekoved Ikh Un Du — לכּבֿוד איך און דו

Author:: Ben Chaim-Basman, Rivke — בן־חיים-באָסמאַן רבקה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: In Honor Of Me and You This title may refer to a group of related poems.

Recording

On album:: B-127(a) (Rivke Bosman Ben Chaim Leynt Ire Lider — רבקה באָסמאַן בן חיים ליינט אירע לידער)
Track ID:: 42159

Der Farnakht — דער פֿאַרנאַכט

Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Fatigue/Evening
Additional song notes:: Evening

Recording

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22606
Vocal:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Vocal/English Adaption:: Levitan, Seymour
First line:: Der farnakht iz azoy mid vi ikh aleyn, tsu fun di zorgn...
First line:: דער פֿאַרנאַכט איז אַזױ מיד װי איך אַלײן, צו פֿון זאָאָגן פֿון דער...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:48

Di Erd Gedenkt — די ערד געדענקט

Author:: Ben Chaim-Basman, Rivke — בן־חיים-באָסמאַן רבקה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: The Earth Remembers This title may refer to a group of related poems.

Recording

On album:: B-127(a) (Rivke Bosman Ben Chaim Leynt Ire Lider — רבקה באָסמאַן בן חיים ליינט אירע לידער)
Track ID:: 42156

Awakening (Babel)

Author:: Babel, Isaac
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Translation
Subject:: Father/Son/Adolescence/Music/Rebellion/Independence/Violin/
Additional song notes:: also:"Without Talent/Odessa/Swimming/Role Model/Child Author/Nature

Recording

On album:: B-158(a) (Stories by Isaac Babel read by Joseph Wiseman)
Track ID:: 39003
Vocal:: Wiseman, Joseph
English Adaptation:: Constantine, Peter
First line:: All the folks in our circle, brokers, shopkeepers, clerks in banks…
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 18.20

Gedali

Author:: Babel, Isaac
Genre:: Literary Origin/ Spoken Word/ Translation
Subject:: Memory/Grandfather/Grandmother/Sabbath/Revolution/Prayer
Additional song notes:: Also: Counter Revolution/Poles/Anti Semites/Contradiction See Babel p 227 PG3476.B2 A23 2002

Recording

On album:: B-158(a) (Stories by Isaac Babel read by Joseph Wiseman)
Track ID:: 39006
Vocal:: Wiseman, Joseph
English Adaptation:: Morrison, Walter
English Adaption:: Hayward, Max
First line:: On sabbath eves I'm oppressed by the dense melancholy of memories,…
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 8:08

Marc Chagall (Video)

Genre:: Documentary/Spoken Word/Art/Biographical
Subject:: Marc Chagall/Art/

Recording

On album:: V0300 (Marc Chagall (Video))
Track ID:: 39169
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 50:00

Khadashot Shnat Ta'sha's (Tav Shin Samakh) — חדשות שנת תש"ס

Genre:: Humorous/Spoken Word/Joke
Subject:: Purim

Recording

On album:: P-022(b) (Purim Shpil 2000 Yidish — פּורים שפּיל 2000 ייִדיש)
Track ID:: 39194
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Humor/Spoken Word
Length:: 6:03

Shoshanat Yaakov (Purim) — שושנת יעקב (פּורים)

Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word/Jokes
Subject:: Purim/New Immigrant

Recording

On album:: P-022(b) (Purim Shpil 2000 Yidish — פּורים שפּיל 2000 ייִדיש)
Track ID:: 39198
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Humor/Spoken Word
Length:: 3:20

HaRabi Hameraked — הרבי המרקד

Genre:: Humor/Comedy/Spoken Word
Subject:: Purim/Telephone/Ahasuerus/Budget/Fax/Ccommunication/

Recording

On album:: P-022(b) (Purim Shpil 2000 Yidish — פּורים שפּיל 2000 ייִדיש)
Track ID:: 39201
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Humor/Spoken Word
Length:: 4:51

Der Khelmer Rov — דער כעלעמער רבֿ

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Monologue

Recording

On album:: D-005(b) (Sh. Dzigan 1977 — ש. דזשיגען)
Track ID:: 3177
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
First line:: Der khelemer rov iz gezesen iber a seyfer, gekneytsht dem shtern, geglet zayn…
First line (Yiddish):: דער כעלעמער רבֿ איז געזעסען איבער אַ ספֿר, געקנייטשט דעם שטערן, געגלעט זײַנע
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologue
Length:: 8:32

Forefather

Author:

Marmer, Jake

Genre:

Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Subject:

Direction/Guilt/Reflection/Introspection/Inheritance

Origin:

Ephemera 1379

Related information in folder 1379:

Comments:: 1. 3/19/2014 Text of poem by Jake Marmer published in The New Vilna Review and posted on the internet and entered in Ephemera on March 19, 2014

Recording

On album:: M-132(a) (Jake Marmer / Hermeneutic Stomp)
Track ID:: 39652
Vocal:: Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:: Wall, Greg
Trumpet:: London, Frank
Keys:: Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:: Maoz, Eyal
First line:: Directions were precise (who else could spin your compass like a roulette)…

Facts

Author:: Marmer, Jake
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Poetry
Subject:: Introspection/Existence/Sleeplessness/Hardass
Origin:: Alb M-132(a)

Recording

On album:: M-132(a) (Jake Marmer / Hermeneutic Stomp)
Track ID:: 39651
Vocal:: Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:: Wall, Greg
Trumpet:: London, Frank
Keys:: Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:: Maoz, Eyal
First line:: With many crumbs and a puddle of someone else's drink, the Starbucks table…
Language:: English
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Bathhouse of Dreams

Author:: Marmer, Jake
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Poetry
Subject:: Grecian Bathhouse/Washing/Dreams/Hellinism/Assimilation/
Origin:: Marmer 14

Recording

On album:: M-132(a) (Jake Marmer / Hermeneutic Stomp)
Track ID:: 39653
Vocal:: Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:: Wall, Greg
Trumpet:: London, Frank
Keys:: Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:: Maoz, Eyal
First line:: In Aphrodite's bathhouse in Akko, Proklos ben Plosphos asked Rav Gamliel:…
Language:: English
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Mishnah of Visions

Author:: Marmer, Jake
Genre:: Literaary origin/Spoken Word/Poetry
Subject:: Sightless/Smell/Truth/Soul/Lies/Vision
Origin:: Marmer 11

Recording

On album:: M-132(a) (Jake Marmer / Hermeneutic Stomp)
Track ID:: 39654
Vocal:: Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:: Wall, Greg
Trumpet:: London, Frank
Keys:: Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:: Maoz, Eyal
First line:: Rav Iver was born blind, but got around having exquisitely sharpened his sense..
Language:: English
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Rachmones Blues

Author:: Marmer, Jake
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Poetry
Subject:: Mercy/CompassonTruck/Vegetables
Origin:: Marmer 80

Recording

On album:: M-132(a) (Jake Marmer / Hermeneutic Stomp)
Track ID:: 39656
Vocal:: Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:: Wall, Greg
Trumpet:: London, Frank
Keys:: Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:: Maoz, Eyal
First line:: I know a little woman, she got a truck full of rachmones, yeah, a truck full…
Language:: English
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Mishnah of Lonliness

Author:: Marmer, Jake
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Poetry
Subject:: Loneliness/Commentary/Hillel/Shammai/Nudniks/God's Absence
Origin:: Marmer 17

Recording

On album:: M-132(a) (Jake Marmer / Hermeneutic Stomp)
Track ID:: 39657
Vocal:: Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:: Wall, Greg
Trumpet:: London, Frank
Keys:: Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:: Maoz, Eyal
First line:: There are three types of lonliness in the world: green red and purple.
Language:: English
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Mishnah of Silence

Author:: Marmer, Jake
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Silence/Laws/ommentary/Expression/Minyan/Inarticulation
Origin:: Marmer 18

Root-Note Nigun

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Stick Figure/Abstraction/Painting/Existence/Imagination
Origin:: Album M-132(a)

Recording

On album:: M-123(a) (Miracles Made/ Hits Collection — נסים גרמה / אוסף להימים)
Track ID:: 39658
Vocal:: Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:: Wall, Greg
Trumpet:: London, Frank
Keys:: Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:: Maoz, Eyal
First line:: This nigun is about a stick figure and the wind over canvas that bared it.
Language:: English
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word

The Laws of Dream-Cooking

Author:: Marmer, Jake
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Dream/2000 Years/History/Individuals/Solidiity/Zionist
Origin:: Marmer 13
Additional song notes:: After Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 145B

Winter Sketch

Author:: Marmer, Jake
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Mood/Song/Guitar Strings/Notes/
Origin:: Marmer 51

Recording

On album:: M-123(a) (Miracles Made/ Hits Collection — נסים גרמה / אוסף להימים)
Track ID:: 39661
Vocal:: Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:: Wall, Greg
Trumpet:: London, Frank
Keys:: Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:: Maoz, Eyal
First line:: Mood ripples like a puddle with a building inside, windows popping widening…
Language:: English
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Dealings

Author:: Marmer, Jake
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Snow/New York/Kiev/Cards/Atlantic City/Reading
Origin:: Marmer 45

Recording

On album:: M-123(a) (Miracles Made/ Hits Collection — נסים גרמה / אוסף להימים)
Track ID:: 39662
Vocal:: Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:: Wall, Greg
Trumpet:: London, Frank
Keys:: Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:: Maoz, Eyal
First line:: Every few years when it snows really hard in New York someone inevitably…
Language:: English
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Amphibian Night

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Text Not Available

Recording

On album:: M-123(a) (Miracles Made/ Hits Collection — נסים גרמה / אוסף להימים)
Track ID:: 39663
Vocal:: Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:: Wall, Greg
Trumpet:: London, Frank
Keys:: Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:: Maoz, Eyal
First line:: Needle, threads, nothingness, tons of it, transparence, slices of ice thrust…
Language:: English
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Length:: 3:55

3: A.M. Nigun

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Text Not Available

Recording

On album:: M-123(a) (Miracles Made/ Hits Collection — נסים גרמה / אוסף להימים)
Track ID:: 39664
Vocal:: Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:: Wall, Greg
Trumpet:: London, Frank
Keys:: Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:: Maoz, Eyal
First line:: She sang, as if looking through the magnifying glass, lullabies every…
Language:: English
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Length:: 3:16

3: A.M. Nigun (alt take)

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Text Not Available

Recording

On album:: M-123(a) (Miracles Made/ Hits Collection — נסים גרמה / אוסף להימים)
Track ID:: 39665
Vocal:: Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:: Wall, Greg
Trumpet:: London, Frank
Keys:: Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:: Maoz, Eyal
First line:: She sang, as if looking through the magnifying glass, lullabies every…
Language:: English
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Length:: 2:45

Mishnah of Lonliness (alt take)

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Text Not Available

Rakhnomes Blues

Author:: Marmer, Jake
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Mercey/Compassion/Truck/Vegetables/Beneficiary
Origin:: Marmer 80

The Rabbi's Son

Author:: Babel, Isaac
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Translation
Subject:: Memory/Sabbath/Prayer/Revolution/Violence, Contradiction
Translation:: Babel p331 PG3476.B2 A23 2002

Recording

On album:: B-158(a) (Stories by Isaac Babel read by Joseph Wiseman)
Track ID:: 39726
Vocal:: Wiseman, Joseph
English Adaptation:: Constantine, Peter
First line:: Do You remember Zhitomir, Vasily? Do you remember the River Teterev, Vasily,…
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 5:56

You Must Know Everything

Also known as:: At Granmother's
Author:: Babel, Isaac
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Translation
Subject:: Knowledge/Grandmother/Memory/Food/Learning/Music/Study/Anger
Translation:: See Babel p 43 PG3476.B2 A23 2002
Additional song notes:: See "You Must Know Everything" Babel See Babel p 43 PG3476.B2 A23 2002 Published under the title "At Grandmother's"

Recording

On album:: B-158(a) (Stories by Isaac Babel read by Joseph Wiseman)
Track ID:: 39727
Vocal:: Wiseman, Joseph
English Adaptation:: Morrison, Walter
English Adaption:: Hayward, Max
First line:: On Saturday's I always came home late after my six lessons at school,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 15.25

Shabos Nakhamu

Author:: Babel, Isaac
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Translation
Subject:: Shabos/Food/Poverty/Wife/Curses/Rabbi/Horse/Hunger
Translation:: See Babel p 84 PG3476.B2 A23 2002
Additional song notes:: The Shabos of Comfort Also Trickery/Other World/Fools/Inkeeper See Babel p 84 PG3476.B2 A23 2002

Recording

On album:: B-158(a) (Stories by Isaac Babel read by Joseph Wiseman)
Track ID:: 39728
Vocal:: Wiseman, Joseph
English Adaptation:: Morrison, Walter
English Adaption:: Hayward, Max
First line:: The morning goes by, the evening comes and it's the fifth day of the week,…
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 15:04

The Cemetary at Kozin

Author:: Babel, Isaac
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Translation
Subject:: Cemetary/Shtetl/Volhynia/Gravestones/Images/Death
Translation:: See Babel p 259 PG3476.B2 A23 2002

Recording

On album:: B-158(a) (Stories by Isaac Babel read by Joseph Wiseman)
Track ID:: 39729
Vocal:: Wiseman, Joseph
English Adaptation:: Morrison, Walter
English Adaption:: Hayward, Max
First line:: The cemetary of a little Jewish town, Assyria, all of the mysterious stagnation
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:57

Fun Kosev Biz Kitev (Introduction & Song)

Genre:: Spoken Word

Recordings

On album:: M-133(a) (Barbara Moskow / Disc 1)
Track ID:: 39952
Vocal:: Moskow, Barbara — מאָסקאָ, באַרבאַראַ
Piano:: Cohen, Rose Jarvis
First line:: Fun kosev biz kitev iz a brikele faranen, vu der bal shem,
First line (English & Yiddish):: פֿון קאָסאָװ ביז קיטעװ איז אַ בריקעלע פֿאַראַנען, װוּ דער בּעל־שם,
Language:: English & Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Folk/Concert
Length:: 2:07

On album:: M-133(a) (Barbara Moskow / Disc 1)
Track ID:: 39953
Vocal:: Moskow, Barbara — מאָסקאָ, באַרבאַראַ
Piano:: Cohen, Rose Jarvis
First line:: Fun kosev biz kitev iz a brikele faranen, vu der bal shem,
First line (English & Yiddish):: פֿון קאָסאָװ ביז קיטעװ איז אַ בריקעלע פֿאַראַנען, װוּ דער בּעל־שם,
Language:: English & Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Folk Concert
Length:: 0:19

Yerusholaim (Introduction) — ירושלים (אַרײַנפֿיר)

Genre:: Spoken Word

Oyfn Oyvn Zitst A Meydl (Introduction & Song) — אױפֿן אױװן זיצט אַ מײדל ( אַרײַנפֿיר און ליד)

Genre:: Spoken Word

Recordings

On album:: M-133(a) (Barbara Moskow / Disc 1)
Track ID:: 40070
Vocal:: Moskow, Barbara — מאָסקאָ, באַרבאַראַ
Piano:: Cohen, Rose Jarvis
First line:: Oyfn oyvn zitst a meydl, tumba tumba tumba, ba, un zi neyt a vayse kleydl,
First line (English & Yiddish):: אויפֿן אויוון זיצט אַ מיידל, טומבאַ טומבאַ טומבאַ באַ, און זי נייט אַ ווײַסע קליידל,
Language:: English & Yiddish
Style:: Folk/Concert
Length:: 2:10

On album:: M-133(a) (Barbara Moskow / Disc 1)
Track ID:: 40069
Vocal:: Moskow, Barbara — מאָסקאָ, באַרבאַראַ
Piano:: Cohen, Rose Jarvis
First line:: Oyfn oyvn zitst a meydl, tumba tumba tumba, ba, un zi neyt a vayse kleydl,
First line (English & Yiddish):: אויפֿן אויוון זיצט אַ מיידל, טומבאַ טומבאַ טומבאַ באַ, און זי נייט אַ ווײַסע קליידל,
Language:: English & Yiddish
Length:: 0:16

Vu Ahin Zol Ikh Geyn? (Introduction) — װוּ אַהין זאָל איך גײן? (אַרײַנפֿיר)

Genre:: Spoken Word

Recording

On album:: M-133(c) (Barbara Moskow / Disc 3)
Track ID:: 40289
ocal:: Moskow, Barbara — מאָסקאָ, באַרבאַראַ
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:44

Babi Yar (Introduction) — בּאַבּי יאַר (אַרײַנפֿיר)

Genre:: Spoken Word

Recording

On album:: M-133(c) (Barbara Moskow / Disc 3)
Track ID:: 40291
Vocal:: Moskow, Barbara — מאָסקאָ, באַרבאַראַ
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:02

Der Psikhiater (The Pyschiatrist) — דער פּסיכעאַטער

Author:: Nudelman, Moshe — נודעלמאַן, משה
Genre:: Spoken Word/Humorous/Skit
Subject:: Analysis/tomatoes/sexuality/Herring/Sadism/Freud/Visit/Food

Recording

On album:: D-005(d) (The Last Laugh Of Shimon Dzigan — דאָס לעצטי געלעכטער פֿון שמיון דזשיגאַן)
Track ID:: 3287
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Feldman, Karol — פֿעלדמאַן, קאַראָל
First line:: Yo, ikh layn fun ayere oygn az ir hot shoyn lang gedarft tsukumen tsu mir,…
First line (Yiddish):: יאָ, איך ליין פֿון אײַערע אויגן אַזאיר האָט שוין לאַנג געדאַפֿט צוקומען צו ציר
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous/Skit
Length:: 11:35

Chaim Grade Yiddish Literature

Author:: Grade, Chaim — גראַגע, חײם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Recording

On album:: V0328 (Chaim Grade: Significane of Modern Yiddish Literature (Video))
Track ID:: 41173
First line:: Vos hot der yidisher literature baygetun…
First line (Yiddish):: וואָד האָט דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור בײַגעטאָן...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 9:18

Above & Beyond

Genre:: Spoken Word/Documentary
Subject:: Israel/Aviation/Air Force/Pilots/Importance/1948 War/

Above and Beyond

Author:: Spielberg, Nancy
Genre:: Documentary/Spoken Word
Subject:: Israel/Pilots/Air Force/Importance/Independence/1948 War

Lost Town (Video)

Genre:: History/Holocaust/Place/Spoken Word
Subject:: Trochenbrod

Recordings

On album:: V0334 (An Afternoon of Yiddish Song and Poetry/ Cantor Roslyn Barak/ Poetry Reading by Rabbi Edward Zerin (Video))
Track ID:: 41478
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

On album:: V0336 (Lost Town (Video))
Track ID:: 41483
Vocal:: Bendavid-Val, Avrom
First line:: My father, I've been trying to get closer to my father, all my life…
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Documentary
Length:: 90:00

Lost Town

Author:: Bendavid-Val, Avrom
Genre:: Place/Documentary/Spoken Word
Subject:: Trochenbrod/Ukraine/Survivors/Memory

Yiddish World Remembered (Video)

Genre:: Documentry/Spoken Word/History
Subject:: Shtetl/Memory/Daily Life

Recording

On album:: V0216 (A Yiddish World Remembered (Video))
Track ID:: 41583
Narrator:: Gould, Elliot
Producer:: Goldberg, Andrew
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Documentary
Length:: 120:00

Mira Epstein — מיראָ עפשטײַן

Author:: Epstein, Mira — עפּשטײַן, מיראַ
Genre:: Spoken Word
Subject:: Biography
Additional song notes:: Speaks in Russian

Recording

On album:: F-085(a) (Molly Freedman: Oral Histories)
Track ID:: 41585
Vocal:: Epstein, Mira — עפּשטײַן, מיראַ
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Russian
Style:: Spoken Word/Field Recording

Etka Zaretsky — עטקאַ זאַרעטסקי

Author:: Zaretsky, Etka — זאָרעטסקי, עטקע
Genre:: Spoken Word
Subject:: Biography

Recording

On album:: F-085(a) (Molly Freedman: Oral Histories)
Track ID:: 41586
Vocal:: Zaretsky, Etka — זאָרעטסקי, עטקע
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Field Recording

Anna Shvartzman — אַנע שוואַרטצמאָן

Author:: Shvartzman, Anna — שוואַרטצמאַן, אַנאַ
Genre:: Spoken Word
Subject:: Biography

Recording

On album:: F-085(a) (Molly Freedman: Oral Histories)
Track ID:: 41588
Vocal:: Shvartzman, Anna — שוואַרטצמאַן, אַנאַ
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Field Recoring

Opening Remarks (What's Not To Like-V0290)

Genre:: Spoken Word
Subject:: Program
Additional song notes:: November 11, 2012

Recording

On album:: V0290 (What's Not To Like (Nov 11, 2012): A Yiddish Songfest (Video) [Not Separated)
Track ID:: 41797
Host:: Zucker, Sheva — זוקער, שבֿע
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Lomir Zhe Zingen (Manger) — לאָמיר זשע זינגען (מאַנגער)

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Poetry/The Familiar/Beggers/Mothers/Maidservants/Warmth/Cold
Origin:: C-060(a)/Manger (Intro)/Manger Illust/ Sh Sh 441/Alb/C-060(a)
Translation:: Manger (Intro)/Manger Illust/ Sh Sh 441/Alb/C-060(a)
Additional song notes:: Let Us Sing

Recording

On album:: M-003(a) (Itzik Manger Read by the Author — איציק מאַנגער לײנט איציק מאַנגער)
Track ID:: 9350
Vocal:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
First line:: Lomir zhe zingen, poshet un prost, fun alts, vos iz heymish lib un tayer
First line (Yiddish):: לאָמיר זשה זינגען, פּשוט און פּראָסט, פֿון אַלץ, װאָס איז הײמיש...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Zev Godinger

Genre:: Spoken Word/Yiddish
Transliteration:: Album Liner Notes Z-014(d)

Recordings

On album:: Z-014(d) (Carpati: 50 miles, 50 years featuring Yale Strom and Zmiros)
Track ID:: 24834
Spoken Word:: Godinger, Zev
First line:: Di yidishe shtetlekh zenen..yidishe shtiklekh..s'iz geven. a tuba..esn trinken
First line (Yiddish):: די ייִדישע שטעטלעך זענען..ייִדדישע שטיקלעך..ס'איז געווען אַ טובאַ..עסן, טרינקען,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:20

On album:: Z-014(d) (Carpati: 50 miles, 50 years featuring Yale Strom and Zmiros)
Track ID:: 42049
Spooken Word:: Godinger, Zev
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:09

On album:: Z-014(d) (Carpati: 50 miles, 50 years featuring Yale Strom and Zmiros)
Track ID:: 42050
Spoken Word:: Godinger, Zev
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:38

On album:: Z-014(d) (Carpati: 50 miles, 50 years featuring Yale Strom and Zmiros)
Track ID:: 42051
Spoken Word:: Godinger, Zev
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:11

Josef Lakotos

Genre:: Spoken Word/Hungarian
Subject:: Jews/Gypsies/Musicians/Bands/Mixed

Sari Virag

Genre:: Spoken Word/Hungarian
Translation:: See Translation: Album Liner Notes _ Z-014(d)
Additional song notes:: We played at many Jewish weddings and celebrations. Bergovo, Huzt, Skatina, Rachov. We had to learn Jewish music if we were going to work. My brother Tivador is an excellent accordionist. He taught me how to play the accordionand the Jewish, German and Hungarian melodies

Intro to Shtayngart's Skotshne

Author:: Strom, Yale
Author:: Margolies, Meriam
Genre:: Spoken Word
Subject:: Women Musicians/18th Century/Market Fairs/Yaridn
Additional song notes:: Commentary by Miriam Margolies and Yale Strom

Recording

On album:: Z-014(k) (The Devil's Brides/ Klezmer & Yiddish Songs/ Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi)
Track ID:: 42124
Spoken Word:: Margolies, Meriam
First line:: Sholem aleykhem and hello.This is Miriam Margolies, . I'm delighted to welcome
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:47

Intro To Geshinke

Genre:: Spoken Word/Poem Explanation
Additional song notes:: Commentary by Miriam Margolies

Recording

On album:: Z-014(k) (The Devil's Brides/ Klezmer & Yiddish Songs/ Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi)
Track ID:: 42126
Spoken Word:: Margolies, Meriam
First line:: For Jews all over Eastern Europe the threat of war and progroms always hung in..
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:04

Intro To Simkhes Hanefesh

Genre:: Spoken Word
Subject:: Nigunim/Hasidim
Additional song notes:: Commentary by Miriam Marulies

Recording

On album:: Z-014(k) (The Devil's Brides/ Klezmer & Yiddish Songs/ Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi)
Track ID:: 42131
Spoken Word:: Margolies, Meriam
First line:: Simkhes Hanefesh. In 18th century Poland the Jewish mystic philosophy of…
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:36

Intro To Dobrushin's Sher

Genre:: Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Commentary by Miriam Margolies

Recording

On album:: Z-014(k) (The Devil's Brides/ Klezmer & Yiddish Songs/ Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi)
Track ID:: 42135
Spoken Word:: Margolies, Meriam
First line:: The repertoireof the klezmer musician was vast and…and included many kind of…
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:19

Intro to Tum Balalayka

Genre:: Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Commentary by Miriam Margolies

Recording

On album:: Z-014(k) (The Devil's Brides/ Klezmer & Yiddish Songs/ Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi)
Track ID:: 42139
Spoken Word:: Margolies, Meriam
First line:: The purveyor of Yiddish folk song was ofter the woman of the house, and why?
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:57

Intro To Lubliner Tish Nigun

Genre:: Spoken Word
Subject:: Chassidim, Nigunim
Additional song notes:: Commentary by Miriam Margolies

Recording

On album:: Z-014(k) (The Devil's Brides/ Klezmer & Yiddish Songs/ Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi)
Track ID:: 42141
Spoken Word:: Margolies, Meriam
First line:: Lubliner Nign. At the sabbath table on a Friday evening the chassidim of eastern
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:27

Intro To Der Rebe Hot Geheysn Freylekh Zayn

Genre:: Spoken Word
Subject:: Melody also known as Ma Yofus"
Additional song notes:: Commentary by Miriam Margolies/ Recorded under title "Intro to Lustig Zayn"

Recording

On album:: Z-014(k) (The Devil's Brides/ Klezmer & Yiddish Songs/ Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi)
Track ID:: 42143
Spoken Word:: Margolies, Meriam
First line:: Sometimes klezmer songs borrowed from popular fold melodies. Lustig Zayn,…
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: !:18

Intro to L'shuaseko

Genre:: Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Commentary by Miriam Margolies Reference to Psalm 121:4 He neither slumbers nor slleps He who Keeps Israel

Recording

On album:: Z-014(k) (The Devil's Brides/ Klezmer & Yiddish Songs/ Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi)
Track ID:: 42145
Spoken Word:: Margolies, Meriam
First line:: In the audio drama "The Witches of Lublin", one song provides the key to…
Language:: English
Style:: Sopken Word
Length:: 0:39

Intro To Kolemeyke

Genre:: Spoken Word
Additional song notes:: Commentary by Miriam Margolies

Recording

On album:: Z-014(k) (The Devil's Brides/ Klezmer & Yiddish Songs/ Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi)
Track ID:: 42147
Spoken Word:: Margolies, Meriam
First line:: Jews in 18th century Poland, throughout Eastern Europe for that matter,…
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:31

The End

Genre:: Spoken Word
Subject:: Music from the audio drama "The Witches of Lublin"
Additional song notes:: Comment by Miriam Margulies

Recording

On album:: Z-014(k) (The Devil's Brides/ Klezmer & Yiddish Songs/ Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi)
Track ID:: 42149
Spoken Word:: Margolies, Meriam
First line:: I'm Miriam Margolies. Thank you for joining me for "The Devil's Brides"…
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:12

Intro to Dire Gelt

Genre:: Spoken Word
Subject:: Rent/Musicians/Poverty
Additional song notes:: Commentary by Miriam Margolies and Yale Strom

Recording

On album:: Z-014(k) (The Devil's Brides/ Klezmer & Yiddish Songs/ Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi)
Track ID:: 42128
Spoken Word:: Margolies, Meriam
First line:: Dire Gelt. The concept of rent is something dear to all artists, particulary…
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:17

Tevye The Dairyman Read by Shmuel Atsmon — גאַנץ טבֿיה דער מילכיקער געליינט פֿון שמואל עצמון

Genre:: Literary Orgin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Tevye The Dairyman

Recording

On album:: A-104(a)
Track ID:: 42254

Shver Tsu Zayn A Yid — שווער צו זײַן אַ ייִד

Author:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Genre:: Spoken Word/Skit/Himorous
Subject:: Rabbinate/Conversion/Christian Woman/Wedding/Children
Additional song notes:: Hard To Be A Jew

Recording

On album:: D-005(e) (Lustig Un Lebedik Freylekh (Lebedov) Dzigan's Lakh Oytser — לוסטיג און לעבעדיק דזשיגאַנס לאַך אױצר)
Track ID:: 42469
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
First line:: Shalom, vos hot ir zogn, gits, kh'vil redn mit der rov aleyn, un…vilt ir…
First line (Yןddish):: שלום, וואָס האָט איר זאָגן גיטס, כ'וויל רעדן מיט דער רבֿ אַליין, און..ווילט איר
Language:: Yןddish
Style:: Skit/Humorous/Spoken Word
Length:: 5:26

Der Yisroelidiker Menakhem Mendl — דער ישׂראלידיקער מנחם מענדל

Genre:: Spoken Word/Humor
Song comment:: Israel/Immigration/Government/Economics/PolicyCrises/Banks/Taxes
Additional song notes:: The Israeli Menakhem Mendl

Recording

On album:: D-005(c) (Shimon Dzigan Doctorim Heysn Lakhn-Fun Sholem Aleichem — שמיון דזשיגאַן דאָקטױרים הײסן לאַכן - פֿון שלום אליכם)
Track ID:: 3472
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
First line:: Ikh bin a yisroeldiker menakhem mendl,...vos iz a gevezene oleh un a tsukoftiker
First line (Yiddish):: איך בין אַ ישׂראלידיקער מנחם מענדל,...וואָס איז אָ געוועזענע עולה, און אָ...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Marc Chagall (A Poem) (Side 2) — מאַרק שאַגאַל (אַ פּאָעמע)

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Chagall/Paintings/Subjects/Memory/Vitebsk/Fiddle/Muscician
Origin:: Alb K-006(a)
Translation:: Alb K-006(a)

Recording

On album:: K-006(a) (Marc Chagall a poem written & read in Yiddish by Aaron Kurtz)
Track ID:: 42960
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

The Supreme Jazz-Baby Speaks/Band Intro.

Genre:: Spoken Word
Subject:: Humor

Recording

On album:: K-020(f) (The Klezmorim "Jazz Babies of the Ukraine")
Track ID:: 42973
Speaker:: Klezmorim — קלעזמאָרים
First line:: Millions and billions years ago, the earth was nothing more than a ball of molten lava..
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:01

Vi Berezes Vayse — ווי בערעזעס װײַסע

Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Birches/Love/Anger/Pride/
Origin:: Korn 22
Translation:: Korn 23

Recording

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22584
English Adaptation:: Levitan, Seymour
Vocal:: Perry, Roslyn Bresnick
First line:: Dayne yorn, vi berezes vayse, zoymen ayn mayn veg- kh'trog thi nayne...
First line:: דײַנע יאָרן, װי בערעזעס װײַסע, זוימען אײַן מײַן װעג-כ'האָב אין מײַנע...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:44

A Mayse Mit A Grinhorn — אַ מעשׁה מיט אַ גרינהאָרן

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Humor
Subject:: Occupation/Shofer Blower/Immigration
Additional song notes:: A Story About A Greenhorn

Recording

On album:: A-003(b) (Sholom Aleichem Read in Yiddish by Gustave Berger)
Track ID:: 445
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
VOCAL:: Berger, Gustav — בערגער, גוסטאַװ
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Text and translation by Isaiah Sheffer with album notes
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Monologue/Recitation

Yiddish New York

Genre:: Spoken Word
Subject:: Description of Jewish Sound Archive at Univ of Penn.

Recording

On album:: Y-068(a) (Yiddish New York/Robert Freedman)
Track ID:: 43170
Spoken Word:: Freedman, Robert
First line:: My name is Bob Freedman. My wife and I are the curators of the Jewish Sound Archive at thr University of Pennsylcania.
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 60:00

New York Yiddish/Robert Freedman

Genre:: Spoken Word
Subject:: Descrition of Archive
Origin:: placed in ephemera

Dialog — דיאַלאָג

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Recording

On album:: L-010(a) (Poetry of H. Leivick Recorded in Yiddish by Maxim Brodyn 1)
Track ID:: 3852
Artist:: Brodyn, Maxim — בראָדין, מאַקסים
First line:: Shoyn lang, shoyn lang fargesn vi mir zaynen gezesn in...
First line (Yiddish):: שױן לאַנג, שױן לאַנג פֿאַרגעסן װי מיר זײַנען געזעסן אין שאָטן...
Language:: Yiddish

Dos Alts Vos Kumt Mir Tsu Kholem — דאָס אלץ װאָס קומט מיר צו חלום

Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Dreams/Sorrow/Capsulated/Creativity
Origin:: Korn 94
Translation:: Korn 95

Recording

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22600
Vocal:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Vocal/English Adaption:: Levitan, Seymour
First line:: Do alts, vos kumt mir tsu kholem, hot dokh ergets an unheyb, a sof--
First line:: דאָס אַלץ, װאָס קומט מיר צו חלום, האָט דאָך ערגעץ אַן אָנהייב, אַ סוף--
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:40

Dos Farkishefte Shnayderl — דאָס פֿאַרקישעװטע שנײַדערל

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Spoken Word/Sketch/Literary Origin
Subject:: Tailor/Goat/Practical Joke/Tragedy/Buck/Exchange/Tavern
Additional song notes:: The Enchanted Tailor

Recording

On album:: D-005(c) (Shimon Dzigan Doctorim Heysn Lakhn-Fun Sholem Aleichem — שמיון דזשיגאַן דאָקטױרים הײסן לאַכן - פֿון שלום אליכם)
Track ID:: 4022
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Natan, Misha — מתן, מישה
Vocal:: Anabela — אנאבלה
Vocal:: Liton, Eni — עני ליטאָן
First line:: Ish haya..geven a mentsh in ladeyevke, geheysn shimon elye shmakolenu, un der…
First line (Yiddish):: איש היה... געווען אַ מענטש אין לאַדייווקע, געהייסן שימאָן עלי שמאַקאָלעני און
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Skit
Length:: 23:06

Dray Zin — דרײַ זין

Author:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Author:: Karpinovitsh, Avraham — קאַרפּינאָװיטש, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Spoken Word/Monologe/Humorous/Bitterness
Subject:: Sons/Doctors/Pride/Lonliness/Ailments/Neighbor/Leeches/
Additional song notes:: Three Sons (Prestigious doctors having no time for father.

Recording

On album:: D-005(d) (The Last Laugh Of Shimon Dzigan — דאָס לעצטי געלעכטער פֿון שמיון דזשיגאַן)
Track ID:: 4291
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
First line:: …mayn elstn zin,…mayn zin…oyrn, noz, halz,…ikh bin zayn a tatn, ikh heyse afile
First line (Yiddish):: מײַן עלסטן זין...מײַן זין,...אוירן, נוז. האַלז,...איך בין זײַן אַ טאַטן,..
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologe/Humourous/Bitterness
Length:: 8:42

A Oleh Fun Sovyet Rusland — אַן עולה פֿון סאָװיעט רוסלאַנד

Author:: Brat, Yitskhak — בראַט, יצחק
Author:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Genre:: Spoken Word/Monolog/Humorous
Subject:: Immigration/Israel/Gentiles/Process/Delay/Ransom/Debts
Additional song notes:: An Immigrant From The Soviet Union

Recording

On album:: D-005(d) (The Last Laugh Of Shimon Dzigan — דאָס לעצטי געלעכטער פֿון שמיון דזשיגאַן)
Track ID:: 512
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
First line:: …A draysik yor tsurik hob ikh antloyfn fun varshe, fun Varshe gelofn keyn…
First line (Yiddish):: אַ דרײַסיק יאָר צוריק האָב איך אַנטלאָפֿן פֿון וואַרשע, פֿון וואַרשע געלאָפֿן
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologue/Humorous
Length:: 10:26

Eban, Abba

Genre:: Spoken Word/Historical/Zionist
Subject:: Israel/Nation/Birth

Recording

On album:: I-005(a) (Israel, A Nation is Born)
Track ID:: 4427
Vocal:: Eban, Abba
Narrator:: Raymond, Art, narrator
Track comment:: President, Zionist Organization of America, 1947.
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Eban, Abba (UN June 6, 1967)

Author:: Eban, Abba
Genre:: Spoken Word/Historical/Zionist
Subject:: 1967 War/Attack/Defense

Recording

On album:: G-011(a) (The Generations of Israel)
Track ID:: 19232
Vocal:: Eban, Abba
First line:: Now there could be no doubt about what was intended for us,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

A Shmues Mit Dem Reboynu Shel Olam — אַ שמועס מיט דעם רבּונו של עולם

Author:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Genre:: Spoken Word/Monologue/Humorous
Subject:: Israel/Complaints/Constancy/Sorrows/Poverty/Sins
Additional song notes:: A Coversation With The Master of the Universe

Recording

On album:: D-005(d) (The Last Laugh Of Shimon Dzigan — דאָס לעצטי געלעכטער פֿון שמיון דזשיגאַן)
Track ID:: 593
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
First line:: Reboynu shel olam, bin ikh gekumen tsu dir a bisl oys taynen, az dos vos di yidn
First line (Yiddish):: רבּנוּ של עולם בין איך געקומען צו דיר אַ ביסל אויסטענען אַ דאָס וואָס די ייִדן
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologue
Length:: 3:21

A Shmues Mit Sholom Aleichem — אַ שמועס מיט שלום עליכם

Author:: Nudelman, Moshe — נודעלמאַן, משה
Genre:: Humor/Spoken Word
Subject:: Menakhem Mendl/Shlimazl/Moses/Menakhem Begin/Plagues/Israel

Recording

On album:: D-005(c) (Shimon Dzigan Doctorim Heysn Lakhn-Fun Sholem Aleichem — שמיון דזשיגאַן דאָקטױרים הײסן לאַכן - פֿון שלום אליכם)
Track ID:: 594
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
First line:: Sholem aleichem, a gast gekumen tsu der fayerung fun ayer 120stn gebirstog…
First line (Yiddish):: שלום עליכם, אַ גאַסט געקומען צו דער פֿײַערונג פֿון אײַערער 120סטן געבורטסטאָג
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monolog/Humorous
Length:: 8:19

Far Mayne Troymen — פֿאַר מײַנע טרױמען

Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: House

Recording

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22604
Vocal:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Vocal/English Adaptation:: Levitan, Seymour
First line:: Far mayne navanade troymen vel ikh oyfboyen a hoyf,
First line:: פֿאַר מײַנע נאַװאַנאַדאַ טרױמען װעל איך אױפֿבױען אַ הױף,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:53

Fardungen Tsu Mine Goyrl — פֿאַרדונגען צו מײַן גױרל

Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Dream/Reality/Fate/Word/World
Origin:: Korn 78
Translation:: Korn 79
Additional song notes:: Hired to My Fate

Recording

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22602
Author/Artist:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
First line:: Az ikh veys nisht tsi in kholem, tsu efsher gor oyf der vor, hob ikh zikh...
First line:: אַז איך װײס נישט צי אין חלום, צי אַפֿשר גאָר אױף דער װאָר, האָב איך זיך...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:59

Fossil Or Nation, Debate

Author:: Herzog, Yaacov — הרצוג, יעקב
Author:: Toynbee, Arnold J.
Genre:: Spoken Word/Debate/Historical
Subject:: Continuity/Life/Natuion/Vitality/Antediluvian/Outmoded

Recording

On album:: T-010(a) (Fossil Or Nation Debate Arnold J. Tonybee, Yaacov D. Herzog)
Track ID:: 5324
Vocal:: Toynbee, Arnold J.
Vocal:: Herzog, Yaacov — הרצוג, יעקב
Language:: English
Style:: Speech/Debate

Gebentsht Gezang — געבענטשט געזאַנג

Author:

Leivick, Halper — לײװיק, האַלפּער

Genre:

Literary Origin/ Spoken Word

Subject:

Song/Ascending/Joy/Faith/Rest/Blessing/Sunbright/

Origin:

Ephemera 1428

Additional song notes:

Blessed Song

Related information in folder 1428:

Comments:: 1. 7/29/2014 Yiddish text of poem by H. Leivick entered in Ephemera on July 29,2014

Recording

On album:: L-010(b) (Poetry of H. Leivick Recorded in Yiddish by Maxim Brodyn 2)
Track ID:: 5566
Vocal:: Brodyn, Maxim — בראָדין, מאַקסים
First line:: Gebensht gezang fun al-gezangen, ןn heler zun fun mitn tog,
First line:: געבענטשט געזאַנג פֿון אַל־געזאַנגען, אין העלער זון פֿון מיטן טאָג,

Himne — הימנע

Author:

Leivick, Halper — לײװיק, האַלפּער

Genre:

Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Subject:

Food/Plates/Utensils/Gulp/LettuceTomatoes/Sunflowers/Cook

Origin:

Leivick GA 17/Ephemera

Additional song notes:

Hymn / Add to subject: Cows/Udders/Milkers/Jugs/Bread/Death/Certainty/Unity/Praise/Food/Soup

Related information in folder 1439:

Comments:: 1. 8/27/2014 Yiddish text from Book titled "Lider Fun Gan-Edn, p 17 entered in ephemera on August 27, 2014

Recording

On album:: L-010(b) (Poetry of H. Leivick Recorded in Yiddish by Maxim Brodyn 2)
Track ID:: 6928
Author:: Leivick, Halper — לײװיק, האַלפּער
Vocal:: Brodyn, Maxim — בראָדין, מאַקסים
First line:: Fleysh un zup in teler, gupl-meser-klung, est oyf shnel…
First line (Yiddish):: פֿלײש און זופּ אין טעלער, גופּל־מעסער־קלונג, עסט אױף שנעל…
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Iyev — איובֿ

Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Holocaust/Sorrow/Accusation/God
Origin:: Korn 60
Translation:: Korn 61
Additional song notes:: Job

Recording

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22594
Spoken Word:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Spoken Word/English Adaptation:: Levitan, Seymour
First line:: Vi s'volt der himl plutsem zikh tsefent mit a volknbrukh, fun kloles un krets,
First line:: װי ס'װאָלט דער הימל פּלוצעם זיך צעפֿענט מיט אַ װאָלקןברוך פֿון קללות און קרעץ,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 10:19

Agentn — אַגענטן

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Humor
Subject:: Railroad/Travel/Chicken Livers/Wives/Priest/Pig/Tickets/
Additional song notes:: Agents Could not follow Repartee

Recording

On album:: D-005(c) (Shimon Dzigan Doctorim Heysn Lakhn-Fun Sholem Aleichem — שמיון דזשיגאַן דאָקטױרים הײסן לאַכן - פֿון שלום אליכם)
Track ID:: 956
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Natan, Misha — מתן, מישה
Vocal:: Feldman, Karol — פֿעלדמאַן, קאַראָל
First line:: …(Speaking Russian) a mekhaye tsu forn mit der ban…m'iz dokh geven in golus..
First line (Yiddish):: אַ מחיה צו פֿאַרן מיט דער באַן מ'איז דאָך געווען אין גלוס...אַ גלך מיט אַ חזיר
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous/Skit
Length:: 7:31

Kh'hob Haynt Bay Nakht — כ'האָב הײַנט בײַ נאַכט

Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Dream/Poem/Disappearance/Loss/Creativity
Origin:: Korn 70/Sh Sh 459
Translation:: Korn 70/Sh Sh 459
Additional song notes:: Last Night I Felt A Poem On My Lips

Recording

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22596
Spoken Word:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Spoken Word/English Adaptation:: Levitan, Seymour
First line:: Kh'hob haynt bay nakht gefilt a lid oyf mayne lipn--es iz geven vi a pri...
First line:: כ'האָב הײַנט בײַנאַכט געפֿילט אַ ליד אױף מײַנע ליפּן--עס איז...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:16

Kh'hob Zikh Gegreyt — כ'האָב זיך געגרײט

Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Sleep/Dream/Interruption/Creativity/Crying/Angel/Shame
Origin:: Korn 72
Translation:: Korn 73

Recording

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22598
Vocal:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Vocal/English Adaption:: Levitan, Seymour
First line:: Kh'hob zikh gegreyt tsu epes in mayn shlof, vi tsu der matan-shireh...
First line:: כ'האָב זיך געגרײט צו עפּעס אין מײַן שלאָף, ווי צו דער מתן־שירה אין...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:19

Marc Chagall (A Poem) (Side 1) — מאַרק שאַגאַל (אַ פּאָעמע)

Author:: Kurtz, Aaron — קורץ, אהרן
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Chagall/Paintings/Subjects/Memory/Vitebsk/Fiddle/Muscician
Origin:: Alb K-006(a)
Translation:: Alb K-006(a)

Recording

On album:: K-006(a) (Marc Chagall a poem written & read in Yiddish by Aaron Kurtz)
Track ID:: 9751
Vocal:: Kurtz, Aaron — קורץ, אהרן
First line:: Ikh vil aykk dertsayln a mayse, Ikh vil a legende...
First line (Yiddish):: איך װיל אײַך דערצײלן אַ מעשׂה, איך װיל אַ לעגענדע דערצײלן פֿון...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Yiddish text and translation with album.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Mayn Mamen — מײַן מאַמען

Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Daughter/Mother/Memory/Continuity/Sorrow/Knowledge
Origin:: Korn 44
Translation:: Korn 44
Additional song notes:: To My Mother

Recording

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22592
Vocal:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Vocal:: Perry, Roslyn Bresnick
English Adaption:: Levitan, Seymour
First line:: Zint du bist mer nishto, bin ikh gevorn hemshekh, far ale dayne nokh nisht...
First line:: זינט דו ביסט מער נישטאָ בין איך געװאָרן המשך, פֿאַר אַלע דײַנע אויסגעלעבטע טעג
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 5:59

Menakhem Mendl Shraybt A Briv... — מנחם מענדל שרײבט אַ בריװ צו שלום...

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Spoken Word/Literary Origin/Humorous/Lament
Subject:: Letter, Home/Passover/Turmoil/In-Laws/Occupations/Shadkhn
Additional song notes:: Menakhem Mendl Writes a Letter to Sholem Aleichem.

Recordings

On album:: D-005(b) (Sh. Dzigan 1977 — ש. דזשיגען)
Track ID:: 10284
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
First line:: Oy, oy vey, Sholem Aleichem, breyshes, ken ikh aykh shraybn az ikh bin gezunt..
First line (Yiddish):: אוי, אוי וויי...שלום אליכם, בראשית, קען איך אײַך שרײַבן אַז איך בין געזונט,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Style/Spoken Word/Monologue/
Length:: 9:59

On album:: Y-019(a) (Yiddish Humor — יידישע הומור)
Track ID:: 19972
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
First line:: אין די װיגן װײנען קינדער, װיגן מאַמעס צו, לולינקע לו לו...

Mevaker Khoyle Zayn — מבֿקר חולה זײַן

Author:: Nudelman, Moshe — נודעלמאַן, משה
Genre:: Spoken Word/Skit/Humorous
Subject:: Hospital/Visit/Patients/Doctor/Fever/Widow/Flesh/Bones
Additional song notes:: To Visit The Sick

Recording

On album:: D-005(e) (Lustig Un Lebedik Freylekh (Lebedov) Dzigan's Lakh Oytser — לוסטיג און לעבעדיק דזשיגאַנס לאַך אױצר)
Track ID:: 10333
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
First line:: ...Ikh tur zikh oysredn vel ikh aykh oysgeshnitn di meyse, un di hoybt zakh,..
First line (Yiddish):: איך טור זיך אויסרעדן, וועל איך אײַך אויסגעשנעטן די מעשׂה, און די הויבט זאָך ..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Skit/Humorous/Spoken Word
Length:: 6:24

Mirele Efros (Audio) — מירעלע עפֿראָס (אודיאָ)

Author:: Gordin, Yakov — גאָרדין, יעקבֿ
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Mother/Children/Conflict/Family/Inlaws/Business/Bar Mitzva/

Recording

On album:: E-017(a) (Mirele Efros by Ya'acov Gordin In Yiddish)
Track ID:: 10532
Adaptation:: Natan, Misha — מתן, מישה
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Drama/Spoken Word

Mirele Efros (Excerpt) — מירעלע עפֿראָס (אױסצוג)

Author:: Gordin, Yakov — גאָרדין, יעקבֿ
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:: Mother/Children/Conflict/Family/Inlaws/Business/Bar Mitzva/

Recording

On album:: K-008(a) (Ida Kaminska and her Yiddish State Theatre of Poland)
Track ID:: 10533
Vocal:: Kaminska, Ida — קאַמינסקע, אידאַ
Vocal:: Grudberg, Itsik — קאַמינסקע, רחל
Vocal:: Kaminska, Rakhl — גרודבערג, איציק
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish

Moshe Dayan Un Rabin In Yor 1998 — משה דיין און יצחק ראַבין אין יאָר...

Genre:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Subject:: Aging/Memory/Deafness/Forgetfulness/Political Parties/Taxes

Recording

On album:: D-005(b) (Sh. Dzigan 1977 — ש. דזשיגען)
Track ID:: 10705
Author/Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Natan, Misha — מתן, מישה
First line:: O, shalom(2) Dayan, ha, shalom Dayan, ha, yo shalom(2),Yitzkhak Rabin, zets zikh
First line (Yiddish):: אָ, שלום(2) דײַאַן, האַ, שלום דײַאַן, האַ יאָ, זעץ זיך אַוועק, האַ טויב ווי..
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 10:30

Forn Forstu Fun Mir Avek — פֿאָרן פֿאָרסטו פֿון מיר אַװעק

Genre:: Lament/Love
Subject:: Traveling/Distance/Separation/Conscription/Escape/Wedding
Origin:: Alb S-295(a)
Transliteration:: Alb S-295(a)
Translation:: Alb S-295(a)
Additional song notes:: You're Traveling Away From Me

On album:: L-109(b) (London Klezmer Quartet / Ilana Cravitz/ Calling)
Track ID:: 43219
Vocal:: Seigel, Miryem-Khaye — סגל, מרים־חיה
Arranger/Producer:: Winograd, Michael — ווינאָגראַד, מ.
Accordion:: Farrell, Patrick
Piano:: Staaf, Carmen
violin:: Svigals, Alicia
First line:: Forn forstu כun mir avek, tayer lebn mayns, tsi dem prisiv darfts du shoyn shteln, helfzhe mir shoyn, gotenu, zolst……...
First line (Yiddish):: פֿאָרסטו פון מיר אַוועק טײַער לעבן מײַנס, צי דעם פריזיוו דאַרסט זיך שוין שטעלן, העלפֿ-זשע מיר גאָטעניו, זאָלסט אַרויס פֿון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Concert/Lament/Sadly/Folk
Length:: 5:17

In Midbar Sini — אין מדבּר סיני

Author:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Sinai/1956 War
Origin:: Alb S-016(a)
Translation:: Left Sutz 142
Additional song notes:: In The Sinai Desert

On album:: S-016(a) (The Poetry of Abraham Sutzkever, The Vilno Poet)
Track ID:: 7397
Vocal:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Di trer di benkindike oyf mayn vie iz alt vi du.
First line (Yiddish):: די טרער די בענקענדיקע אױף מײַן װיִע איז אַלט װי דו.
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Text and annotations with album notes- Ruth Wisse, annotat
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Ikh Bin A Yid — איך בין אַ ייִד

Author:

Fefer, Lt. Col Itzik — פֿעפֿער, איציק

Composer:

Gorovets, Emil (Rakhmil) Iakovlevich — גאָראָװעץ, עמיל

Genre:

Literary Origin/USSR

Subject:

Pride/Ancestry/Revenge/Identy/Resistance

Origin:

Alb G-018(c)

Transliteration:

Ephemera 1269/Ephemera 1458 2012

Translation:

Alb F-033(a)/Alb G-018(c)/Ephemera 1269/Ephemera 1458 2012

Additional song notes:

I Am A Jew Music credited to Beregovski in Ephemera 1269 Org, Translit & Translt on Alb B-211(a) Ephemera 1458 See 2012 program for translat and trqqnslit. Alb V0290-- What's Not To Like -- 2012

Related information in folder 1138:

Comments:: 1. Yiddish Texr, Shpigl 694 2. English Adapation by Thomas Bird, HG TYP 13

On album:: F-033(a) (Lieutenant=Colonel Itzik Feffer...a recital of his own poems)
Track ID:: 7100
Vocal:: Fefer, Lt. Col Itzik — פֿעפֿער, איציק
English Adaption:: Klein, Tania Brook
First line:: Der vayn fun doyresidkn doyer hot mikh geshtarked in...
First line (Yiddish):: דער װײַן פֿון דורותדיקן דױער האַט מיך גישטאַרקט אין װאַנדערװעג,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: 78 RPM Keystone Recording, Inc., NYC K 536
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Hienu po hienu sham — היינו פה היינו שם

Genre:: Military
Additional song notes:: We were here we were there

On album:: A-080(a) (Army Band — להקת הננח"ל)
Track ID:: 37362
First line:: Hienu po hienu sham raienu fa et a olam
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Matilda — מטילדה

Genre:: Military

On album:: A-080(a) (Army Band — להקת הננח"ל)
Track ID:: 37363
First line:: Hey alyiza
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Nomi Nomi — נומי נומי

Genre:: Military

On album:: A-080(a) (Army Band — להקת הננח"ל)
Track ID:: 37364
First line:: lifnay har beshanim haya b'eretz re chol kach nesicha mechoeret
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Al Hagel Hakol — על הגל הקל

Genre:: Jazz/Army
Additional song notes:: The light wave

On album:: A-080(a) (Army Band — להקת הננח"ל)
Track ID:: 37365
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Anat — ענת

Genre:: Military

On album:: A-080(a) (Army Band — להקת הננח"ל)
Track ID:: 37366
First line:: yesh nonschunot, em beem yabnim rodec conot
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Kasrilevker Restoranen — כּתריאלעװקער רעסטאָראַנען

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humor/
Subject:: Food/Restuarants/Hunger/Frustration
Translation:: AL IK 44

On album:: A-003(j) (Holiday Tales by Sholem Aleichem/Read by Rita Karin & David Rogow — לכּבֿוד יום-טובֿ)
Track ID:: 7830
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
Vocal:: Karpinovitsh, Rita — קאַרפּינאָװיטש, ריטאַ
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Kasrilevker Restoranen — כּתריאלעװקער רעסטאָראַנען

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humor/
Subject:: Food/Restuarants/Hunger/Frustration
Translation:: AL IK 44

On album:: A-003(a) (Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh / The Little People — שלום עליכם די קלײנע מענטשעלעך)
Track ID:: 7831
Vocal:: Rudensky, Shmuel — רודענסקי, שמואל
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Vocal:: Goldenberg, Eliyahu — גאָלדענבערג, אליהו
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Kasrilevker Restoranen — כּתריאלעװקער רעסטאָראַנען

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humor/
Subject:: Food/Restuarants/Hunger/Frustration
Translation:: AL IK 44

On album:: A-003(h) (Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh — שלום עליכם די קלײנע מענטשעלעך)
Track ID:: 7832
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Vocal:: Di Dray Shmueliks — די דרײ שמואליקס
Vocal:: Rudensky, Shmuel — רודענסקי, שמואל
Vocal:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Kasrilevker Restoranen — כּתריאלעװקער רעסטאָראַנען

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humor/
Subject:: Food/Restuarants/Hunger/Frustration
Translation:: AL IK 44

On album:: A-007(b) (Yiddish Classics Brought To Life Chayele Ash — חיהלע אַש \ ארי און אַבֿרהם פֿורמאַן)
Track ID:: 7833
Vocal:: Fuhrman, Avrom — פֿורמאַן, אַבֿרהם
Vocal/Adaptation:: Ash, Chayele — אַש, חיהלע
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Parchim v'narot — פרחים ונערות

Genre:: Military
Additional song notes:: Flowers and girls

On album:: A-080(a) (Army Band — להקת הננח"ל)
Track ID:: 37367
First line:: betziday ha'darachim lo hatimha rachim betziday midrachot lo ha it harochot
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Kasrilevker Sreyfes — כּתריאלעװקער שׂריפות

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Humor/Literary Origin
Subject:: Fire/Shtetl

On album:: D-005(s) (Dzigan and Szumacher Di Beste Yorn — דזיגן ושומאכר די בעסטע יאָרן)
Track ID:: 7835
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Kasrilevker Teater — כּתריאלעװקער טעאַטער

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous
Subject:: Theater.
Transliteration:: Ale Ik 65

On album:: A-003(a) (Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh / The Little People — שלום עליכם די קלײנע מענטשעלעך)
Track ID:: 7836
Vocal:: Rudensky, Shmuel — רודענסקי, שמואל
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Artist:: Goldenberg, Eliyahu — גאָלדענבערג, אליהו
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Katonti (Yid) — קטונתי (ייִדיש)

On album:: A-003(m)
Track ID:: 7844
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Artist:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Track comment:: From series of five tapes - tape 1, side A
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Tzionot! Hala Teshal — ציונות! הלא תשאל

Genre:: Military
Additional song notes:: Working! Don't Ask

On album:: A-080(a) (Army Band — להקת הננח"ל)
Track ID:: 37368
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Carnival Benchal — קרנבל בנחל

Genre:: Military
Additional song notes:: Carnival stream

On album:: A-080(a) (Army Band — להקת הננח"ל)
Track ID:: 37369
First line:: Carnival! Charnival mishelo yavo havar x2
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Rakloniot — רכלניות

Genre:: Military
Additional song notes:: Gossips

On album:: A-080(a) (Army Band — להקת הננח"ל)
Track ID:: 37370
First line:: Makarah, mahohel, mahadash! Hagetchat habamin akshevim
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Shaloah — שלווה

Genre:: Military
Additional song notes:: Peace

On album:: A-080(a) (Army Band — להקת הננח"ל)
Track ID:: 37371
First line:: Al hamachaneya yareach al hamarea sareah
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Instant Yiddish-When You Go To Eat

Author:: Kogos, Fred
Genre:: Instruction
Subject:: Food
Origin:: Album Y-014(a)

On album:: Y-014(a) (Instant Yiddish / Featuring Maria Karnilova and Zvee Scooler)
Track ID:: 7458
Vocal:: Karnilova, Maria
Vocal:: Scooler, Tsvi — סקולער, צבֿי
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Phrase book accompanies album
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Instant Yiddish-When You Meet..

Author:: Kogos, Fred
Genre:: Instruction
Subject:: Phrases
Origin:: Y-014(a)

On album:: Y-014(a) (Instant Yiddish / Featuring Maria Karnilova and Zvee Scooler)
Track ID:: 7459
Vocal:: Karnilova, Maria
Vocal:: Scooler, Tsvi — סקולער, צבֿי
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Phrase book accompanies album
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Instant Yiddish-When You..Friends

Author:: Kogos, Fred
Genre:: Instructional
Subject:: Acquitaince/Meeting/Introductions
Origin:: Alb Y-014(a)

On album:: Y-014(a) (Instant Yiddish / Featuring Maria Karnilova and Zvee Scooler)
Track ID:: 7460
Vocal:: Scooler, Tsvi — סקולער, צבֿי
Vocal:: Karnilova, Maria
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Phrase book accompanies album
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Instant Yiddish-When You..Hotel

Author:: Kogos, Fred
Genre:: Instructional
Subject:: Room/Days/Food/Money/Hotel
Origin:: Alb Y-014(a0

On album:: Y-014(a) (Instant Yiddish / Featuring Maria Karnilova and Zvee Scooler)
Track ID:: 7461
Vocal:: Scooler, Tsvi — סקולער, צבֿי
Vocal:: Karnilova, Maria
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Phrase book accompanies album
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Instant Yiddish-When You..Numbers

Author:: Kogos, Fred
Genre:: Instructional
Subject:: Numbers
Origin:: Alb Y-014(a)

On album:: Y-014(a) (Instant Yiddish / Featuring Maria Karnilova and Zvee Scooler)
Track ID:: 7462
Vocal:: Scooler, Tsvi — סקולער, צבֿי
Vocal:: Karnilova, Maria
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Phrase book accompanies album
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Instant Yiddish-When You..Shopping

Author:: Kogos, Fred
Genre:: Instruction
Subject:: Money/Sizes/Clothes/Colors
Origin:: Alb Y-014(a)

On album:: Y-014(a) (Instant Yiddish / Featuring Maria Karnilova and Zvee Scooler)
Track ID:: 7463
Vocal:: Scooler, Tsvi — סקולער, צבֿי
Artist:: Karnilova, Maria
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Phrase book accompanies album
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Instant Yiddish-When You..Travel

Author:: Kogos, Fred
Genre:: Instruction
Subject:: Travel/Phrases/Direction/Places
Origin:: Y-014(a)

On album:: Y-014(a) (Instant Yiddish / Featuring Maria Karnilova and Zvee Scooler)
Track ID:: 7464
Vocal:: Scooler, Tsvi — סקולער, צבֿי
Vocal:: Karnilova, Maria
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Phrase book accompanies album
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Instant Yiddish-When You..Trouble

Author:: Kogos, Fred
Genre:: Instruction
Subject:: Trouble/Help
Origin:: Y-014(a)

On album:: Y-014(a) (Instant Yiddish / Featuring Maria Karnilova and Zvee Scooler)
Track ID:: 7465
Vocal:: Scooler, Tsvi — סקולער, צבֿי
Vocal:: Karnilova, Maria
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Phrase book accompanies album
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Introduction Of Yosef Buloff — אַרײַנפֿיר װעגן יוסף בולאָף

On album:: B-047(a) (Joseph Buloff (Recorded at Sholem Aleichem Club, Phila-1973) — יוסף בולאָװ (שלום עליכם קלוב קאָנצערט, פֿליאַדעלפֿיע - 1973)
Track ID:: 7474
Artist:: Trachtenberg, Sonia — טראַכטענבערג, סאָניאַ
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Kh'vel Oyston Di Shikh — כ'װעל אױסטאָן די שיך

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Reconciliation/God/Return/Poet/Rhyme'Shoes/Sorrow/Weeping
Origin:: Vinkov 7 123/Manger 357Sh Sh 421
Transliteration:: Vinkov 7 123
Translation:: Vinkov 7 124/Lefwich 545/Sh Sh 420
Additional song notes:: I'll Take Off My Shoes "From "Volkns Ibern Dakh" (Clouds Over The Roof)

On album:: M-003(d) (Ovent Itsik Manger Poems and Songs by Itsik Manger — אָװענט (ערב) איציק מאַנגער)
Track ID:: 7984
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Kh'vel oyston di shikh un dem troyer, un kumen tsu dir...
First line (Yiddish):: כ'װעל אױסטאָן די שיך און דעם טרױער, און קומען צו דיר צוריק--
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: From "Volkns Ibern Dakh" "דאַך איבערן "װאָלקנס
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Kh'vel Oyston Di Shikh — כ'װעל אױסטאָן די שיך

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Reconciliation/God/Return/Poet/Rhyme'Shoes/Sorrow/Weeping
Origin:: Vinkov 7 123/Manger 357Sh Sh 421
Transliteration:: Vinkov 7 123
Translation:: Vinkov 7 124/Lefwich 545/Sh Sh 420
Additional song notes:: I'll Take Off My Shoes "From "Volkns Ibern Dakh" (Clouds Over The Roof)

On album:: B-047(a) (Joseph Buloff (Recorded at Sholem Aleichem Club, Phila-1973) — יוסף בולאָװ (שלום עליכם קלוב קאָנצערט, פֿליאַדעלפֿיע - 1973)
Track ID:: 7985
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Kh'vel oyston di shikh un dem troyer, un kumen tsu dir...
First line (Yiddish):: כ'װעל אױסטאָן די שיך און דעם טרױער, און קומען צו דיר צוריק--
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: From "Volkns Ibern Dakh" "דאַך איבערן "װאָלקנס
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Kh'hob Zikh Yorn Gevalgert — כ'האָב זיך יאָרן געװאַלגערט

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Wanderer/Alienation/Home/Israel/Dust/Poverty/Self/Identity
Origin:: Manger 486/Vinkov 7 170/Sh Sh 423/Alb C-060((a)
Transliteration:: Vinkov 7 170
Translation:: Jaffe 42/Penguin YID 590/Vinkov 7 172/Sh Sh 420/Alb C-060((a)
Additional song notes:: I Wandered For Years From "Sonatn Far Mayn Bruder Nete" (Sonnets For My Brother Nete)

On album:: M-003(a) (Itzik Manger Read by the Author — איציק מאַנגער לײנט איציק מאַנגער)
Track ID:: 7978
Vocal:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
First line:: Kh'hob zikh yorn gevalgert in der fremd,
First line (Yiddish):: כ'האָב זיך יאָרן געװאַלגערט אין דער פֿרעמד,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

In Di Vagonen (Heb) — אין די װאַגאָנען (עבֿרית)

On album:: R-012(a) (Yizkor Shammai Rosenblum — יזכּור שמאי רוזנבלום)
Track ID:: 7347
Author/Artist:: Rosenblum, Shami — רוזנבלום, שמאי
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word

In Paviak — אין פּאַװיאַק

On album:: D-005(s) (Dzigan and Szumacher Di Beste Yorn — דזיגן ושומאכר די בעסטע יאָרן)
Track ID:: 7414
Author:: Steingold
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Let Us All Speak Yiddish — קינדער, לאָמיר רעדן ייִדיש

Genre:: Instructional
Subject:: Yiddish/Learning/Vocabulary

On album:: K-036(a) (Kinder, Lummir Reddin Yiddish (Lomir Redn Yidish))
Track ID:: 9109
Instructor:: Sherman, Paul
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Cassette copied from album. Language instruction.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 34:49

Khasidishe Meyselekh (Perets) — חסידישע מעשׂהלעך (פּרץ)

On album:: B-047(a) (Joseph Buloff (Recorded at Sholem Aleichem Club, Phila-1973) — יוסף בולאָװ (שלום עליכם קלוב קאָנצערט, פֿליאַדעלפֿיע - 1973)
Track ID:: 8184
Author:: Peretz, Yitskhok Leybush — פּרץ, יצחק לײבוש
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Khava (Aleichem) — חוה (עליכם)

On album:: A-003(m)
Track ID:: 8208
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Artist:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Track comment:: From series of five tapes - tape 3, side B
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Kleyn Un Groys (Big And Little) — קלײן און גרױס

On album:: S-013(a) (Isaac Bashevis Singer Reads In Yiddish — יצחק באַשעװיס סינגער)
Track ID:: 8511
Author/Vocal:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
First line (Yiddish):: "Short Friday" Eng translat published in
Track comment:: Yid version published in "Gimpel The Fool And Other Stories"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Kidalto Vekedashto (Yid) — קדלת וקדשת (ייִדיש)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם

On album:: R-017(a) (Readings of Yiddish Literature Itzhak Rothblum — יצחק ראָטבלום פֿאָרלעזונגען און רעציטאַציעס פֿון דער ייִדישער...)
Track ID:: 8408
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Artist:: Rothblum, Itskhak — ראָטבלום, יצחק
First line:: Ivan paporilo, ken ander nomen hob ikh nisht gehat in der...
First line (Yiddish):: איװאַן פּאַפּאָרילאָ, קען אַנדער נאָמען האָב איך נישט געהאַט אין דער..
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Kh'hob Zikh Yorn Gevalgert — כ'האָב זיך יאָרן געװאַלגערט

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Wanderer/Alienation/Home/Israel/Dust/Poverty/Self/Identity
Origin:: Manger 486/Vinkov 7 170/Sh Sh 423/Alb C-060((a)
Transliteration:: Vinkov 7 170
Translation:: Jaffe 42/Penguin YID 590/Vinkov 7 172/Sh Sh 420/Alb C-060((a)
Additional song notes:: I Wandered For Years From "Sonatn Far Mayn Bruder Nete" (Sonnets For My Brother Nete)

On album:: G-104(a) (Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Itzik Manger Poems and Ballads — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט איזיק מאַנגער ליד און באַלאַדע)
Track ID:: 35362
Vocal:: Greenhoyz-Turkov, Shura — גרינהויז־טורקאָוו, שורא
First line:: Kh'hob zikh yorn gevalgert in der fremd,
First line (Yiddish):: כ'האָב זיך יאָרן געװאַלגערט אין דער פֿרעמד,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:00

Sholem Asch: Di Vokhendike Mame un di... — די וואָכענדיקע מאַמע און די שבתדיקע מאַמע

Genre:: Literary Origin/From The Tihilim Yid
Subject:: Weekdays/Shabes/Contrast/Venal/Spiritual/Scholar/Dolt/Tricks
Additional song notes:: The Weekday Mother and the Mother on Shabes

On album:: G-104(b) (Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Yiddish Classics/Peretz/Asch/Reisen/Manger/Kaganovski — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט יידישע קלאַסישע ווערק)
Track ID:: 35366
Vocal:: Greenhoyz-Turkov, Shura — גרינהויז־טורקאָוו, שורא
First line:: Az Yekhiel iz gevorn tsen yor alt hobn shoyn ale ayngezen...
First line (Yiddish):: אַז יכיל איז געוואָרן צען יאָר אַלט האָבן שוין אַלע אײַנגעזען...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 10:33

Y. L. Peretz: Di Keler-Shtub — די קעלער־שטוב

Genre:: Literary Origin/Fragment From Di Keler Shtub
Subject:: Neighbor/Melamud/Poverty/Money/Hope/Love/Shabos/Evil Temper
Additional song notes:: The Basement

On album:: G-104(b) (Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Yiddish Classics/Peretz/Asch/Reisen/Manger/Kaganovski — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט יידישע קלאַסישע ווערק)
Track ID:: 35367
Vocal:: Greenhoyz-Turkov, Shura — גרינהויז־טורקאָוו, שורא
Adaptation:: Turkov, Yitzkhak — טורקאָוו, יצחק
First line:: A groyer kelershtub, ful mit betn, freydele... Shloft shoyn lang,
First line (Yiddish):: אַ גרויער קעלער־שטוב, פֿול מיט בעטן, פֿריידעלע..שלאָפֿט שוין לאַנג,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 8:13

Itzik Manger: Mayn Geboyrn Vern — איציק מאַנגער: מײַן געבוירן ווערן

Genre:: Literary Origin. From Dos Bukh Fun Gan-Adn
Subject:: Birth/Difficulty/Shabos/Candles/Compassion/Precocious/Infant
Additional song notes:: On the Occurrence of My Birth/From The Book of Paradise

On album:: G-104(b) (Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Yiddish Classics/Peretz/Asch/Reisen/Manger/Kaganovski — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט יידישע קלאַסישע ווערק)
Track ID:: 35368
Vocal:: Greenhoyz-Turkov, Shura — גרינהויז־טורקאָוו, שורא
First line:: Mayn mame iz gangen shver tsu kind, zi hot geveynt, geshrign un gesheltn mayn..
First line (Yiddish):: די מאַמע איז געגאַנגען שווער צו קינד, זי האָט געוויינט, געשריגן און געשאָלטן..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 6:52

Efraim Kagonovski: Nokh A Mentsh — נאָך אַ מענטש

Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Birth
Additional song notes:: Another Person

On album:: G-104(b) (Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Yiddish Classics/Peretz/Asch/Reisen/Manger/Kaganovski — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט יידישע קלאַסישע ווערק)
Track ID:: 35369
Vocal:: Greenhoyz-Turkov, Shura — גרינהויז־טורקאָוו, שורא
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 9:14

Khanike Gelt (Aleichem) — חנוכּה געלט (עליכם)

On album:: A-003(l) (Elihu Tenenholtz / Holiday Stories by Sholom Aleichem — אליהו טענענהאָלץ \ יום־טוב מעשיות פֿון שלום עליכם)
Track ID:: 8074
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Vocal:: Tenenholtz, Elihu — טענענהאָלץ, אליהו
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Sholom Aleichem Definition Of Folksong

Author:: Freedman, Robert
Genre:: Debate/Letters
Subject:: Folksongs/Definition/Yoel Engel/Musicology
Origin:: Ephemera 50
Additional song notes:: Published in Yiddish Forward July 15, 1984

On album:: V0057 (Sholom Aleichem Yortsayt 90th — שלום עליכם יאָרצײַט 90סטן)
Track ID:: 33160
Vocal:: Freedman, Robert
First line:: In 1892 Sholom Aleichem wrote a poem titled "Shlof Mayn Kind"
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Mayn Familien Album — מײַן פֿאָמיליען אַלבום

Author:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Author:: Shulman, Khaim — שולמאַן, חיים
Genre:: Literary Origin/Monologue/Lament/Humor
Subject:: Birthday/Children/Anguish/Abandoned/Alone/Wives
Additional song notes:: My Family Album

On album:: D-005(e) (Lustig Un Lebedik Freylekh (Lebedov) Dzigan's Lakh Oytser — לוסטיג און לעבעדיק דזשיגאַנס לאַך אױצר)
Track ID:: 9850
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
First line:: Dos iz ma…eyn minut, ikh vel gibn a kuk arayn in di tsaytung, eyn minut, Suez,
First line (Yiddish):: דאָס איז מאַ... איין מינוט, איך וועל גיבן אַ קוק ארײַן אין די צײַטונג, איין..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologue/Humorous/Lament
Length:: 10:36

Mayn Gortn — מײַן גאָרטן

Author:: Bialik, Khaim Nakhman — ביאַליק, חיים נחמן
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Garden/Trees/Fruit/Food/Cards
Origin:: Bialik Lider 41

On album:: E-004(a) (Readings In Yiddish by Ya'akov Einstein — יעקב אײנשטײן לײנט שאַפֿונגען אין ייִדיש)
Track ID:: 9857
Vocal:: Eynshteyn, Yakov — אײנשטײן, יעקבֿ
First line:: Vilt ir efsher zayn a baln, onkukn mayn sheynem gortn,
First line (Yiddish):: װילט איר אפֿשר זײַן אַ בעלן, אָנקוקן מײַן שײנעם גאָרטן,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Mayn Zeyda — מײַן זײדע

On album:: M-003(a) (Itzik Manger Read by the Author — איציק מאַנגער לײנט איציק מאַנגער)
Track ID:: 10059
Author/Poetry Reading:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
First line:: Mayn zeyda der bal agole frun stoptshet shpant eyn di ferd.
First line:: מײַן זײדע דער בּעל עגלה פֿון סטאָפּטשעט שפּאַנט אײן די פֿער.
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: "Sonetn Far Mayn Bruder Nete"
Style:: Spoken Word

Oyb Nisht Nokh Hekher — אױב נישט נאָך העכער

Author:: Peretz, Yitskhok Leybush — פּרץ, יצחק לײבוש
Genre:: Literary Origin/Short Story
Subject:: Chasidim/Misnoged/Litvak/Slikhos
Origin:: Per Lip 175
Translation:: Per Lip 174

On album:: K-010(f) (The Best of Y.L. Peretz Read by Miriam Kressyn Volume 2)
Track ID:: 11805
Vocal:: Kressyn, Miriam — קרעסן, מיריאַם
First line:: Un der Nemirover flegt skikhos-tsayt, yedn frimorgn nelem...
First line (Yiddish):: און דער נעמיראָװער פֿלעגט סליחות-צײַט יעדן פֿרימאָרגן נעלם....
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Series "The New Yiddish Home Companion" "הױזפֿרײַנט נײַער "דער
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Neyle In Tsekhanovke — נעילה אין ציעכאַנאָווקע

Author:: Der Tunkler — דער טונקלער
Genre:: Literary Origin/Place/Humorous
Subject:: Yom Kippur/Neyle/Prayer/Requests/Occupations/Solemnity
Additional song notes:: Based on a motif by Peretz

On album:: B-047(c)2 (Joseph Buloff On Stage Cassette 2 — יוסף בולאָף אױף דער בינע קאַסעטע 1)
Track ID:: 11011
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: In der kleyne shulekhel iz arayngekumen a hintinken sheygets un ungeshteln…
First line (Yiddish):: אין דער קליינע שולעכעל איז אַרײַנגעקומען אַ הינטיקען שייעגעץ און אונגעשטעלן…
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Recorded live in Israel March 14, 1967
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologue
Length:: 11:59

Oyf Der Stantsie Gorshkovits (Heb) — אױף דער סטאַנציע גאָרקאָװיץ (עבֿרית)

On album:: R-012(a) (Yizkor Shammai Rosenblum — יזכּור שמאי רוזנבלום)
Track ID:: 11822
Author/Artist:: Rosenblum, Shami — רוזנבלום, שמאי
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word

Oyf Der Stantsie Kolomey — אױף דער סטאַנציע קאָלאָמײ

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Composer:: Stiman, Emma
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Railway Station/Place/Netherworld/GrandparentsVisitor/Poet
Origin:: Manger 326/Alb P-065(a)
Transliteration:: Alb P-065(a)
Translation:: Alb P-065(a)/Ephemera 1296
Additional song notes:: At The Kolomey Train Station / From "Demerung In Shpigl" דעמערונג אין שפּיגל The Darkening Mirror

On album:: M-003(a) (Itzik Manger Read by the Author — איציק מאַנגער לײנט איציק מאַנגער)
Track ID:: 11823
Author/Poetry Reading:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
First line:: Oyf der stantsie kolomey tsvishn a gantser eyde,shteyn gehoykerte shotns tsvey
First line (Yiddish):: אױף דער סטאַנציע קאָלאָמײ, צװישן אַ גאַנצער עדה, שטייען געהויקערטע שאָטנס צוויי
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: From "Demerung In Shpigl" "שפּיגל אין "דעמערונג
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Oyfn Geto Banhoyf (Heb) — אַױפֿן געטאָ באַנהױף (עבֿרית)

On album:: R-012(a) (Yizkor Shammai Rosenblum — יזכּור שמאי רוזנבלום)
Track ID:: 11846
Author/Artist:: Rosenblum, Shami — רוזנבלום, שמאי
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word

Milkhiks — מילכיקס

On album:: A-003(l) (Elihu Tenenholtz / Holiday Stories by Sholom Aleichem — אליהו טענענהאָלץ \ יום־טוב מעשיות פֿון שלום עליכם)
Track ID:: 10452
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Vocal:: Tenenholtz, Elihu — טענענהאָלץ, אליהו
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Mizmor Leyitskhak — מזמוֹר ליצחק

On album:: B-047(a) (Joseph Buloff (Recorded at Sholem Aleichem Club, Phila-1973) — יוסף בולאָװ (שלום עליכם קלוב קאָנצערט, פֿליאַדעלפֿיע - 1973)
Track ID:: 10608
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

My Son The Captain

Author:: Booker, Bob
Author:: Foster, George
Genre:: Humorous/Sketch
Subject:: Identity/Boats/Club/Social Mobility

On album:: W-012(b) (Bob Booker & George Foster Present You Don't Have To Be Jewish)
Track ID:: 10847
Author:: Booker, Bob & George Foster
Vocal:: Walker, Betty
Vocal:: Jacobi, Lou
Vocal:: Kannon, Jackie
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Comedy

Afn Sheydveg — אױפֿו שײדװעג

Also known as:: Oyfn Sheydveg
Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Biblical
Subject:: Ruth/Daughters/PartingNaomi
Origin:: Manager 275/Betsky 26
Translation:: Betsky 26
Additional song notes:: From cycle of poems dealing with the Book of Ruth.

On album:: M-003(a) (Itzik Manger Read by the Author — איציק מאַנגער לײנט איציק מאַנגער)
Track ID:: 11947
Vocal:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
First line:: Oyfn sheydveg zingt der zumervint: -- Di vegn zenen alt,
First line (Yiddish):: אױפֿן שײדװעג זינגט דער זומערװינט: -- די װעגן זענען אַלט,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Fonfivater Magid — דער פֿאָנפֿיװאַטער מגיד

On album:: S-003(b) (Maurice Schwartz)
Track ID:: 3119
Vocal:: Schwartz, Maurice
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Oy Allah Ikh Lig In Adama — אױ אלא איך ליג אין אדמה

Additional song notes:: Oh Allah, I Lie In The Earth

On album:: D-005(j) (Simon Dzigan a Untergeherter Telefon)
Track ID:: 11675
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Perlman, Max — פּערלמאַן, מאַקס
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

A Tepl Zup — אַ טעפּל זופּ

On album:: B-047(c)2 (Joseph Buloff On Stage Cassette 2 — יוסף בולאָף אױף דער בינע קאַסעטע 1)
Track ID:: 633
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Recorded live in Israel March 14, 1967
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

S'hot Malkele Der Karshenboym — ס'האָט מלכּהלע דער קאַרשענבױם

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Composer:: Alberstein, Chava — אַלבערשטײַן, חוה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Love
Subject:: Cherry Tree/Bloom/Poetry/Separation/Topics
Origin:: Manger 293/Alb A-001(n)
Translation:: Alb A-001(n)/Leftwich GP 561

On album:: M-003(a) (Itzik Manger Read by the Author — איציק מאַנגער לײנט איציק מאַנגער)
Track ID:: 13149
Vocal:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
First line:: S'hot, malkele, der karshenboym in gortn zikh tsiblit,
First line (Yiddish):: ס'האָט, מלכּהלע, דער קאַרשענבױם אין גאָרטן זיך ציבליט,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: From "Velv Zbarzher Shraybt Briv Tsu Malkele Der Sheyner"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Family Life

Genre:: Humor
Subject:: Family (Humorous)

On album:: 067l (Levenson, Sam / Family Life/ Kloles)
Track ID:: 37733
First line:: Today, we would like you to meet the Jewish family…
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Kloles — קללות

Genre:: Humor
Subject:: Yiddish Imprecations

On album:: 067l (Levenson, Sam / Family Life/ Kloles)
Track ID:: 37734
First line:: How often would my kind sweet mother would pinch my little cheek and whisper…
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

A Tourist In Yisroel — אַ טוריסט אין ישׂראל

On album:: A-007(a) (Treasures Of Our People Chayele Ash/ Ari and Avrom Fuhrman — פֿון אונדזערע אוצרות חיהלע אַש \ ארי און אַבֿרהם פֿורמאַן)
Track ID:: 642
Vocal:: Fuhrman, Avrom — פֿורמאַן, אַבֿרהם
Vocal:: Ash, Chayele — אַש, חיהלע
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Yerusholaim (Koller) — ירושלים (קאָלער)

Author:: Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Genre:: Place/Zionist/Lament
Subject:: Jerusalem/Winter/Cold/Exile/Wandering/Rootless
Music:: Bugatch 17

On album:: K-116(a)1 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 1)
Track ID:: 35452
Vocal:: Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Spoken Word/Explanation
Length:: 1:39

Rede Fun "Eltestn Der Yidn (Heb) — רעדע פֿון "עלטעסטן דער ייִדן" (עבֿרית)

On album:: R-012(a) (Yizkor Shammai Rosenblum — יזכּור שמאי רוזנבלום)
Track ID:: 12700
Author/Artist:: Rosenblum, Shami — רוזנבלום, שמאי
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word

Rash Un Tumel Fun A Geto Gas (Heb) — רעש אןם טומעל פֿון אַ געטאָ גאָס (עבֿר)

On album:: R-012(a) (Yizkor Shammai Rosenblum — יזכּור שמאי רוזנבלום)
Track ID:: 12634
Author/Artist:: Rosenblum, Shami — רוזנבלום, שמאי
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word

Tevye Mit Zayn Tekhter — טבֿיה מיט זײַן טעכטער

Also known as:: Tevye And His Daughters
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Tevye/Daughters

On album:: A-003(o) (Tevya And His Daughters)
Track ID:: 14939
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Composer:: Hovey, Serge
Artist:: Kellin, Mike
Artist:: Da Silva, Howard, director
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: First produced at Caregie Hall Playhouse Sept 16, 1957
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Tevye Fort Keyn Erets Yisroel — טבֿיה פֿאָרט קײן ארץ ישׂראל

On album:: A-003(m)
Track ID:: 14941
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Artist:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Track comment:: From series of five tapes - tape 4, side A and B
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Tevye Mit Zayn Tekhter — טבֿיה מיט זײַן טעכטער

Also known as:: Tevye And His Daughters
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Tevye/Daughters

On album:: B-047(c)1 (Joseph Buloff On Stage Cassette 1 — יוסף בולאָף אױף דער בינע קאַסעטע 1)
Track ID:: 14942
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Recorded live in Israel March 14, 1967
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 20:10

Keep on Walking (Video)

Genre:: Documentary/Biography
Subject:: Faith/Equmenical/Ritual/Music/Rock/Spiritual/Gospel

On album:: V0262 (Keep On Walking/Joshua Nelson: The Jewish Gospel Singer (Video))
Track ID:: 36935
First line:: I'm like the Ku Klux Klan's worst nightmare.
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Narration
Length:: 53:00

Sermonic Remarks (Eng)

On album:: D-008(e) (Congregation Adath Jeshurun 125th Anniversary Service Celeb)
Track ID:: 13330
Vocal:: Rosenbloom, Rabbi Seymour
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Sheyiboneh Beys Hamikdosh (Fisher) — שיבּנה בּית המקדש (פֿישער)

Author:: Fisher, Shmuel — פֿישער, שמואל
Genre:: Humorous

On album:: F-008(a) (Shmuel Fisher Israeli Actor, Humorist Nice Times — שמואל פֿישער ישׂראח אַקטאָר, הומאָאיסט שײנע צײַטן)
Track ID:: 13668
Author/Artist:: Fisher, Shmuel — פֿישער, שמואל
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Simkhas Toyre (Liessin) — שׂימחת תּורה (ליעסין)

Author:: Liessin, Avrom — ליעסין, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Holiday/Festival/Simphas Toyre/Soldier/Conscript/Veteran

On album:: N-001(a) (Noah Nachbush Gems of Yiddish — נח נאַכבוש)
Track ID:: 14447
Artist:: Nachbush, Noah — נאַכבוש, נח
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologue

Shprintse — שפּרינצע

On album:: A-003(m)
Track ID:: 14239
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Artist:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Track comment:: From series of five tapes - tape 4, side A
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Rhapsody Chassidic — חסידישע ראַפּסאָדיע

Composer:: Low, Leo — ליאָװ (משה לײב), לעאָ
Genre:: Khasidic/Classical
Subject:: Joy/Faith

On album:: N-046(d) (Faszination Muzik/ Tabea Zommerman (Viola) and Jascha Nemstov (Piano) play Chamber Music)
Track ID:: 37538
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Shiddah Un Kuziba (Yid) — שידה און כּוסיבאַ

On album:: S-013(a) (Isaac Bashevis Singer Reads In Yiddish — יצחק באַשעװיס סינגער)
Track ID:: 13755
Author/Vocal:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Track comment:: Yid version published in "Gimpel The Fool and Other Stories"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Tekelekh — טעקעלעך

Author:: Shtaynbarg, Eliezer — שטײַנבאַרג, אליעזר
Genre:: Literary Origin/Inanimate Object/Toy/Fable
Subject:: Dolls/Gossip/Conversation/Clock/Books/Substance/Fate
Origin:: Shtaynbarg Fables 93/Shtaybarg Mesholim 281
Translation:: Shtaynbarg Fables 92

On album:: T-014(a) (Sidi Tahl Items From Her Concert Programmes)
Track ID:: 14881
Vocal:: Tal, Sidi — טאַל, סידי
First line:: Lign tekelekh tsvey, oyf eyn gelegerl, un zey plaplen...
First line (Yiddish):: ליגן טעקעלעך צװײ, אױף אײן געלעגערל, און זײַ פּלאַפּלען...
Track comment:: Recorded under title "Dolls, A Fable"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Avrom Reisen: Di Genite Kale — די געניטע כּלה

Genre:: Literary Origin/Humor
Subject:: Parents/Daughter/Memory/Matchmakers/Attempts/Generations
Additional song notes:: The Experienced Bride

On album:: G-104(b) (Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Yiddish Classics/Peretz/Asch/Reisen/Manger/Kaganovski — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט יידישע קלאַסישע ווערק)
Track ID:: 35370
Vocal:: Greenhoyz-Turkov, Shura — גרינהויז־טורקאָוו, שורא
First line:: Katie iz gekumen frun der arbet, a freylikher un zeyer gut oysgeleygt,
First line (Yiddish):: קייטי איז געקומען פֿון דער אַרבעט, אַ פֿרייליכער און זייער גוט אויסגעלעגט,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 7:54

Hirshn Baym Yam Suf — הירשן בײַם ים םוף

Author:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Deer/Read Sea
Origin:: Alb S-016(a)
Translation:: Penguin YID 688/Sutz 223
Additional song notes:: Deer At The Red Sea

On album:: S-016(a) (The Poetry of Abraham Sutzkever, The Vilno Poet)
Track ID:: 6618
Vocal:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Der sunfargang hot zikh mit farekshnt mit hoze tsu blaybn...
First line (Yiddish):: דער זונפֿאַרגאַנג האָט זיך מיט פֿאַרעקשנט מיט העזה צו בלײַבן אין...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Text and annotations with album notes- Ruth Wisse, annotat
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Hayntike Kinder — הײַנטיקע קינדער

On album:: A-003(m)
Track ID:: 6334
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Artist:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Track comment:: From series of five tapes - tape 2, side A and B
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Un Azoy Zolstu Redn Tsum Yosem — און אַזױ זאָלסטו רעדן צום יתום

Author:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Holocaust
Origin:: Alb S-016(a)
Additional song notes:: This is the way to talk to the orphan

On album:: S-016(a) (The Poetry of Abraham Sutzkever, The Vilno Poet)
Track ID:: 15887
Vocal:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Un azoy zolstu redn tsum yusem, ven yener vet heybn...
First line (Yiddish):: און אַזױ זאָלסטו רעדן צום יתום, װען יענער װעט הײבן...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Text and annotations with album notes- Ruth Wisse, annotat
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

The Man Who Came Back (Yid) — דער צוריקגעשריגענער

On album:: xS-013(a)
Track ID:: 15133
Author/Vocal:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
First line (Yiddish):: "The Spinoza of Market Street" Eng transl published in
Track comment:: Yid version published in "Gimpel The Fool and Other Stories"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Ven Ikh Bin Rotshild (Aleichem) — װען איך בין ראָטשילד (עליכם)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous/Lament
Subject:: Poverty/Rich/Poor/Wishes/War/Peace
Translation:: Graf 153/Alb A-003(c)

On album:: K-008(a) (Ida Kaminska and her Yiddish State Theatre of Poland)
Track ID:: 16391
Vocal:: Kaminska, Ida — קאַמינסקע, אידאַ
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Dramatic

Ven Ikh Bin Rotshild (Aleichem) — װען איך בין ראָטשילד (עליכם)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous/Lament
Subject:: Poverty/Rich/Poor/Wishes/War/Peace
Translation:: Graf 153/Alb A-003(c)

On album:: N-001(a) (Noah Nachbush Gems of Yiddish — נח נאַכבוש)
Track ID:: 16392
Vocal:: Nachbush, Noah — נאַכבוש, נח
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Dramatic

Ven Ikh Bin Rotshild (Aleichem) — װען איך בין ראָטשילד (עליכם)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous/Lament
Subject:: Poverty/Rich/Poor/Wishes/War/Peace
Translation:: Graf 153/Alb A-003(c)

On album:: A-003(c) (Sholom Aleichem If I Were Rothschild Jewish Folk Songs)
Track ID:: 16393
Vocal:: Kaminska, Ida — קאַמינסקע, אידאַ
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Dramatic

Ven Ikh Bin Rotshild (Aleichem) — װען איך בין ראָטשילד (עליכם)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous/Lament
Subject:: Poverty/Rich/Poor/Wishes/War/Peace
Translation:: Graf 153/Alb A-003(c)

On album:: C-006(a) (Chanson Yiddish Si J'Etais Rothschild de Sholem Aleichem — ייִדישע לידער)
Track ID:: 16394
Vocal:: Kaminska, Ida — קאַמינסקע, אידאַ
Track comment:: Same recording as on A-03(c)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Dramatic

Ven Ikh Bin Rotshild (Aleichem) — װען איך בין ראָטשילד (עליכם)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous/Lament
Subject:: Poverty/Rich/Poor/Wishes/War/Peace
Translation:: Graf 153/Alb A-003(c)

On album:: A-003(p) (Sholom Aleichem Readings A Recital by Jack Newman — לכּבֿוד יום-טובֿ)
Track ID:: 16395
Vocal:: Newman, Jack — ניומאַן, יעקבֿ
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Dramatic

Ven Kh'volt Nit Zayn Mit Dir... — װען כ'װאָלט ניט זײַן מיט דיר בײַנאַנד

Author:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Israel/Holocaust
Origin:: Alb S-016(a)
Additional song notes:: See Heskes 1, Entry 756 respecing sheet music.

On album:: S-016(a) (The Poetry of Abraham Sutzkever, The Vilno Poet)
Track ID:: 16411
Vocal:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Ven kh'volt nit zayn mit dir baynand, nit otemen dos glik...
First line (Yiddish):: װען כ'װאָלט ניט זײַן מיט דיר בײַנאַנד, ניט אָטעמאַן דאָס גליק...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Text and annotations with album notes- Ruth Wisse, annotat
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Tsvey Moyshes In Eyn Miklat — צװײ משה'עס אין אײן מקלט

On album:: D-005(j) (Simon Dzigan a Untergeherter Telefon)
Track ID:: 15735
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Perlman, Max — פּערלמאַן, מאַקס
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Tsvey Shalokhmonesn — צװײ שלחמנותן

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Holiday
Subject:: Purim/Servant Girls/Shalekhmones/Food/Baked Goods

On album:: T-023(a) (Those Were The Days)
Track ID:: 15737
Vocal:: Wilner, Lori
Vocal:: Reissa, Eleanor
Track comment:: From "Those Were The Days"
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Tsvey Shalokhmonesn (Part 1) — צװײ שלחמנותן (טײל 1)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Holiday
Song comment:: Purim/Servant Girls/Shalekhmones/Food/Baked Goods

On album:: B-003(q) (Sidor Belarsky Purim Festival in Town Hall — לכּבוד יום טוב)
Track ID:: 15738
Vocal:: Goldstein, Charlotte, reading — גאָלדשטײן, שאַרלאָט
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Tsvey Shalokhmonesn (Part 2) — צװײ שלחמנותן (טײל 2)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Holiday
Subject:: Purim/Servant Girls/Shalekhmones/Food/Baked Goods

On album:: B-003(q) (Sidor Belarsky Purim Festival in Town Hall — לכּבוד יום טוב)
Track ID:: 15739
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Artist:: Goldstein, Charlotte, reading — גאָלדשטײן, שאַרלאָט
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Tsvey Yidn Khapn Fish — צװײ ייִדן כאַפּן פֿיש

On album:: D-005(k) (S. Dzigans Lach Bombes — ש. דזיגאַנד לאַך באָמבעס)
Track ID:: 15748
Author:: Nudelman, Moshe — נודעלמאַן, משה
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Telner, A. — טעלנער, אַ.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Undzere In Amerika — אונדזערע אין אַמעריקאַ

Author:: Nudelman, Moshe — נודעלמאַן, משה
Genre:: Theater/Skit/Humorous/
Subject:: America/Israeli Emigres/Yordim
Additional song notes:: Ours (Our People) In America

On album:: D-005(v) (Dzigan (SD 6) — דזשיגאַן)
Track ID:: 15966
Author:: Nudelman, Moshe — נודעלמאַן, משה
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Untergeherter Telefon — אונטערגעvערטער טעלעפֿאָן

On album:: D-005(j) (Simon Dzigan a Untergeherter Telefon)
Track ID:: 16046
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Perlman, Max — פּערלמאַן, מאַקס
Track comment:: Subtitle - Cairo, Rabat - Aman
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Vakh Lakh Lakis — װאַך לאַך לאַקיס

On album:: A-003(m)
Track ID:: 16205
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Artist:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Track comment:: From series of five tapes - tape 5, side B
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Yidn Forn Keyn Yisroel — ייִדן פֿאָרן קײן ישׂראל

On album:: D-005(p) (S. Dzigan-Lakht Mit Mir Program Fun Sha Sha Der Sholom Geyt — ש. דזשיגאַן לאַכט מיט מיר פּראָגראַם פֿון "שאַ שאַ דער שלום גײט)
Track ID:: 17547
Author/Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Composer:: Kon, Henekh — קאָן, הענעך
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Humorous/Spoken Word

Yidn Gibn Iber Di Rede...(Heb) — ייִדן גיבן איבער די רעדע...(עבֿרית)

On album:: R-012(a) (Yizkor Shammai Rosenblum — יזכּור שמאי רוזנבלום)
Track ID:: 17548
Author/Artist:: Rosenblum, Shami — רוזנבלום, שמאי
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Bitnik — דער ביטניק

On album:: D-005(f) (Shimon Dzigan M'lakht A Lebn — שמיון דזשיגאַן מ'לאַכט אַ לעבן)
Track ID:: 3083
Author/Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Bloy Vayser Telefon — דער בלױ װײַסער טעלעפֿאָן

On album:: D-005(j) (Simon Dzigan a Untergeherter Telefon)
Track ID:: 3084
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Perlman, Max — פּערלמאַן, מאַקס
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Bratslaver Tsu Zayn Soyfer — דער בראַצלאַװער צו זײן סופֿר

On album:: O-004(b) (Shabos Yom Tovdike Yidn Khaim Ostrovsky — שבּת יום טובֿדיקע ייִדן חיים אָסטראָװסקי)
Track ID:: 3088
Author:: Glatshteyn, Yakov — גלאַטשטײַן, יעקבֿ,
Artist:: Ostrovsky, Khaim — אָסטראָװסקי, חיים
Track comment:: Recorded under title "Der Bratzlaver"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Bris — דער בּרית

On album:: Y-005(c) (T'shuva Songs by Yom Tov Ehrlich — תּשוּבה רעקאָרד פֿון יום טובֿ עהרליך)
Track ID:: 3089
Author/Composer/Vocal:: Ehrlich, Yom Tov — עהרליך, יוֹם טוֹב
First line:: Di nakht iz gekumen, der tog iz avek, di gasn fun moskva...
First line (Yiddish):: די נאַכט איז געקומען, דער טאָג איז אַװעק, די גאַסן פֿון מאָסקװאַ...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Album notes indicate a true strange story in USSR.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Briv Treger — דער בריװ טרעגער

On album:: D-005(g) (Dzigan et Szumacher Sketchs Et Monologues)
Track ID:: 3091
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/ Humorous

Der Briv Treger — דער בריװ טרעגער

On album:: D-005(w) (Dzigan et Szumacher (OS14))
Track ID:: 3092
Author/Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Yiddishe Gesheftn — ייִדישע געשײפֿטן

On album:: D-005(p) (S. Dzigan-Lakht Mit Mir Program Fun Sha Sha Der Sholom Geyt — ש. דזשיגאַן לאַכט מיט מיר פּראָגראַם פֿון "שאַ שאַ דער שלום גײט)
Track ID:: 17499
Author/Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Humorous/Spoken Word

Der Daytsh — דער דײַטש

On album:: A-003(b) (Sholom Aleichem Read in Yiddish by Gustave Berger)
Track ID:: 3094
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Artist:: Berger, Gustav — בערגער, גוסטאַװ
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Text and translation by Isaiah Sheffer with album notes
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Dibuk (Excerpt) — דער דיבּוק (אױסצוג)

Related information in folder 881:

Comments:: 1. Article in Forward of December 19, 2008 by Leonard Fein titled "Yesterday We Dreamt of a Better Tomorrow quoting a translated quatrain from Dos Naye Lid and

On album:: K-008(a) (Ida Kaminska and her Yiddish State Theatre of Poland)
Track ID:: 3095
Author:: S. Ansky — ש. אַנסקי
Artist:: Kaminska, Ida — קאַמינסקע, אידאַ
Artist:: Kaminska, Ruth — קאַמינסקאַ, רחל
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Fragment from second act.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Hemder — העמדער

Author:: Shtaynbarg, Eliezer — שטײַנבאַרג, אליעזר
Genre:: Literary Origin/Inanimate Object/Fable
Subject:: Shirts/Converstaion/Politics/Laundry/Complaints/Clothesline
Origin:: Shtaybarg Mesholim 85

On album:: G-012(a) (Herts Grosbard Readings....Eliesar Steinberg....A. Lutsky — הערץ גראָסבאַרד װאָרט קאָנצערט אַליעזר שטײנבאָרג... אַ לוצקי)
Track ID:: 19242
Artist:: Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ
First line:: Hangn hemder oyf a shtrik, un men hoydet zikh un men...
First line (Yiddish):: הענגן הימדער אױף אַ שטריק, און מען הױדעט זיך און מען שױדעט..
Track comment:: Fables by Eliezer Steinbarg שטײנבערג אלייעזר פֿון משלים
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Khalef Un Di Zeg — דער חלף און די זעג

Author:: Shtaynbarg, Eliezer — שטײַנבאַרג, אליעזר
Genre:: Literary Origin/Fable
Subject:: Tool/Inanimate Object/Slaughter Knife/Saw/Flaws/Teeth/Work
Origin:: Shtaynberg Fables 164/Shtaybarg Mesholim 29
Translation:: Shtaynberg Fables 165

On album:: G-012(a) (Herts Grosbard Readings....Eliesar Steinberg....A. Lutsky — הערץ גראָסבאַרד װאָרט קאָנצערט אַליעזר שטײנבאָרג... אַ לוצקי)
Track ID:: 19243
Artist:: Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ
First line:: S'treft a mol zikh oykhet az a shaytl holts tsuzegn muz a...
First line (Yiddish):: ס'טרעפֿט אַ מאָל זיך אױכעט אַז אַ שײַטל האָלץ צוזעגן מוז אַ שוחט,
Track comment:: Fables by Eliezer Steinbarg שטײנבערג אלייעזר פֿון משלים
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Harbst (Manger)/ Dos Dozike Lid..(Levin) — האַרבסט (מאַנגער)\ דאָס דאָזיקע ליד...(לעווין)

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Composer:: Levin, Leibu — לעװין, לײבו
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Autumn/Season/SadnessSwallows/Meloncholy/Priest/Dreams
Origin:: Manger 353/Alb L-066(b)
Transliteration:: Alb L-066(b)
Translation:: Alb L-066(b)
Additional song notes:: Autumn

On album:: G-012(c) (Herts Grosbard 3 Readings... Jacob Glatstein & Itzak Manger — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 4\װאָרט קאָנצערט איציק מאַנגער און יעקבֿ גלאַטשטײן)
Track ID:: 19258
Vocal:: Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ
First line:: Dos dozike Lid fun shpetn harbst darf men zingen mit troyerike oygn...,
First line (Yiddish):: דאָס דאָזיקע ליד פֿון שפּעטן האַרבסט דאָרף מען זינגען מיט טרויעריקע אויגן
Track comment:: Lider un Baladn fun Itsik Manger
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Yosl Loksh Fun Khelem — יאָסל לאָקש פֿון כעלעם

Author:: Glatshteyn, Yakov — גלאַטשטײַן, יעקבֿ,
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken
Additional song notes:: Yosl Luksh From Chelm

On album:: R-017(a) (Readings of Yiddish Literature Itzhak Rothblum — יצחק ראָטבלום פֿאָרלעזונגען און רעציטאַציעס פֿון דער ייִדישער...)
Track ID:: 17831
Author:: Glatshteyn, Yakov — גלאַטשטײַן, יעקבֿ,
Artist:: Rothblum, Itskhak — ראָטבלום, יצחק
First line:: Ver kon fartrogn a yungn yosems geveyn? Oder di trern fun...
First line (Yiddish):: װער קען פֿאַרטראָגן אַ יונגן יתומס געװײן? אָדער די טרערן פֿון..
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Yosele Kumt Aheym — יאָסעלע קומט אַהײם

On album:: B-012(i) (A Wedding In Shtetl Lillian Lux Peseach & Mike Burstein — אַ חתונה אין שטעטל ליליאַן לוקס פּסח בורסטײן מײַק בורשטײן)
Track ID:: 17791
Author:: Wohl, Herman — װאָל, הערמאַן
Composer:: Segal, William — װיליאַם סיגאַל
Vocal:: Burstein, Peysekhke — בורשטײַן, פּסחקע
Vocal:: Burstein, Mike — בורשטײַן, מײַק
Vocal:: Lux, Lillian — לוקס, ליליאַן
Track comment:: From "A Khasene In Shtetl" Dialogue
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Sketch

Yom Tov — יום-טובֿ

Also known as:: Holiday
Author:: Leivick, Halper — לײװיק, האַלפּער
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Father/Child/Hoiday/Peysekh/Security/Hand/Memory/Shtetl
Origin:: Alb G-019(a)/Alb B-036(a)
Transliteration:: Alb G-019(a)
Translation:: Alb G-019(a)/Alb B-036(a)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33418
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
English Adaptation:: Harshav, Benjamin
English Adaptation:: Harshav, Barbara
First line:: My father leads me by the hand to synagogue, the day is sunny with dawn
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:47

Hora Mica {C. Issac]

Genre:: Instrumental/Klezmer

On album:: L-109(b) (London Klezmer Quartet / Ilana Cravitz/ Calling)
Track ID:: 43220
Perfomer:: London Klezmer Quartet
Style:: Instrumental/Klezmer/Hora
Length:: 1:57

Yud — יוד

Author:: Broderson, Moyshe — בראָדערזאָן, משה
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Letter/Symbol/Inportance/Wandering/Sorrow/Ten/Persecution
Origin:: Sh Sh 397
Translation:: Sh Sh 396
Additional song notes:: Fragment from the Poem "Yud"

On album:: N-001(a) (Noah Nachbush Gems of Yiddish — נח נאַכבוש)
Track ID:: 17878
Vocal:: Nachbush, Noah — נאַכבוש, נח
First line:: Der nomen mayne is der shtilster fun ale oysyes,
First line (Yiddish):: דער נאָמען מײַנע איז דער שטילסטער פֿון אַלע אותיות,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

A Tfile (Shazar) — אַ תפֿילה (שזר)

Author:: Shazar, Zalman — שאַזאַר, זלמן
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Israel/Unity/Prayer
Origin:: Alb G-019(a)
Transliteration:: Alb G-019(a)
Translation:: Alb G-019(a)

On album:: G-019(a) (I Love Yiddish Emmanuel S. Goldsmith — איך האָב ליב ייִדיש)
Track ID:: 20014
Vocal:: Goldsmith, Emmanuel S.
First line:: Trogt zikh itst vider fun harts vi fun sider, di tfile...
First line (Yiddish):: טראָגט זיך איצט װידער פֿון האַרץ װי פֿון סידור, די תפֿילה...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Di Balade Fun Dem Shnirl Shtern — די באַלאַדע פֿון דעם שנירל שטערן

On album:: G-012(c) (Herts Grosbard 3 Readings... Jacob Glatstein & Itzak Manger — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 4\װאָרט קאָנצערט איציק מאַנגער און יעקבֿ גלאַטשטײן)
Track ID:: 19262
Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Vocal:: Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ
First line:: Raboysay, ikh vel aykh zingen a lid, dos lid funem...
First line (Yiddish):: רבותי, איך װעל אַײַף זינגען אַ ליד, דאָס ליד פֿונעם טרױעריקן גליק
Track comment:: Lider un Baladn fun Itsik Manger
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Tsi Veystu Ver Der Volkn Iz — צי װײסטו װער דער װאָלקן איז

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Composer:: Levin, Leibu — לעװין, לײבו
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Cloud/Disguise/Bird/Companion/MeetingWanderer/Decay/Revival
Origin:: CD B-012(t)/Manger 148/Levin L 33/Levin L WM 68/Alb P-065(a)
Transliteration:: CD B-012(t)/Levin L 33/Levin L WM 68/Alb P-065(a)
Translation:: Jaffe 32/Levin L WM 68/Alb P-065(a)
Music:: Levin L 33/Levin L WM 69
Additional song notes:: From "Lamtern In Vint"

On album:: G-012(c) (Herts Grosbard 3 Readings... Jacob Glatstein & Itzak Manger — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 4\װאָרט קאָנצערט איציק מאַנגער און יעקבֿ גלאַטשטײן)
Track ID:: 19263
Vocal:: Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ
First line:: Tsi veystu ver der volkn iz? S'iz der zelber vanderer vos iz geven du yener vokh
First line (Yiddish):: צי װײסטו װער דער װאָלקן איז? ס'איז דער זעלבער װאַנדערער, וואָס איז געווען...
Track comment:: Lider un Baladn fun Itsik Manger
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Mayn Tate Mame Shprakh — מײַן טאַטע־מאַמע־שפּראַך

Author:: Glatshteyn, Yakov — גלאַטשטײַן, יעקבֿ,
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Language/Identity/Memory/Khasidm
Origin:: Sh Sh 441
Translation:: Sh Sh 440
Additional song notes:: My Father-Mother-Languish

On album:: G-012(c) (Herts Grosbard 3 Readings... Jacob Glatstein & Itzak Manger — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 4\װאָרט קאָנצערט איציק מאַנגער און יעקבֿ גלאַטשטײן)
Track ID:: 19264
Vocal:: Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ
First line:: Der blitslum fun tatns gut vokh nokh di letste...
First line (Yiddish):: דער בליצלום פֿון טאַטנס גוט װאָך נאָך די ליצטע...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

A Yidishe Kroyn — אַייִדישע קרױן

On album:: G-012(c) (Herts Grosbard 3 Readings... Jacob Glatstein & Itzak Manger — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 4\װאָרט קאָנצערט איציק מאַנגער און יעקבֿ גלאַטשטײן)
Track ID:: 19265
Author:: Glatshteyn, Yakov — גלאַטשטײַן, יעקבֿ,
Vocal:: Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ
First line:: Ven mayn tate iz alt gevorn fertsik yor hot er ungeton di...
First line (Yiddish):: װען מײַן טאַטע איז אַלט געװאָרן פֿערציק יאָר האָט ער אונגעטאָן די...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Nisht Di Meysim Loybn Got — נישט די מתים לױבן גאָט

On album:: G-012(c) (Herts Grosbard 3 Readings... Jacob Glatstein & Itzak Manger — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 4\װאָרט קאָנצערט איציק מאַנגער און יעקבֿ גלאַטשטײן)
Track ID:: 19266
Author:: Glatshteyn, Yakov — גלאַטשטײַן, יעקבֿ,
Vocal:: Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ
First line:: Di toyre hobn mir mekable geven baym sinai, un in lublin...
First line (Yiddish):: די תּוֹרה האָבן מיר מקבל געװען בײַם סיני, און אין לובלין...
Track comment:: Translat - Glat Whit 68 & Glat Blum 48
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Bratslaver Tsu Zayn Soyfer — דער בראַצלאַװער צו זײן סופֿר

On album:: G-012(c) (Herts Grosbard 3 Readings... Jacob Glatstein & Itzak Manger — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 4\װאָרט קאָנצערט איציק מאַנגער און יעקבֿ גלאַטשטײן)
Track ID:: 19267
Author:: Glatshteyn, Yakov — גלאַטשטײַן, יעקבֿ,
Vocal:: Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ
First line:: Nusn, davai haynt nisht trakhtn, host shoyn a mol gezen...
First line (Yiddish):: נתן, דאַװאַי הײַנט נישט טראַכטן, האָסט שױן אַ מאָל געזען אַזאַ װעלט,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Shoyn Eyn Mol A Sukeh — שױן אײן מאָל אַ סוכּה

Also known as:: What A Suke
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Sukkos/Suke

On album:: A-003(e) (Stories by Sholom Aleichem in Honor of Jewish Holidays Told by I. (Tsuny Rymer) — מיט שלום עליכמען אויף יום־טובֿ)
Track ID:: 14177
Vocal:: Rhymer, I. — רײמער, י.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Berditshever Tramvay — בערדיטשעװער טראַמװײַ

On album:: G-012(f) (Herts Grosbard 6 Readings from stories...by Sholem Aleichem — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 6 װאָרט קאָנצערט מעשׂיות...פֿון שלום אליכם)
Track ID:: 19275
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Artist:: Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ
First line:: Ungekumen bin ikh keyn berditshev mit der ban.
First line (Yiddish):: אונגעקומען בין איך קײן בערדיטשעװ מיט דער באַן.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Zumer Ovnt Demert — דער זומער אָװנט דעמערט

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Composer:: Alberstein, Chava — אַלבערשטײַן, חוה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Love
Subject:: Separation/Longing/Gypsy/Fortunteller/Deceit/Belief
Origin:: Manger 301/Alb A-001(n)
Translation:: Alb A-001(n)

On album:: G-012(i) (Herts Grosbard 9 Readings Velvl Zbarzer...by Itsik Manger — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 9 װאָרט קאָנצערט װעלװל זבאַרזשער..איציק מאַנגער)
Track ID:: 19303
Vocal:: Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ
First line:: Der zumer ovnt demert, feygl zingen -- tri li li
First line (Yiddish):: דער זומער אָװנט דעמערט, פֿײגל זינגען -- טרי לי לי
Track comment:: From- Velvl Zbarzer Shraybt Briv Tsu Malkele Di Sheyne
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Ven Ikh Bin Rotshild (Aleichem) — װען איך בין ראָטשילד (עליכם)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous/Lament
Subject:: Poverty/Rich/Poor/Wishes/War/Peace
Translation:: Graf 153/Alb A-003(c)

On album:: G-012(f) (Herts Grosbard 6 Readings from stories...by Sholem Aleichem — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 6 װאָרט קאָנצערט מעשׂיות...פֿון שלום אליכם)
Track ID:: 19306
Vocal:: Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ
First line:: Beys di rebitsin hot eyn mol in a donershtik gemont oyf...
First line (Yiddish):: בײַס די רביצין האָט אײן מאָל אין אַ דאָנערשטיק געמאָנט אױף שבת...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Dramatic

S'hot Malkele Der Karshenboym — ס'האָט מלכּהלע דער קאַרשענבױם

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Composer:: Alberstein, Chava — אַלבערשטײַן, חוה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Love
Subject:: Cherry Tree/Bloom/Poetry/Separation/Topics
Origin:: Manger 293/Alb A-001(n)
Translation:: Alb A-001(n)/Leftwich GP 561

On album:: G-012(i) (Herts Grosbard 9 Readings Velvl Zbarzer...by Itsik Manger — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 9 װאָרט קאָנצערט װעלװל זבאַרזשער..איציק מאַנגער)
Track ID:: 19299
Vocal:: Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ
First line:: S'hot, malkele, der karshenboym in gortn zikh tsiblit,
First line (Yiddish):: ס'האָט, מלכּהלע, דער קאַרשענבױם אין גאָרטן זיך ציבליט,
Track comment:: From- Velvl Zbarzer Shraybt Briv Tsu Malkele Di Sheyne
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Di Balade Fun Di Shabos Likht — די באַלאַדע פֿון די שבּת ליכט

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Composer:: Beer, Helen
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Monk/Inquisition/Conversion/Faith/Identity/Fire/Martyrdom
Origin:: Alb M-003(i)/Alb G-019(a)/Manger 3
Transliteration:: Alb M-003(i)/Alb G-019(a)
Translation:: Alb M-003(i)/Alb G-019(a)

On album:: G-019(a) (I Love Yiddish Emmanuel S. Goldsmith — איך האָב ליב ייִדיש)
Track ID:: 19990
Vocal:: Goldsmith, Emmanuel S.
First line:: Shteyt der monakh in fistern tsel un dayn oygn brenen,
First line (Yiddish):: שטײט דער מאָנאַך אין פֿינסטערן צעל און זײַנע אױגן ברענען --
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Eshkol, Levi

On album:: G-011(a) (The Generations of Israel)
Track ID:: 19240
Artist:: Eshkol, Levi
First line:: My very, very good friends...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: The Generations of Israel - From 1948 to 1968
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Ikh Der Trubadur — איך דער טרובאַדור

On album:: G-012(c) (Herts Grosbard 3 Readings... Jacob Glatstein & Itzak Manger — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 4\װאָרט קאָנצערט איציק מאַנגער און יעקבֿ גלאַטשטײן)
Track ID:: 19259
Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Vocal:: Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ
First line:: Ikh der trubadur, der vint in di hor, mir shteyen baym...
First line (Yiddish):: איך דער טרופּאַדור, דער װינט אין די האָר, מיר דטײען בײַם...
Track comment:: Lider un Baladn fun Itsik Manger
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Sankt Besht — סאַנקט בעש"ט

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Bal Shem/Compassion/Night/Dream/Child
Origin:: Manger 109
Transliteration:: Betsky 19/Ephemera 1563
Translation:: Harshav 580/Ephemera 1563
Additional song notes:: From "Lamtern In Vint" (Lanterns in the Wind)

On album:: G-012(c) (Herts Grosbard 3 Readings... Jacob Glatstein & Itzak Manger — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 4\װאָרט קאָנצערט איציק מאַנגער און יעקבֿ גלאַטשטײן)
Track ID:: 19260
Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Vocal:: Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ
First line:: Zitst der bal shem kegn mitn nakht in zayn kheyder...
First line (Yiddish):: זיצט דער בעל שם קעגן מיטן נאַכט אין זײַן חדר מיוחד און ער...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Di Balade Fun Dem Yid Vos Iz... — די באַלאַדע פֿון דים ייִד װאָס איז...

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק

On album:: G-012(c) (Herts Grosbard 3 Readings... Jacob Glatstein & Itzak Manger — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 4\װאָרט קאָנצערט איציק מאַנגער און יעקבֿ גלאַטשטײן)
Track ID:: 19261
Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Vocal:: Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ
First line:: Knakt mitn beytshl drey mol der yid: "vyo, ferdelekh, vyo!"
First line (Yiddish):: קנאַקט מיטן בײטשל דרײַ מאָל דער ייִד: "װיאָ, פֿערדעלעך, װיאָ!"
Track comment:: Lider un Baladn fun Itsik Manger
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Sholem Aleykem Boiberik Recitive — שלוֹם עליכם בױבעריק רעטשיטאַטיװ

On album:: B-061(a) (Boiberik Camp Songs Field Tape Compiled by Mickey Hurewitz)
Track ID:: 19637
Artist:: Boiberik Campers
First line:: Sholem aleykem, malakhay hasholem, shlikhim fun eybikn...
First line:: שלוֹם עליכם, מלאכי השלום, שליחים פון אײביקן, לױטערן חלום,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Come, let us sing, let us sing out together, come let us...
Language:: Yiddish/English/Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 4:07

Lekha Dodi (Boiberik Recitive) — לכה דודי (בויבעריק רעסיטיוו)

Author:: Alkabetz, Rabbi Solomon — אלקבּץ, ר" שלמה
Genre:: Ritual
Subject:: Shabos/Welcoming/Bride/Sabbath
Additional song notes:: Come My Bride

On album:: B-061(a) (Boiberik Camp Songs Field Tape Compiled by Mickey Hurewitz)
Track ID:: 19641
Artist:: Boiberik Campers
First line:: L'chah dodi likrat kallah; p'nei shabat n'kabblah
First line:: לכה דודי לקראת כּלה פּני שבּת נקבּלה. קום אַרױס אַקעגן כּלה,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Keep and remember the Shabos day, God is One, His name...
Language:: Hebrew/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:05

Kidush — קידוש

Genre:: Liturgical/Religious
Subject:: Blessing/Wine/Sanctification
Origin:: Zim 11/Alb K-047(d)
Transliteration:: Zim 11/Alb K-047(d)/
Translation:: Alb M-030(a)Alb R-026(b)/Zim 11/Alb K-047(d)/CD B-076(a)/Vorbei 235
Additional song notes:: See Cardozo 96 for the the text, translation and melody line of the Kidush recited on the evenings of the Three Festivals

On album:: B-061(a) (Boiberik Camp Songs Field Tape Compiled by Mickey Hurewitz)
Track ID:: 19654
Artist:: Boiberik Campers
First line:: Barukh ata hashem eloheynu meylekh hoalam, borey pri hagafen
First line (Hebrew):: בּרוּך אתּה יי עלהינוּ מלך העוֹלם בּוֹרא פּרי הגפן
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:45

Doktor Nebekh — ד"ר נעבעך

On album:: Y-019(a) (Yiddish Humor — יידישע הומור)
Track ID:: 19978
Author:: Szudzig
Vocal:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Oy Allah Ikh Lig In Adama — אױ אלא איך ליג אין אדמה

Additional song notes:: Oh Allah, I Lie In The Earth

On album:: Y-019(a) (Yiddish Humor — יידישע הומור)
Track ID:: 19980
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Perlman, Max — פּערלמאַן, מאַקס
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Dangerous Occupations

On album:: G-049(a) (The Unorthodox Record Of Jewish Records & Lists)
Track ID:: 20427
Author/Artist:: Gould, Allan & Danny Siegal
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: From book "The Unorthodox Book of Jewish Records & Lists"
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Shuster — דער שוסטער

Genre:: Theater
Subject:: Occupation/Shoemaker

On album:: K-010(g) (32 World Famous Artists Sing Oldies Of The Yiddish Theatre)
Track ID:: 21162
Vocal:: Wilner, Max — װילנער, מאַקס
Narration:: Kressyn, Miriam — קרעסן, מיריאַם
Narration:: Rechtzeit, Seymour — רעכצײַט, סימאָר
First line:: Voyl is der maman un gut iz der mamen vos zi hat a shuster..
First line (Yiddish):: װױל איז דער מאַמאַן און גוט איז דער מאַמען װאָס זי האָט אַ...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Lebn Fun Yidn In Geto 1940-44 -Heb — לעבן פֿון ייִדן אין געטאָ (עבֿרית)

On album:: R-012(a) (Yizkor Shammai Rosenblum — יזכּור שמאי רוזנבלום)
Track ID:: 8935
Author/Artist:: Rosenblum, Shami — רוזנבלום, שמאי
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word

Hodl — האָדל

On album:: A-003(m)
Track ID:: 6677
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Artist:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Track comment:: From series of five tapes - tape 3, side A and B
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Legende Fun Elihayu Hanovi — לעגענדע פֿון אליהו הנבֿיא

On album:: B-047(a) (Joseph Buloff (Recorded at Sholem Aleichem Club, Phila-1973) — יוסף בולאָװ (שלום עליכם קלוב קאָנצערט, פֿליאַדעלפֿיע - 1973)
Track ID:: 8970
Author:: Leyb, Mani — לײב, מאַני
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Story of Eliyahu and Vilna winter of 1898.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Lekh Lekha (Aleichem) — לך לך (עליכם)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Expulsion/Tevye/Kasrielevke

On album:: A-003(d) (Sholom Aleichem Monologues with I. Rymer — שלום עליכם מאָנאָלאָגען מיט י. רײמער)
Track ID:: 8978
Vocal:: Rhymer, I. — רײמער, י.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Lekh Lekha (Aleichem) — לך לך (עליכם)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Expulsion/Tevye/Kasrielevke

On album:: A-003(m)
Track ID:: 8979
Vocal:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

A Briv (Korn) — אַ בריװ (קאָרן)

Also known as:: A Letter (Eng, A Briv)
Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Love/Letter/Miscommunication/Anger
Origin:: Whitman 36/Korn 22
Translation:: Whitman 37/Korn 23
Additional song notes:: A Letter

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22582
Vocal:: Perry, Roslyn Bresnick
English Adaptation:: Levitan, Seymour
First line:: Veyst, libster - haynt iz der tog azoy zunik un harb, vi a gold-gele frukht.
First line:: װײס, ליבסטער ־ הײַנט איז דער טאָג אַזױ זוניק און האַרב, ווי אַ גאָלד־געלע...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:29

Di Shmole Stezshke — די שמאָלע שטעזשקע

Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Path/Memory/Fatigue/Death/Love
Origin:: Korn 40
Translation:: Korn 41
Additional song notes:: The Narrow Path

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22588
Author/Artist:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
First line:: Mistome iz nokh haynt faran di shmole stezshke, vos gedenkt dayne trit,
First line:: מסתּמא איז נאָך הײַנט פֿאַראַן די שמאָלע שטעזשקע, וואָס געדענקט דײַנע טריט,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 4:05

Konkurentn — קאָנקורענטן

Also known as:: Competitors
Also known as:: Di Konkurentn
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous
Song comment:: Railraod/Food/Occupation/Curses/Maledictions/Competitors/Husband/Wife
Additional song notes:: From "Eyzenban Geshiktn"

On album:: A-003(a) (Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh / The Little People — שלום עליכם די קלײנע מענטשעלעך)
Track ID:: 8639
Vocal:: Rudensky, Shmuel — רודענסקי, שמואל
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Vocal:: Goldenberg, Eliyahu — גאָלדענבערג, אליהו
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Konkurentn — קאָנקורענטן

Also known as:: Competitors
Also known as:: Di Konkurentn
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous
Song comment:: Railraod/Food/Occupation/Curses/Maledictions/Competitors/Husband/Wife
Additional song notes:: From "Eyzenban Geshiktn"

On album:: A-003(h) (Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh — שלום עליכם די קלײנע מענטשעלעך)
Track ID:: 8640
Vocal:: Di Dray Shmueliks — די דרײ שמואליקס
Vocal:: Rudensky, Shmuel — רודענסקי, שמואל
Vocal:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Kopel Minister — קאָפּעל מיניסטער

On album:: A-003(l) (Elihu Tenenholtz / Holiday Stories by Sholom Aleichem — אליהו טענענהאָלץ \ יום־טוב מעשיות פֿון שלום עליכם)
Track ID:: 8642
Vocal:: Tenenholtz, Elihu — טענענהאָלץ, אליהו
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Fun Yener Zayt Lid — פֿון יענער זײַט ליד

Author:

Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל

Composer:

Shepherd, Polina — שעפּהערד, פּאָלינאַ

Genre:

Literary Origin

Subject:

Past/Memory/Yearning/Reminiscence

Origin:

Penguin YID 525/Korn 69/Sh Sh 459

Translation:

Penguin YID 524/ Korn 69/Sh Sh 458

Additional song notes:

On The Other Side Of The Poem

Related information in folder 474:

Document type:: Transliteration
Comments:: Transliteration of poem from the internet.

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22572
Vocal:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Vocal/Yiddish Adaptation:: Levitan, Seymour
First line:: Fun yener zayt lid iz a sod faran, un in sod, a hoyf mit a..
First line:: פֿון יענער זײַט ליד איז אַ סוד פֿאַראַן, און אין סאָד אַ הױז מיט אַ...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:44

Di Alte Hanke — די אַלטע האַנקע

Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Poverty/Hardship/Acceptance/Tender/Step Mother/Field Worker
Origin:: Korn 6
Translation:: Korn 7
Additional song notes:: Old Hanke

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22574
Vocal:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Yiddish Adaptation:: Levitan, Seymour
Vocal:: Perry, Roslyn Bresnick
First line:: Keyner hot zi nisht gelernt ir melokhe, di alte hanke,
First line:: קײנער האָט זי נישט געלערנט איר מלאָכה, די אַלטע האָנקע,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 7:00

Kheshvn — חשװן

Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Furrows/Planting/Rebirth/Pain/Joy/Birds
Origin:: Korn 4
Translation:: Korn 5
Additional song notes:: New Furrows

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22576
Vocal:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Vocal:: Perry, Roslyn Bresnick
Yiddish Adaption:: Levitan, Seymour
First line:: Di frishe shvarse skibes erd lign hakhnehdik un mid...
First line:: די פֿרישע, שוואַרצע סקיבעס ערד ליגן הכנעהגיק און מיד אַהטקעגן אָסיענדיקער זון,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:53

Kh'bin Durkhgeveykt Mit Dir — כ'בין דורכגעװײקט מיט דיר

Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Composer:: Kross, Rolinha
Genre:: Literary
Subject:: Love/Rain/Man/Nature/Passion/Pain
Origin:: Whitman 34/Korn 20/Sh Sh 461
Transliteration:: Alb K-094(a)
Translation:: Whitman 35/Korn 21/Sh Sh 460
Additional song notes:: I Am Soaked Through By You

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22578
Vocal:: Perry, Roslyn Bresnick
Yiddish Adaption:: Levitan, Seymour
First line:: Kh'bin durkegeveykt mit dir, vi erd mit frilngdikn regn,
First line:: כ'בין דורכגעװײקט מיט דיר, װי ערד מיט פֿרילונדיקן רעגן,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:24

Kh'shtey In Der Mitogtsayt (Greenberg) — כ'שטײ אין דער מיטאָגצײַט (גרינבערג)

Also known as:: I Stand In The Midday (Eng)
Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Composer:: Greenberg, Helen Medwedeff — גרינבערג, העלען מעדוועדעף
Genre:: Literary Origin/Women
Subject:: Maturity/Love/Passion/Future
Song comment:: From song cycle "Froyenshtime"
Origin:: Penguin YID 523/Alb N-026(a)/Green 20/Korn 21
Transliteration:: Greenberg Sheet Music #3
Translation:: Alb C-023(h)/Alb K-081(a)/Penguin YID 522 /Alb N-026(a)/Green 20/Korn 21
Music:: Green 20/Greenberg Sheet Music #3
Additional song notes:: I Stand in the Midday Part of Froyen Shtimme See pamphlet in Book Index (short title "Green") Franklin Call # 1621 G 733 F7 1994 for Yiddish text, translation and transliteration. The pamphlet is in Greenberg Sheet Music #3

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22580
Spoken Word:: Perry, Roslyn Bresnick
Yiddish Adaptation:: Levitan, Seymour
First line:: Kh'shtey in der mitogtsayt fun dayn lebn, a zang, a geboygene fun fulkeyt...
First line:: כ'שטײ אין דער מיטאָגצײַט פֿון דײַן לעבן, אַ זאַנג, אַ געבױגענע פֿון פֿולקײַט..
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:30

Alexandrovitsh, Misha Radio Interv

On album:: A-005(d) (Mischa Alexandrovitsh Radio Interview May 10, 1995)
Track ID:: 23360
Vocal:: Alexandrovitch, Cantor Misha — אַלעקסאַנדראָװיטש, חזן מישאַ
Artist:: Segal, Khasia, interviewer
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Interview

S'ken Gornisht Farheyln Dem Ris — ס'קען גאָרנישט פֿאַרהײלן דעם ריס

Author:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Irreparable

On album:: K-067(a) (Paper Roses Yiddish Poems by Rachel Korn — לידער פֿון רחל קאָרן)
Track ID:: 22608
Vocal:: Korn (Rakhl), Rachel — קאָרן, רחל
Vocal/English Adaption:: Levitan, Seymour
First line:: S'ken gornisht farheyln dem ris, zind dan, ven kh'hob zikh..
First line:: ס'קען גאָרנישט פֿאַרהײלן דעם ריס, זינד דאַן, װען כ'האָב זיך..
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:12

Haynt Iz Purim — הײַנט איז פּורים

Genre:: Children's Folk Saying
Subject:: Purim/Begging/Penny
Origin:: Alb B-004(c)
Transliteration:: Alb B-004(c)
Translation:: Alb B-004(c)

On album:: B-004(c) (Let's Sing A Yiddish Song... Masha Benya & Children Chorus — לאָמיר זינגען לידער פֿאַר ייִדישע קינדער)
Track ID:: 6331
Vocalist:: Benya, Masha — בעניע, מאַשאַ
Piano:: Gottlieb, Malke — גאָטליב, מלכּה
Arranger:: Gelbart, Mikhl — געלבאַרט, מיכל
First line:: Haynt iz purim, morgn is oys, gib mir a peni un varf mikh...
First line (Yiddish):: הײַנט איז פּורים, מאָרגן איז אױס, גיב מיר אַ פּעני און װאַרף מיך..
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Narrated by Yosl Mlotek
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Gimpel The Fool

Author:

Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס

Genre:

Literary Origin

Related information in folder 877:

Comments:: 1. Article in the New York Times of December 9, 2008 by Lawrence Van Gelder reviewing the Folksbiene producion of Gimpel Tam 2. Article in the Yiddish Forverts of December 5 - December 11 by Itzik Gottesman titled "Gimpl Tam bay der 'Folksbiene'" revieng the Folksbiene production of Gimpl Tam.

On album:: J-027(a) (Jewish Short Stories..Eastern Europe & Beyond/ Sneak Preview)
Track ID:: 24236
Author:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Vocal:: Wallach, Eli
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

A String OF Yarns

On album:: C-036(a) (Mryon Cohen It's Not A Question!)
Track ID:: 24604
Artist:: Cohen, Myron
Track comment:: Waiter/ Orthodox Martians/ Max and the Martian
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Di Nodl Un Di Shpiz — די נאָגל און די שפֿיז

Also known as:: The Spear And The Needle
Author:: Shtaynbarg, Eliezer — שטײַנבאַרג, אליעזר
Genre:: Literary Origin/Fable/Tool/Inanimate Object
Subject:: Needle/Spear/Bayonet/Weapon/Rifle/Killing/Creativity
Origin:: Shtaynberg Fables 20/Shtaybarg Mesholim 55
Translation:: Shtaynberg Fables 21

On album:: W-017(d) (Prayer For A Broken World The Wholesale Klezmer Band — תפֿילה פֿאַר אַ צעבראָכענער װעלט)
Track ID:: 24983
Vocal/Translator:: Kurland, (Joe) Yosl — קורלאַנד, יוסל
First line:: A man once came home from the war, and tossed his weapons...
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:28

Beahavteynu — באהבתנו

Also known as:: In Our Love
Author:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Love
Additional song notes:: Recorded under title "In Our Love"

On album:: A-047(a) (Yehuda Amichai Poetry/ Music Mark Kopytman)
Track ID:: 31740
Vocal:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:40

Geshem (Amichai) — גשם

Author:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Rain/Battlefield/Comrades/Death
Additional song notes:: Rain falls on the faces of my comrades who tried to cover themselves with a blanket, and on the faces of my dead comrades who aren't covered by it.

On album:: A-047(a) (Yehuda Amichai Poetry/ Music Mark Kopytman)
Track ID:: 31711
Vocal:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
First line:: Geshem bistey hakrav
First line (Hebrew):: גשם בשדה הקרב
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:15

Der Bris (A Bris In Moskva) — דער בּרית (אַ בּרית אין מאָסקװע)

Also known as:: A Bris In Moskve (Der Bris)

On album:: F-037(b) (Avraham Fried sings "Yiddish Gems" 2...by R' Yom Tov Ehrlich — אידישע אוצרות 2)
Track ID:: 25151
Author/Composer:: Ehrlich, Yom Tov — עהרליך, יוֹם טוֹב
Artist:: Fried, Avraham & Childrens Choir — פֿריִד, אַבֿרהם און קינדער כאָר
Artist:: Gershovsky, Yaron — גרשובסקי, יורן
First line:: Di nakht iz gekumen, der tog iz avek, di gasn fun moskva...
First line (Yiddish):: די נאַכט איז געקומען, דער טאָג איז אַװעק, די גאַסן פֿון מאָסקװאַ...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Recorded under A Bris In Moskva
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Bratslaver Tsu Zayn Soyfer — דער בראַצלאַװער צו זײן סופֿר

On album:: R-046(a) (Bontshe Shavyg..And Other Selections...Read...by David Rogow — ראָגאַװ\ "באָנטשע שװײַג" און אַנדערע שאַפֿונגען..ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 26227
Author:: Glatshteyn, Yakov — גלאַטשטײַן, יעקבֿ,
Artist:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
First line:: Nusn, davai haynt nisht trakhtn, host shoyn a mol gezen...
First line (Yiddish):: נתן, דאַװאַי הײַנט נישט טראַכטן, האָסט שױן אַ מאָל געזען אַזאַ װעלט,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Khalef Un Di Zeg — דער חלף און די זעג

Author:: Shtaynbarg, Eliezer — שטײַנבאַרג, אליעזר
Genre:: Literary Origin/Fable
Subject:: Tool/Inanimate Object/Slaughter Knife/Saw/Flaws/Teeth/Work
Origin:: Shtaynberg Fables 164/Shtaybarg Mesholim 29
Translation:: Shtaynberg Fables 165

On album:: R-046(a) (Bontshe Shavyg..And Other Selections...Read...by David Rogow — ראָגאַװ\ "באָנטשע שװײַג" און אַנדערע שאַפֿונגען..ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 26228
Artist:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
First line:: S'treft a mol zikh oykhet az a shaytl holts tsuzegn muz a...
First line (Yiddish):: ס'טרעפֿט אַ מאָל זיך אױכעט אַז אַ שײַטל האָלץ צוזעגן מוז אַ שוחט,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Tevye - Khava Dialogue — טעװיאַ - חוה דיאָלאָג

On album:: H-006(h) (Shlomo Mikhoels USSR Tevye Recording)
Track ID:: 27422
Vocal:: Mikhoels, Shloyme — מיכאָעלס, שלמה
Vocal:: Karchmar, Esther
First line:: Khavele, vos iz tate?..Zog mikh tokhter, vos ikh vil bay...
First line:: חוהלע, װאָס איז טאַטע? זאָג מיך טאָכטער, װאָס איך װיל בײַ דיר...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: From Tevya Der Milkhiker - 2nd Act-from 78 recording Box 038
Style:: Spoken Word

Yom Tov — יום-טובֿ

Also known as:: Holiday
Author:: Leivick, Halper — לײװיק, האַלפּער
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Father/Child/Hoiday/Peysekh/Security/Hand/Memory/Shtetl
Origin:: Alb G-019(a)/Alb B-036(a)
Transliteration:: Alb G-019(a)
Translation:: Alb G-019(a)/Alb B-036(a)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33419
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: Der tate firt mir far a hant in shul, der tog iz frimorgandik zunik,
First line (Yiddish):: דער טאַטע פֿירט מיר פֿאַר אַ האַנט אין שול, דער טאָג איז פֿרימאָרגאַנדיק זוניק,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:48

Der Yunger Dor — דער יונגער דאָר

Also known as:: The Young Generation
Author:: Grade, Chaim — גראַגע, חײם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Gereration/Change/Transformation/Liberation/Redemption
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33420
Vocal/English Adaptation:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: And you, my young comrades, in wind blown shirts and crimson cravets,
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:27

Der Yunger Dor — דער יונגער דאָר

Also known as:: The Young Generation
Author:: Grade, Chaim — גראַגע, חײם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Gereration/Change/Transformation/Liberation/Redemption
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33421
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: Un ir, mayne yunge khaverim, in vintike bluzes un royte kravatn,
First line (Yiddish):: און איר, מײַנע יונגע חבֿרים, אין ווינטיקע בלוזעס און רויטע קראַוואַטן,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:30

The Dreydl Game (Eng)

On album:: K-029(d) (The Klezmer Conservatory Band Oy Chanukah!)
Track ID:: 15024
Author:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Vocal:: Gann, Matthew
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: From short story "A Hanukkah Evening In My Parents' Home"
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Elohim Merakhem — אלוהים מרחם

Also known as:: God Has Mercy
Author:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: God/Mercy/War/Children/Adults/
Additional song notes:: God has mercy on children in kindergarden, less on children in elementary school. On adults he has no mercy and sometimes they have to crawl on all fours to the dressing station streaming with blood.

On album:: A-047(a) (Yehuda Amichai Poetry/ Music Mark Kopytman)
Track ID:: 31739
Vocal:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
First line:: Elohim merakem al yaldey hagan,
First line (Hebrew):: אלוהים מרחם על ילדי הגן,
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:42

Haim Kol Ze Tsaar — האם כל זה צער

Also known as:: Is All This Sorrow?
Author:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Mourning/Memorial/Graveyard
Additional song notes:: Recorded under "Is All This Sorrow?"

On album:: A-047(a) (Yehuda Amichai Poetry/ Music Mark Kopytman)
Track ID:: 31741
Vocal:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
First line:: Haim kol ze tsaar? Eyneny yodea.
First line (Hebrew):: האם כל זה צער? אינני יודע.
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:21

Mit Sezon Yom Tov — מיט סעזאָן יום טובֿ

Subject:: Memory
Origin:: Boiberik Z 44

On album:: B-061(b) (Boiberik Zingt, a dermanung / Moyshe Khalfn, Boiberik 1926-1936 — בויבעריק זינגט, אַ דערמאָנונג\ משה כאַלפֿן, בויבעריק 1926-1936)
Track ID:: 32506
Vocal:: Khalfn, Moyshe — כאַלפֿן, משה
First line:: Mit sezon yontov der gantser kamp hot durkhgefirt a makhtike historishe piese..
First line (Yiddish):: דער גאַנצער קאַמפּ האַט דורכגעפֿירט אַ מעכטיקע היסטאָרישע פּיעסע...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:13

The Housewarming

Author:: Foster, George
Author:: Booker, Bob
Genre:: Humorous/Sketch

On album:: W-012(b) (Bob Booker & George Foster Present You Don't Have To Be Jewish)
Track ID:: 15088
Vocal:: Walker, Betty
Vocal:: Gilford, Jack
Vocal:: Golonka, Arlene
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Comedic
Length:: 1:03

Der Malakh — דער מלאך

Genre:: Monolog/Literary Origin/Humorous
Subject:: Conductor/Passenger/Messinger/Messiah/Baggage/Angel/Exile
Additional song notes:: The Angel

On album:: D-005(e) (Lustig Un Lebedik Freylekh (Lebedov) Dzigan's Lakh Oytser — לוסטיג און לעבעדיק דזשיגאַנס לאַך אױצר)
Track ID:: 14360
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
First line:: Akhtung, akhtung,..ale pasazshrirn…zenen gebetn,..hobn zi valize, hon nisht keyn
First line (Yiddish):: אַכאונג, אַכטונע,...אַלע פאַסאַזשירן..זענען געבעטן,.. האָבן זי וואַליזע?
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologe/Humourous
Length:: 6:15

Di Shlof Krankheyt — די שלאָף קראַנקײַט

Genre:: Skit/Humorous
Subject:: Sleep/Illness/Husband/Abandoned Wife/Old Maid/Sleepwalker
Additional song notes:: The Sleeping Sickness

On album:: L-050(a) (Martin Lorber Collection of 78 RPM Recordings)
Track ID:: 27678
Vocalist:: Karp, Abe
First line:: Inaudible
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Columbia E7267 78rpm Preceded by Skit
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Klezmer/Spoken Word

Kasrilevker Sreyfes — כּתריאלעװקער שׂריפות

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Humor/Literary Origin
Subject:: Fire/Shtetl

On album:: R-012(e) (Sholem Aleichem, Lakhn Iz Gezunt Performed by Shammai Rosenblum — שלום עליכם לאַכן איז געזונט אױסגעפֿירט פֿון שמאי רוזנבלום)
Track ID:: 27704
Vocal:: Rosenblum, Shami — רוזנבלום, שמאי
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologue/Humor

Shvayg Telebende

Author:: Kovner, B. — קאָװנער, ב.

On album:: 007f (Gold, Clara/Goldstein, Gus/ Shvayg Telebende/ Vayber,Yente Geyt Oyf Milkhome)
Track ID:: 28981
Vocal:: Gold, Clara — גאָלד, קלאַראַ
Vocal:: Goldstein, Gus
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Comic/Spoken Word

Vayber,Yente Geyt Oyf Milkhome

On album:: 007f (Gold, Clara/Goldstein, Gus/ Shvayg Telebende/ Vayber,Yente Geyt Oyf Milkhome)
Track ID:: 28982
Vocal:: Goldstein, Gus
Vocal:: Gold, Clara — גאָלד, קלאַראַ
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Humorous/Spoken Word

Freg Ikh Bay Mayn Liber Froy — פֿרעג איך בײַ מײַן ליבער פֿרוי

Also known as:: The End Of The Book
Author:: Halpern, Moyshe Leyb — האַלפּערן, משה לײב
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous
Subject:: Husband/Wife/Housework/Nonsense/Book/Ending/Humor/Laughter
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(a)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33452
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: Freg ikh bay mayn liber froy, vi azoy tsu endikn dos roman, in mayn bikhele--
First line (Yiddish):: פֿרעג איך נײַ מײַן ליבער פֿרוי, ווי אַזוי צו ענדיקן דאָס ראָמאַן אין מײַן ביכעלע
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:29

Freg Ikh Bay Mayn Liber Froy — פֿרעג איך בײַ מײַן ליבער פֿרוי

Also known as:: The End Of The Book
Author:: Halpern, Moyshe Leyb — האַלפּערן, משה לײב
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous
Subject:: Husband/Wife/Housework/Nonsense/Book/Ending/Humor/Laughter
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(a)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33453
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
English Adaption:: Harshav, Benjamin
English Adaption:: Harshav, Barbara
First line:: So I ask may dear wife how to finish the affair of my little booky,
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:31

Balade Vegn Hint — באַלאַדע וועגן הינט

Author:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Food/Dogs/Injustice/Good/Evil/Indifference

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33454
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: Shtendik ven ikh es heyse lokshn mit yoykh vert zikh gemitlekh un varem in boykh
First line (Yiddish):: שטענדיק ווען איך עס הייסע לאָקשן און יויך ווערט זיך געמיטלעך און וואַרעם אין...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:02

Tsu Gezunt Tsu Lebn Tsu Lange Yor — צו געזונט צו לעבן צו לאַנגע יאָר

Genre:: Folk/Rhyme/Protectiv
Subject:: Sneeze/Blessing
Origin:: Alb A-053(a)
Transliteration:: Alb A-053(a)
Translation:: Alb A-053(a)

On album:: A-053(a) (The Upward Flight/ The Musical World of S. An-sky/ Michael Alpert/ Stuart Brotman)
Track ID:: 33147
Vocal:: Yiddish Children's Chorus, St Petersburg
First line:: Tsu gezunt, tsu lebn, tsu lange yor, tsu a gutn dor,
First line (Yiddish):: צו געזומט, צו לעבן, צו לאַנגע יאָר, צו אַ גוטן דאָר,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Folk/Spoken Word
Length:: 0:09

Bernard Blacksberg Interview

Genre:: Interview/Historical/Documentary
Subject:: Bernrd Blacksberg

On album:: B-094(a)
Track ID:: 33118
Vocal:: Blacksberg, Bernard
Vocal:: Alpert, Michael — אַלפּערט, מישקע
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Mayn Shvester Khaye — מײַן שװעסטער חיה

Author:: Heller, Binem — העלער, בינעם
Composer:: Alberstein, Chava — אַלבערשטײַן, חוה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Holocaust/Memory
Subject:: Sister/Pigtails/Treblinke/Nurtured/Siblings/God's Daughter
Origin:: Alb A-001(l)/Alb K-026(k)2
Transliteration:: Alb A-001(l)/Ephemera 1435/Alb K-026(k)2
Translation:: Alb A-001(l)/Ephemera 1435/Alb K-026(k)2
Additional song notes:: My Sister Chaya

On album:: V0029
Track ID:: 33909
Vocal / Spoken Word:: Kestin, Hadassah
First line:: Mayn shvester khaye mit di grine oygn, mayn shvester khaye..
First line (Yiddish):: מײַן שװעסטער חיה מיט די גרינע אױגן, מײַן שװעסטער חיה מיט די…
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Image Before My Eyes

Genre:: Video/Documentary/History
Subject:: Poland/Jews/1920-40 Interwar Period/

On album:: V0022
Track ID:: 33919
Producer/Director/Editor:: Waletzky, Josh — װאָלעטסקי, יהודה
Producer:: Lazarus, Susan
Writer:: Badanes, Jerome
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 90:00

Bekhol Khumrat Harakhamim — בכל חומרת הרחמים

Author:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
Genre:: Literary Origin

On album:: A-047(a) (Yehuda Amichai Poetry/ Music Mark Kopytman)
Track ID:: 31737
Vocal:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
First line:: Mene otam ata yakhol limnot otam,
First line (Hebrew):: מנה אותם אתה יכול למנות אותם,
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:12

Ringl Ringl Rod — רינגל רינגל ראָד

Also known as:: Round And Around And Around
Author:: Halpern, Moyshe Leyb — האַלפּערן, משה לײב
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Love/Lonliness/King/Age/Hunter/Wives/Sorrow
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33451
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: Mayn yunge rebns sheyne froy--ver zifts bay dir in kamer dort, ver veynt,
First line (Yiddish):: מײַן יונגע רבנס שיינע פֿרוי--ווער זיפֿץ בײַ דיר אין קאַמער דאָרט, ווער וויינט,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:35

Boiled Beef

Genre:: Story/Monologue
Subject:: Restaurant/Food/Waiter/Union/

On album:: A-048(a) (All for you: collection of love songs — הכל בשבילך: אוסף שירי אהבה)
Track ID:: 31728
Vocal:: Cohen, Myron
First line:: The events I'm going to portray for you know…
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Dialect

Brodnitz, Julius

Genre:: Speech/Political/Historical
Subject:: Elections/Germany/1930
Origin:: Kulterbund 26
Translation:: Kulturbund 27

On album:: V-015(a) (Vorbei... Beyond Recall, CD 1/ A Record of Jewish musical life in Nazi Berlin, 1933-1938)
Track ID:: 31240
Vocal:: Brodnitz, Julius
First line:: Wer von Euch, maine judischen Freunde, in der heutigen Zeit,
Language:: German
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:47

Hollander, Ludwig

Genre:: Speech/Political/Historical
Subject:: Elections/German/1930
Origin:: Kulterbund 28
Translation:: Kulturbund 27

On album:: V-015(a) (Vorbei... Beyond Recall, CD 1/ A Record of Jewish musical life in Nazi Berlin, 1933-1938)
Track ID:: 31241
Vocal:: Hollander, Ludwig
First line:: Ganz Deutchland befindet zikh in einer politschen Krise,
Language:: German
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:47

Ani Navi Ani — אני נביא עני

Also known as:: I Am A Poor Prophet
Author:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: War/Love/Poet/Prophecy
Additional song notes:: Recorded under "I Am A Poor Prophet"

On album:: A-047(a) (Yehuda Amichai Poetry/ Music Mark Kopytman)
Track ID:: 31744
Vocal:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
First line:: Ani navi ani, kemo yeled ani, shyesh lo rak shney tsvaim.
First line (Hebrew):: אני נביא עני, כמו ילד עני, שיש לו רק שני צבעים.
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:54

A Bas Kol - Declamatsie — אַ באַס קול - דעקלאַמאַטציאַ

Genre:: Boiberik Camp Song/Felker Yom Tov
Subject:: Peace/Heavenly Voice
Origin:: Boiberik Z 48

On album:: B-061(b) (Boiberik Zingt, a dermanung / Moyshe Khalfn, Boiberik 1926-1936 — בויבעריק זינגט, אַ דערמאָנונג\ משה כאַלפֿן, בויבעריק 1926-1936)
Track ID:: 32510
Vocal:: Khalfn, Moyshe — כאַלפֿן, משה
First line:: A bas kol fun himlen, kum aher, du mentsh, in der nayer velt, tsu dem nayem...
First line (Yiddish):: אַ בּת קול פֿון הימלען, קום אַהער דו מענטש, אין דער נײַער וועלט, צו דעם נײַעם מענש
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Kol Haavanim Haeyle — כל האבנים האלה

Also known as:: All These Stones
Author:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Death/Foreboding/Universal
Additional song notes:: Recorded under "All These Stones"

On album:: A-047(a) (Yehuda Amichai Poetry/ Music Mark Kopytman)
Track ID:: 31742
Vocal:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
First line:: Kol haavanim haeyle. Kol haetsiv. Kol haor.
First line (Hebrew):: כל האבנים האלה. כל העצב. כל האור.
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:50

Diathermy

Genre:: Radio Advertisement
Subject:: Machine/Cure
Additional song notes:: Part of "Kosher Food in Radio" from Yiddish Radio Recordings, Henry Sapoznik and The Yiddish Radio Project

On album:: A-048(a) (All for you: collection of love songs — הכל בשבילך: אוסף שירי אהבה)
Track ID:: 31724
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Carnation Milk

Genre:: Radio Advertisement
Subject:: Milk/Canned/Food
Additional song notes:: Part of "Kosher Food in Radio" from Yiddish Radio Recordings, Henry Sapoznik and The Yiddish Radio Project

On album:: A-048(a) (All for you: collection of love songs — הכל בשבילך: אוסף שירי אהבה)
Track ID:: 31725
Language:: English Voiceover
Style:: Spoken Word

Watch Your Step (Halpern) — װאַטש יאָר סטעפ (האַלפּערן)

Author:: Halpern, Moyshe Leyb — האַלפּערן, משה לײב
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Hurry/Time/Speed/Trains/Desire
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33449
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: Gold iz di tsayt in dem goldenem land, git men a klang un a hoyb mit a hant,
First line (Yiddish):: גאַלד איז די צײַט אין דעם גאָלדענעם לאַנד, גיט מען אַ קלאַנג און אַ הויב מיט אַ האַנט,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:32

Ringl Ringl Rod — רינגל רינגל ראָד

Also known as:: Round And Around And Around
Author:: Halpern, Moyshe Leyb — האַלפּערן, משה לײב
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Love/Lonliness/King/Age/Hunter/Wives/Sorrow
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33450
Vocal/English Adaptation:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: Our rabbi's beautiful your wife, who is it that moans in your chamber,
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:49

Ikh Shtey Unter A Bokserboym — איך שטײ אונטער אַ באָקסערבױם

Author:: Telesin, Zhame — טעלעסין, ז.
Composer:: Alberstein, Chava — אַלבערשטײַן, חוה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Zionist
Subject:: Trees/Carob/Fig/Almond/Israel/Hardship/Joy/Sadness
Origin:: Alb A-001(l)/
Transliteration:: Alb A-001(l)
Translation:: Alb A-001(l)

On album:: V0029
Track ID:: 33905
Reader:: Beymvol, Rukhl — ביימוואָל, רחל
First line:: Ikh shtey unter a bokserboym, a bokserboym, tsu im derklibn hob zikh koym,
First line (Yiddish):: איך שטײ אונטער אַ באָקסערבױם, אַ באָקסערבױם, צו אים דערקליבן…
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

A Khazn A Shiker — אַ חזן אַ שיכּור

Author:: Schwartz, Maurice
Genre:: Theater/Lament
Subject:: Cantor/Poverty/Drunkeness/Occupation

On album:: V-015(i) (Vorbei… Beyond Recall, CD 9/ A Record of Jewish musical life in Nazi Berlin, 1933-1938)
Track ID:: 31584
Vocal:: Schwartz, Maurice
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologue
Length:: 8:09

Boiberik Cheer Yip Da Minige Manige Zak — בויבעריק וויוואַט יפּ דאַ מיניגע מאַניקע זאַק

Genre:: Boiberik Cheer
Subject:: Boiberik
Origin:: Boiberik Z 30

On album:: B-061(b) (Boiberik Zingt, a dermanung / Moyshe Khalfn, Boiberik 1926-1936 — בויבעריק זינגט, אַ דערמאָנונג\ משה כאַלפֿן, בויבעריק 1926-1936)
Track ID:: 32493
Vocal:: Khalfn, Moyshe — כאַלפֿן, משה
First line:: Push push yid da minige manige zak,
First line (Yiddish):: פּוש, פּוש ייִד דאַ מיניגע מינאַגע זאַק
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:07

Hinershe Slikhes — הינערשע סליחות

Author:: Shneur, Zalman — שניאור, זלמן
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Holiday/Chickens/Slikhes/Contrasts
Origin:: Ephemera 927

On album:: R-050(a) (Rogow /Taybele and Her Demon And Other Selections From Yiddish Literature — טײַבעלע און הורמיזאַ און אַנדערע שאַפֿונגען פֿון דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 32637
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Shvalb Un Indix

Author:: Miransky, Peretz — מיראַנסקי, פּרץ
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Neighbors/Turkey/Swallow/Compatability

On album:: R-050(a) (Rogow /Taybele and Her Demon And Other Selections From Yiddish Literature — טײַבעלע און הורמיזאַ און אַנדערע שאַפֿונגען פֿון דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 32638
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
First line:: Mit ale friling gest, iz oyfn hoyf gekumen a shvelbl in a vayser vest,
First line (Yiddish):: מיט אַלע פֿרילינג געסט, איז אויפֿן הויף געקומען אַ שוועלבל אין אַ ווײַסער וועסט,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:43

Mendl, Bist A Sheyner

On album:: 035d (Gold, Clara/Goldstein, Gus/ Mendl, Bist A Sheyner/ Mendl Shiker)
Track ID:: 29772
Vocal:: Gold, Clara — גאָלד, קלאַראַ
Vocal:: Goldstein, Gus
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Comic/Spoken Word

Mendl Shiker — מענדל שיכר

On album:: 035d (Gold, Clara/Goldstein, Gus/ Mendl, Bist A Sheyner/ Mendl Shiker)
Track ID:: 29773
Vocal:: Gold, Clara — גאָלד, קלאַראַ
Vocal:: Goldstein, Gus
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Humorous/Spoken Word

Yom Zikaron — יום זיכרון

Author:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Memory/Remembrance
Additional song notes:: "Memorial Day"

On album:: A-047(a) (Yehuda Amichai Poetry/ Music Mark Kopytman)
Track ID:: 31708
Vocal:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
First line:: Yom zikaron lemeitai hamilkhama,
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:55

Freg Ikh Bay Mayn Liber Froy — פֿרעג איך בײַ מײַן ליבער פֿרוי

Also known as:: The End Of The Book
Author:: Halpern, Moyshe Leyb — האַלפּערן, משה לײב
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous
Subject:: Husband/Wife/Housework/Nonsense/Book/Ending/Humor/Laughter
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(a)

On album:: R-050(a) (Rogow /Taybele and Her Demon And Other Selections From Yiddish Literature — טײַבעלע און הורמיזאַ און אַנדערע שאַפֿונגען פֿון דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 32644
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
First line:: Freg ikh bay mayn liber froy, vi azoy tsu farendikn dem roman in mayn bikhele,
First line (Yiddish):: ,פֿרעג איך בײַ מײַן ליבער פֿרוי, ווי אַזוי צו פֿאַרענדיקן דען ראָמאַן אין מײַן ביכעלע
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:22

Ale Menshn Zaynen Brider — אַלע מענשן זײַנען ברידער

Author:: Peretz, Yitskhok Leybush — פּרץ, יצחק לײבוש
Genre:: Brotherhood
Subject:: Brotherhood/Fraternity/Equality/Color/Equality/Races
Origin:: Boiberik Z 50/Sh Sh 67
Transliteration:: Kinderland 10
Translation:: Sh Sh 66

On album:: B-061(b) (Boiberik Zingt, a dermanung / Moyshe Khalfn, Boiberik 1926-1936 — בויבעריק זינגט, אַ דערמאָנונג\ משה כאַלפֿן, בויבעריק 1926-1936)
Track ID:: 32516
Vocal:: Khalfn, Moyshe — כאַלפֿן, משה
First line:: Ale mentshn zaynen brider, royte gela shvartse vayse, lender, felker un klimatn,
First line (Yiddish):: ...אַלע מענשן זײַנען ברידער, רויטע, געלע, שוואַרצע, ווײַסע, לענדער, פֿעלקער און
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:24

Maxwell Street: A Living Memory (Video)

Author:: Eshel, Shuli
Genre:: Documentary/Place
Subject:: Immigration/Business/Maxwell Street/Assimilation/Memory

On album:: V0198 (Maxwell Street: A Living Memory (Video))
Track ID:: 35756
Director/Producer:: Eshel, Shuli
Language:: English
Style:: Documentary/Spoken Word/Talking Heads
Length:: 29:00

Meydlekh In Krotono Park — מיידלעך אין קראָטאָנאָ־פּאַרק

Also known as:: Girls In Crotono Park
Author:: Margolin, Anna — מאַרגאָלין, אַנאַ
Genre:: Literary Origin/Romantic/Suggestive
Subject:: Girls/Park/Appearance/Gossip/Colors/Youth
Origin:: Alb B-036/Margolin 150
Translation:: Alb B-036/Margolin 151
Additional song notes:: From "Sun, Asphalt, Roads"

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33431
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
English Adaptation:: Falk, Marcia
First line:: Girls had wound themselves into autumn evenings as if in a faded picture
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:41

Der Sud — דער סוד

Additional song notes:: The Secret

On album:: S-013(b) (Isaac Bashevis Singer/In My Father's Court/ Volume 1-2/ Read by David Rogow — אין מײַן טאַטנס בית־דין שטוב)
Track ID:: 35377
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
Adaptation:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
First line:: Di tir hot zikh ge'efent in kikh, un s'iz arayngekumen a yidene mit a...
First line (Yiddish):: די טיר האָט זיך גע'עפֿנט אין קיך און ס'איז אַרײַנגעקומען אַ ייִדענע מיט אַ...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 10:24

Boiberik Cheer Boom Tshika Boom — בויבעריק וויוואַט באַם טשיקע באַם

Genre:: Boiberik Cheer
Subject:: Boiberik
Origin:: Boiberik Z 31

On album:: B-061(b) (Boiberik Zingt, a dermanung / Moyshe Khalfn, Boiberik 1926-1936 — בויבעריק זינגט, אַ דערמאָנונג\ משה כאַלפֿן, בויבעריק 1926-1936)
Track ID:: 32494
Vocal:: Khalfn, Moyshe — כאַלפֿן, משה
First line:: Boom tshika boom, bum tshika rike tshika, rika tshika boom
First line (Yiddish):: בום טשיקאַ נום, בום טשיקאַ ריקאַ ריקאַ, ריקאַ טשיקאַ בום,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:17

Boiberik Cheer Aykee Maykee Jeyke Sem — בויבעריק וויוואַט אײַקי אײַקי מײַקי דזשקי סעם

Genre:: Boiberik Cheer
Subject:: Boiberik
Origin:: Boiberik Z 32

On album:: B-061(b) (Boiberik Zingt, a dermanung / Moyshe Khalfn, Boiberik 1926-1936 — בויבעריק זינגט, אַ דערמאָנונג\ משה כאַלפֿן, בויבעריק 1926-1936)
Track ID:: 32495
Vocal:: Khalfn, Moyshe — כאַלפֿן, משה
First line:: Aykee maykee jeyke sam, vir da boyz det eat no ham,
First line (Yiddish):: אײַקי מײַקי דזייקי סאַם, וויר דאַ בויז דעט איט נאַ העם,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:18

Boiberik Cheer Aderabe — בויבעריק וויוואַט אַדעראַבע

Genre:: Boiberik Cheer
Subject:: Boiberik
Origin:: Boiberik Z 33

On album:: B-061(b) (Boiberik Zingt, a dermanung / Moyshe Khalfn, Boiberik 1926-1936 — בויבעריק זינגט, אַ דערמאָנונג\ משה כאַלפֿן, בויבעריק 1926-1936)
Track ID:: 32496
Vocal:: Khalfn, Moyshe — כאַלפֿן, משה
First line:: Aderabe, aderabe, kumt tsu undz arayn di bobe, kumt tsu undz arayn di zeyde,
First line (Yiddish):: אדרבא, אדרבא, קומט צו אונדז אַרײַן די באָבע, קומט צו אונדז אַרײַן די זיידע,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:11

Boiberik Cheer Aka Leke Tshi — בויבעריק וויוואַט אַקאַ לעקע טשי

Genre:: Boiberik Cheer
Subject:: Boiberik
Origin:: Boiberik Z 29

On album:: B-061(b) (Boiberik Zingt, a dermanung / Moyshe Khalfn, Boiberik 1926-1936 — בויבעריק זינגט, אַ דערמאָנונג\ משה כאַלפֿן, בויבעריק 1926-1936)
Track ID:: 32492
Vocal:: Khalfn, Moyshe — כאַלפֿן, משה
First line:: Ako leka tshee, ekolaka tshueo, eko leke tshee tshee tshueo,
First line (Yiddish):: ,אַקאָ לעקאַ טשי, עקאָ לאַקאַ טשועאָ
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:15

Cohen Gets Married

On album:: 051t (Silver, Monroe/ Cohen Gets Married/ Cohen On His Honeymoon)
Track ID:: 30244
Artist:: Silver, Monroe
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Mendl Vert A Shatkhn

On album:: 052e (Gold, Clara/Goldstein, Gus/ Mendl Vert A Shatkhn/ Yente Vil A Luft Shif)
Track ID:: 30254
Vocal:: Gold, Clara — גאָלד, קלאַראַ
Vocal:: Goldstein, Gus
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Humorous/Spoken Word

Yente Vil A Luft Shif

On album:: 052e (Gold, Clara/Goldstein, Gus/ Mendl Vert A Shatkhn/ Yente Vil A Luft Shif)
Track ID:: 30255
Vocal:: Gold, Clara — גאָלד, קלאַראַ
Vocal:: Goldstein, Gus
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Humorous/Spoken Word

Di Dray Bern — די דרײַ בערן

Author:: Levinsohn, Marcia Gruss — לעווענסאָן, מאַרשאַ גרוס
Genre:: Children/Adaptation
Subject:: Goldilocks/Mirele Goldenhele/Bears/Holiday/Apology/Family
Origin:: Three Bears

On album:: L-060(a) (Marcia Gruss Levinsohn/Di Dray Bern/The Three Bears/ Goldylocks Apologizes — די דרײַ בערן\ מירעלע גאָלדהערעלע אַנטשולדיקט זיך)
Track ID:: 33481
Vocal:: Levinsohn, Marcia Gruss — לעווענסאָן, מאַרשאַ גרוס
Musical Accompaniment:: Frank, Paul
Vocal:: Levinsohn, Maurice
First line:: Es iz rosheshone. Der zeyde zitst in shul un dos eynikl iz gekumen tsu gast.
First line (Yiddish):: עס איז ראָש־השנה. דער זיידע זיצט אין שול און דאָס אייניקל איז געקומען צו גאַסט.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Taybele Un Hurmiza — טײַבעלע און הורמיזאַ

Also known as:: Taybele And Her Demon
Author:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Agune/Abandoned Wife/Demon/Trick/

On album:: R-050(a) (Rogow /Taybele and Her Demon And Other Selections From Yiddish Literature — טײַבעלע און הורמיזאַ און אַנדערע שאַפֿונגען פֿון דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 32634
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
First line:: In der shtot, lashnik, nisht vayt fun lublin, hot gevoynt a por forfolk,
First line (Yiddish):: אין דער שטאָטת לאַשניק, נישט ווײַט פֿון לובלין,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 28:29

Shalakh Mones — שלח־מנות

Author:: Molodovsky, Kadya — מאָלאָדאָװסקי, קאַדיע
Genre:: Literary Origin/Children's Poetry
Subject:: Purim/Grandchildren/Gifts/Coin/Queen Esther/Beans

On album:: R-050(a) (Rogow /Taybele and Her Demon And Other Selections From Yiddish Literature — טײַבעלע און הורמיזאַ און אַנדערע שאַפֿונגען פֿון דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 32635
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
First line:: Di Bobe sure-sheyne, an altitshke un a kleyne,
First line (Yiddish):: די באָבע שׂרה־שיינע, אַן אַלטישקע און אַ קליינע,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:30

Hinershe Slikhes — הינערשע סליחות

Author:: Shneur, Zalman — שניאור, זלמן
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Holiday/Chickens/Slikhes/Contrasts
Origin:: Ephemera 927

On album:: R-050(a) (Rogow /Taybele and Her Demon And Other Selections From Yiddish Literature — טײַבעלע און הורמיזאַ און אַנדערע שאַפֿונגען פֿון דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 32636
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
First line:: Fartog,…shteyt a rabe hon…oyf eyn fisl,
First line (Yiddish):: ,פֿאַרטאָג...שטייט אַ ראַבע האָן...אויף איין פֿיסל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 7:13

WEVD

Genre:: Humorous/Parody
Subject:: Various Jokes/Advertisements

On album:: B-089(a) (Dudl Bernstein Accompanied by Madeline Simon/ Century Village 2/1/00)
Track ID:: 31901
Vocal:: Bernstein, Dovid (Dudl) בערנשטיין, דוד (דאָדל)
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Acapella
Length:: 1:48

A Litvak Joke

Genre:: Humorous
Subject:: Soldier/Dialect/Misunderstanding

On album:: B-089(a) (Dudl Bernstein Accompanied by Madeline Simon/ Century Village 2/1/00)
Track ID:: 31905
Vocal:: Bernstein, Dovid (Dudl) בערנשטיין, דוד (דאָדל)
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:59

Bernstein Dovid (Dudl) Eulogies

Genre:: Funeral/Eulogy
Subject:: Family/Reminiscences
Additional song notes:: Eulogies by Jeff Bernstein, Madeline Simon, Nettie Farber for Itche Goldberg, Eric Camins, Meira, Jamie & Carrie Bernstein, Chana Camins, Tina Bernstein-Camins, Moe Friedman, Mel Greenblatt, Howard Bernstein, Marvin Leiner.

On album:: B-089(b) (David "Dudl" Berstein / Funeral Service March 16, 2003)
Track ID:: 31906
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Actual Partition Vote at Flush

On album:: 029f (Kressyn, Miriam/ Actual Partition Vote at Flush/ ing Meadows; A Day to Remember)
Track ID:: 29576
Artist:: Kressyn, Miriam — קרעסן, מיריאַם
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Digging The Weans

Author:: Nathan, Robert
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous/Satire
Subject:: Archeologists/Artifacts/Academia

On album:: B-007(q) (Bravo! / Theodore Bikel Town Hall Concert)
Track ID:: 32689
Vocal:: Bikel, Theodore
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Manischewitz

Genre:: Radio Advertisement
Subject:: Food/Matza
Additional song notes:: Part of "Kosher Food in Radio" from Yiddish Radio Recordings, Henry Sapoznik and The Yiddish Radio Project

On album:: A-048(a) (All for you: collection of love songs — הכל בשבילך: אוסף שירי אהבה)
Track ID:: 31719
Language:: English Voiceover
Style:: Spoken Word

Gefilte Fish — געפּילטע פֿיש

Author:

Lillian, Isadore — ליליאַן, איסאַדאָר

Composer:

Lillian, Isadore — ליליאַן, איסאַדאָר

Genre:

Theater/Pop/

Subject:

Food/Fish/Shabos/Flavor/Mother/Memory/Appetite/Desire

Transliteration:

Alb C-035(e)/Ephemera 1458/WNTL OCT 18, 2015

Translation:

Alb C-035(e)/Ephemea 1458//Ephemera 1458/WNTL OCT 18,

Additional song notes:

Ephemera 1458: See 2015 program for translat and tranlit. Alb !D V0290(4)a--What Not To Like 2015 wha

Related information in folder 144:

Document type:: Text
Comments:: Transliteration.

On album:: A-048(a) (All for you: collection of love songs — הכל בשבילך: אוסף שירי אהבה)
Track ID:: 31723
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Cohen On The Telephone

Genre:: Theater/Humorous

On album:: 034n (Bernard, Barney/ Cohen at the Telephone/ Goldstein Goes in the ...)
Track ID:: 29759
Artist:: Bernard, Barney
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous/Dialect

On These Hills — בגבעות האלה

Also known as:: Bagivaot Haeyle
Author:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Reverie/War/Change/Gentle/Tough

On album:: A-047(a) (Yehuda Amichai Poetry/ Music Mark Kopytman)
Track ID:: 31710
Vocal:: Amichai, Yehuda — עמיחי, יהודה
First line:: Bagivaot haeyle afilu migdaley kiduakh haneft hem kvar lazirkorn,
First line (Hebrew):: בגבעת האלה אפילו מגדלי קידוח הנפט הם...
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:01

Oyfn Ganikl (Koller) — אַויפֿן גאַניקל (קאָלער)

Genre:: Lament
Subject:: Crow/Alienation/Isolation

On album:: K-116(a)1 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 1)
Track ID:: 35462
Vocal:: Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Spoken Word/Explanation
Length:: 1:28

Der Alter Man — דער אַלטער מאַן

Genre:: Occupation
Subject:: Shulklopfer/Messenger/Slikhos/Prayer

On album:: K-116(a)1 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 1)
Track ID:: 35465
Vocal:: Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Spoken Word/Explanation
Length:: 0:29

B'chol Ma'aminim

Genre:: Religious/Folk
Subject:: Service/God/Intention/Kavanah

On album:: K-116(a)1 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 1)
Track ID:: 35467
Vocal:: Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Spoken Word/Explanation

Ven Ikh Bin Rotshild (Aleichem) — װען איך בין ראָטשילד (עליכם)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous/Lament
Subject:: Poverty/Rich/Poor/Wishes/War/Peace
Translation:: Graf 153/Alb A-003(c)

On album:: V0057 (Sholom Aleichem Yortsayt 90th — שלום עליכם יאָרצײַט 90סטן)
Track ID:: 33137
Vocal:: Steinlauf, Michael
First line:: Oy, ven ikh bin rotshild, hot zikh tselozt der kasrilivker melamud eyn mol…
First line (Yiddish):: אוי, ווען איך בין ראָטשילד, האָט צולאָזט דער כּתריאלעװקער מלמד איין מאָל אין...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Beth Medresh Govoha Request.. (Intro)

Genre:: Soliciatation
Subject:: Contributions/Donations

On album:: V0067 (Songs For Chanukha/ Mashgiach HaGoan HaRav Matisyohu Salomon (Video))
Track ID:: 33161
First line:: Sholom aleykhem un a freylikhe khanike
First line:: שלום עליכם און אַ פֿרייליכן חנוכּה
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:54

Special Chanukah Message

Author:: Salomon, Mashgiach HaRav Matisyohu
Genre:: Religious/Sermon
Subject:: Khanike/Instructional

On album:: V0067 (Songs For Chanukha/ Mashgiach HaGoan HaRav Matisyohu Salomon (Video))
Track ID:: 33162
Vocal:: Salomon, Mashgiach HaRav Matisyohu
First line:: Every yom tov in the Jewish calendar has a special message,
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 8:55

Soroka Vorona

Genre:: Children/Rhyme/Russian/Yiddish nonsense syllables
Subject:: Magpie/Crow/Food/Kashe
Origin:: Alb A-053(a)
Transliteration:: Alb A-053(a)
Translation:: Alb A-053(a)

On album:: A-053(a) (The Upward Flight/ The Musical World of S. An-sky/ Michael Alpert/ Stuart Brotman)
Track ID:: 33145
Vocal:: Arshanskaia, Lea
First line:: Soroka, varona, kashku varila, na porog skakala, gostei sozyvala,
Language:: Russian
Style:: Folk/Spoken Word
Length:: 0:28

A Beyt Mitn Reboynu Shel Oylam — אַ בײט מיטן רבּונו של עלום

Also known as:: Her tsu reboynu shel oylam
Author:: Barditshever, Reb Levi Yitskhok — באַרדיטשעװער, רעב לוי יצחק
Composer:: Barditshever, Reb Levi Yitskhok — באַרדיטשעװער, רעב לוי יצחק
Genre:: Khasidic/Religious
Subject:: God/Bargain/
Origin:: Kotlyan 43
Transliteration:: Kotlyan 43
Translation:: Kotlyan 43
Music:: Kotlyan 43

On album:: K-116(a)1 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 1)
Track ID:: 35469
Vocal:: Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Explanation/Spoken Word
Length:: 2:17

Shprayz Ikh Mir (Teitelbaum) — שפּרײַז איך מיר (טײַטעלבאום )

Also known as:: Mit Gikhe Trit
Author:: Kahn, Sh. — כּהן, ש.
Composer:: Teitelbaum, Eliyahu — אליהו טײַטעלבאום
Genre:: Drinking
Subject:: Drinking/Market Day/Fair/Horse/Inn
Origin:: Alb L-001(a)/ML MTAG 70/Alb K-051(e)
Transliteration:: Alb L-001(a)/ML MTAG 70/Alb K-051(e)/Alb K-26(d)2/Alb P-038(a)/Alb S-098(b)
Translation:: Alb K-26(d)2/Alb K-051(e)/Alb S-098(b)/Ephemera 1566 (p 19
Music:: ML MTAG 70

On album:: K-116(a)1 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 1)
Track ID:: 35472
Vocal:: Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Explanation/Spoken Word
Length:: 0:19

Baym Altn Trenkl In Dem Shenkl — בײַם אַלטן טרענקל אין דעם שענקל

Genre:: Drinking/Folk
Subject:: Tavern/Musician/Melody/Prayer

On album:: K-116(a)1 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 1)
Track ID:: 35474
Vocal:: Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Explanation/Spoken Word
Length:: 0:44

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"

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

Genzelekh — גענזעלעך

Also known as:: Dort Baym Taykhl
Also known as:: Genzen Pashen
Genre:: Folk/Occupation
Subject:: Love/Geese/Gander/Arranged Marriage/Protest/Flock/Herder
Origin:: Alb R-024(d)/Alb O-001(b)
Transliteration:: WEVD 20/R-024(d)/Irza 3
Music:: Irza 3

On album:: K-116(a)1 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 1)
Track ID:: 35480
Vocal:: Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Introduction/Explanation

Shapiro Wine

Genre:: Radio Advertisement
Subject:: Wine
Additional song notes:: Part of "Kosher Food in Radio" from Yiddish Radio Recordings, Henry Sapoznik and The Yiddish Radio Project

On album:: A-048(a) (All for you: collection of love songs — הכל בשבילך: אוסף שירי אהבה)
Track ID:: 31715
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Jingle/Spoken Word

Kon — קאָן

Author:: Der Tunkler — דער טונקלער
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous/Satire
Subject:: Blame/Anti Semite

On album:: R-050(a) (Rogow /Taybele and Her Demon And Other Selections From Yiddish Literature — טײַבעלע און הורמיזאַ און אַנדערע שאַפֿונגען פֿון דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 32639
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
First line:: Oyf vifl di gantse velt ligt unter an aynflus fun yidn un yidntim.
First line (Yiddish):: אויף וויפֿל די גאַנצע וועלט ליגט אונטער אַן אײַנפֿלוס פֿון ייִדן אן ייִדענטום,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 6:33

Briv Fun Menakhem Mendl — בריוו פֿון מנחם־מינדל

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous
Subject:: Letters/Correspondence/Wife/Sheyne Sheyndl/Occupations

On album:: R-050(a) (Rogow /Taybele and Her Demon And Other Selections From Yiddish Literature — טײַבעלע און הורמיזאַ און אַנדערע שאַפֿונגען פֿון דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 32640
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 17:49

Echad Mi Yodaya (Koller) — אחד מי יוֹדע (קאָלער)

Genre:: Peysekh/Holiday/Religious/Counting/Cumulative
Subject:: God/Tablets/Forefathers/Foremothers/Torah/Mishna/Week/Bris/
Origin:: Coopersmith NJS 60/Hadag Samuel 70
Transliteration:: Coopersmith NJS 60
Translation:: Coopersmith NJS 60/Hagad Samuel 70
Additional song notes:: subject cont'd: Childbirth/Commandments/Stars/Tribes/God's Attributes

On album:: K-116(a)2 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 2)
Track ID:: 35482
Vocal:: Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Explanation/Spoken Word
Length:: 0:22

Monolog In Pleinem Yidish — מאָנאָלאָג אין פּלעינעם ייִדיש

Also known as:: Monologue In Plain Yiddish
Author:: Zeitlin, Aaron — צײַטלין, אַהרן
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Assimilation/Memory/Immigrant/Loss?Yiddish

On album:: R-050(a) (Rogow /Taybele and Her Demon And Other Selections From Yiddish Literature — טײַבעלע און הורמיזאַ און אַנדערע שאַפֿונגען פֿון דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 32641
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
First line:: Sure bin yakh a lantsman, mister tsaytlin, az yakh bin avek fun varshe, mind you
First line (Yiddish):: שור, בין יאַך אַ לאַנצמאַן, מיסטער צײַטלין, אַז יאַך בין אַטטעק פֿון וואַרשע, מײַנד יו,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 7:41

Yerusholayim (Grade) — ירושלים (גראַדע)

Author:: Grade, Chaim — גראַגע, חײם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Lament
Subject:: Cities/Loss/Jerusalem/Meaning

On album:: R-050(a) (Rogow /Taybele and Her Demon And Other Selections From Yiddish Literature — טײַבעלע און הורמיזאַ און אַנדערע שאַפֿונגען פֿון דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 32642
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
First line:: Dayn tokhter blume lebt nit mer, yerushalayim
First line (Yiddish):: דײַן טאָכטער בלומע לעבט ניט מער, ירושלים,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 7:41

Fulklur Un Filulugye — פּולקלור און פֿילולוגיע

Author:: Der Tunkler — דער טונקלער
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous/Satire
Subject:: Lingusitics
Additional song notes:: Parodies Yiddish scholar Noyekh Prilutski's style and works.

On album:: R-050(a) (Rogow /Taybele and Her Demon And Other Selections From Yiddish Literature — טײַבעלע און הורמיזאַ און אַנדערע שאַפֿונגען פֿון דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)
Track ID:: 32643
Vocal:: Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 10:41

Der Alter Man — דער אַלטער מאַן

Genre:: Occupation
Subject:: Shulklopfer/Messenger/Slikhos/Prayer

On album:: K-116(a)2 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 2)
Track ID:: 35485
Vocal:: Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Spoken Word/Explanation
Length:: 0:29

Ikh Gey Mir Aroys In Dem Feld — איך גיי מיר אַרויס אין דעם פֿעלד

Genre:: Lament
Subject:: Solitary/Memory/Poverty/Family/Money

On album:: K-116(a)2 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 2)
Track ID:: 35486
Vocal:: Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Spoken Word/Explanation
Length:: 0:21

Yenkele — יענקעלע

Genre:: Thieves Song
Subject:: Thieves/Father/Son/Advice/Reform/Refusal

On album:: K-116(a)2 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 2)
Track ID:: 35491
Vocal:: Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Explanation/Spoken Word
Length:: 0:47

Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman: Harbstlid — ביילע שעגטער־גאָטעסמאַן; האַרבדטליד

Author:: Schaechter-Gottesman, Beyle — שעכטער־גאָטעסמאַן, בײלע
Genre:: Literary Origin/Interview
Subject:: Painting/Poetry/Music

On album:: V0061
Track ID:: 33706
Vocal:: Schaechter-Gottesman, Beyle — שעכטער־גאָטעסמאַן, בײלע
Interviewer:: Gottesman, Itzik — גאָטעסמאַן, איציק
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Interview/Spoken Word
Length:: 72;00

Keyn Mol Nisht Fargesn... — קײן מאָל נישט פֿאָרגעסן

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Memory/Literature
Additional song notes:: From the preface to Sholom Aleichem's "Di Shtot Fun Di Kleyne Mentshelekh"

On album:: V0062 (Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh/ Di Dray Shmuliks (Video) — שלום עליכם \ די קליינע מענטשעלעך \ די דרײַ שמואליקס)
Track ID:: 33710
Vocal:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Kasrilevker Restoranen — כּתריאלעװקער רעסטאָראַנען

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humor/
Subject:: Food/Restuarants/Hunger/Frustration
Translation:: AL IK 44

On album:: V0062 (Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh/ Di Dray Shmuliks (Video) — שלום עליכם \ די קליינע מענטשעלעך \ די דרײַ שמואליקס)
Track ID:: 33711
Vocal:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Vocal:: Di Dray Shmueliks — די דרײ שמואליקס
Vocal:: Rudensky, Shmuel — רודענסקי, שמואל
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Drite Klas — דריטע קלאַס

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humor
Subject:: Train/Travelers/Stories/Confusion

On album:: V0062 (Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh/ Di Dray Shmuliks (Video) — שלום עליכם \ די קליינע מענטשעלעך \ די דרײַ שמואליקס)
Track ID:: 33712
Vocal:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Vocal:: Di Dray Shmueliks — די דרײ שמואליקס
Vocal:: Rudensky, Shmuel — רודענסקי, שמואל
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Konkurentn — קאָנקורענטן

Also known as:: Competitors
Also known as:: Di Konkurentn
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous
Song comment:: Railraod/Food/Occupation/Curses/Maledictions/Competitors/Husband/Wife
Additional song notes:: From "Eyzenban Geshiktn"

On album:: V0062 (Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh/ Di Dray Shmuliks (Video) — שלום עליכם \ די קליינע מענטשעלעך \ די דרײַ שמואליקס)
Track ID:: 33713
Vocal:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Vocal:: Di Dray Shmueliks — די דרײ שמואליקס
Vocal:: Rudensky, Shmuel — רודענסקי, שמואל
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Dos Reydele Dreyt Zikh (Aleichem) — דאָס ריידעלע דרייט זיך (עליכם)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Menakm Mendl/Business/Investment/Loss/SavingsMoney/Family/

On album:: V0062 (Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh/ Di Dray Shmuliks (Video) — שלום עליכם \ די קליינע מענטשעלעך \ די דרײַ שמואליקס)
Track ID:: 33714
Vocal:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Vocal:: Di Dray Shmueliks — די דרײ שמואליקס
Vocal:: Rudensky, Shmuel — רודענסקי, שמואל
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Di Shtot Fun Di Kleyne Mentshelekh — די שטאָט פֿון די קלײנע מענטשעלעך

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Description/Place/PovertyPrimitave/Institutions/Types/
Translation:: Graf 154

On album:: V0062 (Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh/ Di Dray Shmuliks (Video) — שלום עליכם \ די קליינע מענטשעלעך \ די דרײַ שמואליקס)
Track ID:: 33715
Vocal:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Vocal:: Di Dray Shmueliks — די דרײ שמואליקס
Vocal:: Rudensky, Shmuel — רודענסקי, שמואל
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Freylekh Zayn Dos Heyst Der Rebe — פֿריילעך זײַן דאָס הייסט דער רעבע

Genre:: Celebratory
Subject:: Simkhe/Mitzva/Khasidim/Joyous

On album:: K116(a)2
Track ID:: 35493
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Explanation/Spoken Word
Length:: 0:16

Shadkhn Lid — שדכן ליד

Genre:: Folk
Subject:: Marriage/Groom/Bride/Matchmaker

On album:: K-116(a)2 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 2)
Track ID:: 35495
Vocal:: Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Explanation/Spoken Word
Length:: 0:29

Sholom Aleichem Will

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Testiment/Historical/Literary Origin
Subject:: Ethical Will/Instruction

On album:: V0057 (Sholom Aleichem Yortsayt 90th — שלום עליכם יאָרצײַט 90סטן)
Track ID:: 33135
Vocal:: Marcus, Audrey
Vocal:: Weiner, Benjamin
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word

Sholom Aleichem Yortsayt Introduction

Author:: Cassel, Andy
Subject:: Philadelphia Connection/History/

On album:: V0057 (Sholom Aleichem Yortsayt 90th — שלום עליכם יאָרצײַט 90סטן)
Track ID:: 33136
Vocal:: Cassel, Andy
First line:: I better talk English. I want to thank Haverford College...,
First line (English):: שלום עליכם, בּרוך הבּא, ס'איז זייער טאַקע אַ גרויס פֿאַרגענעגען…
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Tiv Taf — טיוו טאַף

Genre:: Lament/Folk
Subject:: Poverty/Wife/Curses/No Customers

On album:: K-116(a)2 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 2)
Track ID:: 35497
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Explanation/Spoken Word
Length:: 0:24

Geganvet An Indik — געגאַנבעט אַן אינדיק

Genre:: Humorous/Folk
Subject:: Poverty/Theft/Turkey/Neighbor/Shabos/Conscience/Hunger

On album:: K-116(a)2 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 2)
Track ID:: 35499
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Explanation/Spoken Word
Length:: 0:18

A Gevirish Khasene — אַ גבירישע חתונה

Genre:: Celebratory
Subject:: Wedding/Badkhen/Drushe Geshank/Gifts/Food

On album:: K-116(a)2 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 2)
Track ID:: 35501
Vocal:: Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Explanation/Spoken Word
Length:: 0:41

Be-kol Shofar — בקול שופר

Author:: de la Fuente, Maurice
Genre:: Religious/Biblical
Subject:: Abraham/Isaac/Sacrifice
Additional song notes:: Biblical story of the Akeyda in song. See Genesis 022.

On album:: N-030(a) (The Noam Singers Feature the Hebrew Version of Those Were The Days — כאלה היו הימים)
Track ID:: 33572
Guitar/Arranger:: Schwartz, Steve
Vocal:: Meller, Izzy
Electric Bass Guitar:: Goldstein, Jay
Tof:: Leifer, Shmuel
Artist:: Noam Singers
Vocal/Guitar:: Frank, Morty
First line:: בקול שופר ישמיע ישועה, יום זה זכות לבני עמך,
Language:: Hebrew/English
Style:: Pop/Spoken Word
Length:: 4:52

Tuen — טוען

Genre:: Drinking/Folk
Subject:: Whiskey/Booze/Cookies

On album:: K-116(a)2 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 2)
Track ID:: 35503
Vocal:: Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Explanation/Spoken Word
Length:: 0:32

In Tsentral Park — אין צענטראַל פּאַרק

Also known as:: In Central Park
Author:: Halpern, Moyshe Leyb — האַלפּערן, משה לײב
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Place/Memory/Alienation/Urban/Foreigner
Origin:: B-036(c)
Translation:: B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33445
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: Ver iz shuldik in dos vos men zet nit dayn boym, gortn in shney, mayn gortn in..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:57

Undzer Gortn — אונדזער גאָרטן

Also known as:: Our Garden
Author:: Halpern, Moyshe Leyb — האַלפּערן, משה לײב
Composer:: Levin, Leibu — לעװין, לײבו
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Garden/Artificiality/Guard/Bird/Flightless/Tiny/Guard
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)/Levin L WM 160/Alb L-044(c)
Transliteration:: Levin L WM 160/Alb L-044(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)/Levin L WM 160/Alb L-044(c)
Music:: Levin L WM 160
Additional song notes:: Our Garden

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33446
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
English Adaption:: Harshav, Benjamin
English Adaption:: Harshav, Barbara
First line:: What a garden, where the tree is bare, but for its seven leaves, and it seems…
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:22

Undzer Gortn — אונדזער גאָרטן

Also known as:: Our Garden
Author:: Halpern, Moyshe Leyb — האַלפּערן, משה לײב
Composer:: Levin, Leibu — לעװין, לײבו
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Garden/Artificiality/Guard/Bird/Flightless/Tiny/Guard
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)/Levin L WM 160/Alb L-044(c)
Transliteration:: Levin L WM 160/Alb L-044(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)/Levin L WM 160/Alb L-044(c)
Music:: Levin L WM 160
Additional song notes:: Our Garden

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33447
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: Aza golden gute boym, hot zikh zibn bletlekh koym, un es dakht zikh az er…
First line (Yiddish):: אַזאַ גאָלדען גוטע בוים, האָט זיך זיבן בלעטלעך קוים, און עס דאַכט אַז ער טראַגט
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:21

Watch Your Step (Halpern) — װאַטש יאָר סטעפ (האַלפּערן)

Author:: Halpern, Moyshe Leyb — האַלפּערן, משה לײב
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Hurry/Time/Speed/Trains/Desire
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33448
First line:: Time is gold in the Golden Land, the ring of a bell and the wave of a hand,
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:45

Flign — פֿליגן

Genre:: Lament
Subject:: Love/Rejection/Flies/Depression/Melancholy

On album:: K-116(a)2 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 2)
Track ID:: 35505
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Explanation/Spoken Word

Khap Nisht — כאַפּ נישט

Genre:: Folk
Subject:: Warning/Enemies/Water/Jug/Rebbe/Theft
Additional song notes:: May be a folksong adapted by Shterheim

On album:: K-116(a)2 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 2)
Track ID:: 35507
Language:: English
Style:: Introduction/Explanation/Spoken Word
Length:: 0:45

Sholom Aleichem Letter to Bialik

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Humorous/Letter/Literary Origin
Subject:: Bedroom Slippers/Claims

On album:: V0057 (Sholom Aleichem Yortsayt 90th — שלום עליכם יאָרצײַט 90סטן)
Track ID:: 33138
Vocal:: Turiansky, Chava
Vocal:: Hellerstein, Dr Kathryn
First line:: Oy, bialik, bialik, ir zent avekgeforn punkt vi in vaser arayn,
First line (Yiddish):: אוי, ביאַליק, ביאַליק, איר זענט אַוועקגעפֿאָרן פּונקט ווי אין וואַסער אַרײַן,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Mister Green Hot A Job — מיסטער גרין האָט אַ דזאָב

On album:: V0057 (Sholom Aleichem Yortsayt 90th — שלום עליכם יאָרצײַט 90סטן)
Track ID:: 33139
Vocal:: Alsher, Mark
First line:: How do you do, mister sholom aleichem, ikh veys nit oyb ir kent mir,
First line (Yiddish):: האָו דאָ יו דאָ, מיסטער שלום עליכם, איך ווייס ניט אויב איר קענט מיך,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Alef-An Odler — אַלף־אַן אָדלער

Genre:: Folk/Children/Counting Rhyme
Origin:: Alb A-053(a)
Transliteration:: Alb A-053(a)
Translation:: Alb A-053(a)

On album:: A-053(a) (The Upward Flight/ The Musical World of S. An-sky/ Michael Alpert/ Stuart Brotman)
Track ID:: 33141
Vocal:: Yiddish Children's Chorus, St Petersburg
First line:: Alef-an odler, beys-a bonder, giml-a glekl,
First line (Yiddish):: אַלף, אַן אָדלער, בּית־אַ באָנדער, גימל־אַ גלעקל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Counting Rhyme
Length:: 0:12

A Rud Un A Ran — אַ ראָד אין אַ ראַן

Also known as:: A Wheel In A Pan
Genre:: Children/Folk/Rhyme
Subject:: Wheel/Pan/Backside/Tukhes
Origin:: Alb A-053(a)
Transliteration:: Alb A-053(a)
Translation:: Alb A-053(a)
Additional song notes:: A Wheel And A Pan

On album:: A-053(a) (The Upward Flight/ The Musical World of S. An-sky/ Michael Alpert/ Stuart Brotman)
Track ID:: 33124
Vocal:: Yiddish Children's Chorus, St Petersburg
First line:: A rod un a ran, ikh shtey mikh tsu zan, bay riva's verter, mayn tukhes aran.
First line (Yiddish):: אַ ראָד און אַ ראַן, איך שטיי מיך צו זאַן, באַ ריוועס ווערטער מיטן תחת אַראַן
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Folk/Spoken Word
Length:: 1:07

Siudy Baran Siudy Baran

Also known as:: This Way Ram This Way Ram
Genre:: Folk/Children/Rhyme/Macaronic
Subject:: Ram/Sheep/Price/Slap
Origin:: Alb A-053(a)
Transliteration:: Alb A-053(a)
Translation:: Alb A-053(a)
Additional song notes:: This Way Ram This Way Ram

On album:: A-053(a) (The Upward Flight/ The Musical World of S. An-sky/ Michael Alpert/ Stuart Brotman)
Track ID:: 33125
First line:: Siudy baran, suidi baran, kh'hob a shepsl tsu farkoyfn.
First line:: סיודי באַראַן, סיודי באַראַן, כ'האָב אַ שעפּסל צו פֿאַרקויפֿן.
Language:: Yiddish/Russian
Style:: Folk/Spoken Word
Length:: 1:07

Odm — אָדם

Also known as:: Adam
Author:: Dropkin, Celia — דראַבקין, ציליע
Genre:: Literary Origin/Sensous
Subject:: Passion/Fear/Submission
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33437
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: A tselozenes, an oysgetsertltn fun file froyen-hent, hob ikh dikh oyf mayn veg..
First line (Yiddish):: אַ צעלאָזענעס, אַן אויסגעצערטלטן פֿון פֿילע פֿרויען־הענט, האָב איך דיך אויך מײַן
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:55

Vays Vi Der Shney — ווײַס ווי דער שניי

Also known as:: Like Snow On The Alps
Author:: Dropkin, Celia — דראַבקין, ציליע
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Beauty/Snow/Rejection
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33438
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
English Adaptation:: Schulman, Grace
First line:: Like snow on the Alps, sharp as mountain air, like heady old balms,
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:53

Vays Vi Der Shney — ווײַס ווי דער שניי

Also known as:: Like Snow On The Alps
Author:: Dropkin, Celia — דראַבקין, ציליע
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Beauty/Snow/Rejection
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33439
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: Vays vi der shney oyf di alpn, sharf, vid di bargike luft,
First line (Yiddish):: ווײַס ווי דער שניי אוף די אַלפּן, שאַרף ווי די באַרגיקע לופֿט,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:53

Mir Shtamen Fun Felzun — מיר שטאַמען פֿון פֿעלזון

Also known as:: We Spring From Rocks
Author:: Hofshteyn, Dovid — האָפֿשטײַן, דוד
Genre:: Literary Origin/USSR
Subject:: Rocks/Change/Future/
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33440
Vocal/English Adaption:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: We spring from rocks, ground by the millstones of time,
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:55

Mir Shtamen Fun Felzun — מיר שטאַמען פֿון פֿעלזון

Also known as:: We Spring From Rocks
Author:: Hofshteyn, Dovid — האָפֿשטײַן, דוד
Genre:: Literary Origin/USSR
Subject:: Rocks/Change/Future/
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33441
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: Mir shtamen fun feldzn, tsemoltn fun milshteyn fun tsaytn,
First line (Yiddish):: מיר שטאַמען פֿון פֿעלדזן, צעמאָלטן פֿון מילשטיין פֿון צײַטן,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:55

Fargeyt Ir Umetike Zeydes — פֿאַרגייט איר אומעטיקע זיידעס

Also known as:: Pass On You Lonely Grandfathers
Author:: Kharik, Izi — כאַריק, איזי
Genre:: Literary Origin/USSR
Subject:: Grandfathers/Shtetl/Disappearance/Grief/Fear/Hope/Change
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33442
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
English Adaptation:: Wolf, Leonard
First line:: Pass on, pass on you lonely grandfathers with frightened beards,
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:10

In Tsentral Park — אין צענטראַל פּאַרק

Also known as:: In Central Park
Author:: Halpern, Moyshe Leyb — האַלפּערן, משה לײב
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Place/Memory/Alienation/Urban/Foreigner
Origin:: B-036(c)
Translation:: B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33443
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
English Adaption:: Hollander, John
First line:: Whose fault is it that your tree can't be seen, garden of snow, my garden of sno
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:17

Fargeyt Ir Umetike Zeydes — פֿאַרגייט איר אומעטיקע זיידעס

Also known as:: Pass On You Lonely Grandfathers
Author:: Kharik, Izi — כאַריק, איזי
Genre:: Literary Origin/USSR
Subject:: Grandfathers/Shtetl/Disappearance/Grief/Fear/Hope/Change
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33444
First line:: Fargeyt, fargeyt ir umetike zeydes, mit berd tseshrokene, farlofene mit shney,
First line (Yiddish):: פֿאַרגייט, פֿאַרגייט איר אומעטיקע זיידעס, מיט בערד צערשראָקענע, פֿאַרלאָפֿענע מיט
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:01

Shpiltsayg — שפּילצײַג

Also known as:: Toys
Author:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
Composer:: Kornecka, Ewa
Genre:: Literary Origin/Holocaust/Lament
Subject:: Toys/Dolls/Pony/Orphans/Children/
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)/Alb S-016(a)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)/AlbT-015(a)/Penguin YID 692/Alb P-038€
Additional song notes:: Toys

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33424
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
English Adaptation:: Bloch, Chana
First line:: My daughter, you must care for your toys, poor things, they're even smaller…
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:06

Boiberik Cheer Yabadibe Dabadiba Day — בויבעריק וויוואַט יעבאַדלבע דאַבאַדלבאַ דײַ

Genre:: Boiberik Cheer
Origin:: Boiberik Z 35

On album:: B-061(b) (Boiberik Zingt, a dermanung / Moyshe Khalfn, Boiberik 1926-1936 — בויבעריק זינגט, אַ דערמאָנונג\ משה כאַלפֿן, בויבעריק 1926-1936)
Track ID:: 32514
Vocal:: Khalfn, Moyshe — כאַלפֿן, משה
First line:: Yabadibe dabadiba dabadiba day,
First line (Yiddish):: יעבאַדיבע דאַבאַדעבאַ דאַבאַדעבאַ דײַ,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0;20

Badkhones (Warshavsky) — בדחנות (וואַרשאַווסקי)

Author:: Warshavsky, Mark M. — װאַרשאַװסקי, מאָרק מ.
Genre:: Folk/Literary Origin
Subject:: Bride/Groom/Marriage/Warning/Passages
Transliteration:: Alb W-021(d)
Translation:: Alb W-021(d)
Additional song notes:: Part of Medley titled "Slonim Nigun/Badkhones/Yossi's Nigun"

On album:: W-021(d) (The Strauss/Warschauer Duo / Rejoicing / Yiddish Songs and Klezmer Music)
Track ID:: 33696
Vocal/Arranger/Guitar Mandolin:: Warschauer, Jeff
Violin/Accordion/Arranger:: Strauss, Deborah
First line:: Du bist dem khosn gefeln, varum du bist dokh sheyn un fayn,
First line (Yiddish):: דו ביסט דעם חתן געפֿכלן, וואַרום דו ביסט דאָך שיין און פֿײַן,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 5:12

Oyf Der Stantsie Kolomey — אױף דער סטאַנציע קאָלאָמײ

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Composer:: Stiman, Emma
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Railway Station/Place/Netherworld/GrandparentsVisitor/Poet
Origin:: Manger 326/Alb P-065(a)
Transliteration:: Alb P-065(a)
Translation:: Alb P-065(a)/Ephemera 1296
Additional song notes:: At The Kolomey Train Station / From "Demerung In Shpigl" דעמערונג אין שפּיגל The Darkening Mirror

On album:: P-065(a) (Andrea Pancur/ Federmentsh/Lider Fun Yidishland — פֿעדערמענטש)
Track ID:: 35518
Clarinet:: Brinkmann, Georg
Accordion:: Lampe, Franka
Arranger:: Stiman, Emma
First line:: Oyf der stantsie kolomey tsvishn a gantser eyde, shteyn gehoykerte shotns tsvey
First line (Yiddish):: אױף דער סטאַנציע קאָלאָמײ, צװישן אַ גאַנצער עדה, שטייען געהויקערטע שאָטנס צוויי
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:30

Der Mensh Trakht Un Lakht — דער מענש טראַכט און לאַכט

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Composer:: Alpert, Michael — אַלפּערט, מישקע
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Poetry/The Familiar/Beggers/Warmth/Cold/Brides
Origin:: Alb R-034(h)
Transliteration:: Alb R-034(h)
Translation:: Alb R-034(h)
Additional song notes:: Two verses of Manger's "Lomir Zhe Zingen"

On album:: R-034(h) (Brave Old World/ Bless The Fire)
Track ID:: 32573
Artist:: Brave Old World
Musical Director/Piano/Accordion/Melodica:: Bern, Alan
Violin/Percussion/Vocal:: Alpert, Michael — אַלפּערט, מישקע
Clarinet/Bassett Horn:: Bjorling, Kurt
Bass/Tsimbl/Tilinca:: Brotman, Stuart
First line:: Lomir zhe zingen, poshet un prost, fun alts, vos iz heymish lib un tayer
First line:: לאָמיר זשה זינגען, פּשוט און פּראָסט, פֿון אַלץ, װאָס איז הײמיש...
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: New Jewish Music/Spoken Word
Length:: 7:41

Gerrold Frank/Visit to Poland (Video)

Author:: Frank, Gerrold
Genre:: Documentary/Travel
Subject:: Family/Memory
Additional song notes:: See Ephemara 1026

On album:: V-0205
Track ID:: 35824
Vocal:: Frank, Gerrold
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Chanin, Caroline Radio Interview

Genre:: Interview
Subject:: Caroline Chanin CD

On album:: C-044(b) (Caroline Chanin Radio Interview)
Track ID:: 31772
Vocal:: Chanin, Caroline
Vocal/Insterviewer:: Unnamed Interviewer
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 13:12

Nisht Nor Simkhe — נישט נאָר שׂימחה

Author:: Alpert, Michael — אַלפּערט, מישקע
Genre:: Folk/Badkhunish
Subject:: Sorrow/Hate/Envy/War/Depravation/Martyrs
Origin:: Alb R-034(i)
Transliteration:: Alb R-034(i)
Translation:: Alb R-034(i)

On album:: R-034(i) (Brave Old World/Dos Gezang Fin Geto Lodzh/Song Of The Lodz Ghetto/ LODZH — דאָס געזאַנג פֿון געטאָ לאָדז)
Track ID:: 32725
Artist:: Brave Old World
Musical Dirctor/Accordion:: Bern, Alan
Clarinet:: Bjorling, Kurt
Vocal:: Alpert, Michael — אַלפּערט, מישקע
First line:: Un ersht libe mentshn, hert gut mayn vort ayn, az s'iz haynt oyf der velt…
First line (Yiddish):: און ערשט ליבע מענטשן, הערט גוט מײַן וואָרט אײַן, אַז ס'איז הײַנט אויף דער וועלט...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/ Sorrowful Instrumental - A "Veynendiks"
Length:: 4:57

Meydlekh In Krotono Park — מיידלעך אין קראָטאָנאָ־פּאַרק

Also known as:: Girls In Crotono Park
Author:: Margolin, Anna — מאַרגאָלין, אַנאַ
Genre:: Literary Origin/Romantic/Suggestive
Subject:: Girls/Park/Appearance/Gossip/Colors/Youth
Origin:: Alb B-036/Margolin 150
Translation:: Alb B-036/Margolin 151
Additional song notes:: From "Sun, Asphalt, Roads"

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33432
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: In harbstikn farnakht hobn meydlekh zikh farlebt vi in volkn bild,
First line (Yiddish):: אין האַבסטיקן פֿאַרנאַכט באָבן מיידלעף זיף פֿאַרלעבט ווי אין וואָלקן בילד,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:37

Antrakt — אַנטראַקט

Also known as:: Entr'acte
Also known as:: Entre'Acte
Author:: Margolin, Anna — מאַרגאָלין, אַנאַ
Genre:: Literary Origin/Sensous
Subject:: Talk/Stalking/Feeling/Seduction/Imagination
Translation:: Alb B-036/Margolin 230

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33433
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
English Adaptation:: Falk, Marcia
First line:: The delicate weave of clever talk, like a spiderweb shaken by wind,
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:25

Antrakt — אַנטראַקט

Also known as:: Entr'acte
Also known as:: Entre'Acte
Author:: Margolin, Anna — מאַרגאָלין, אַנאַ
Genre:: Literary Origin/Sensous
Subject:: Talk/Stalking/Feeling/Seduction/Imagination
Translation:: Alb B-036/Margolin 230

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33434
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: Di eydele geveb fun klugn shmues, vi shpiverb durkhgetsitert fun a vint,
First line (Yiddish):: די איידעלע געוועב פֿון קלוגן שמועס, ווי שפּינוועב דורכגעציטערט פֿון אַ וונט,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:21

Odm — אָדם

Also known as:: Adam
Author:: Dropkin, Celia — דראַבקין, ציליע
Genre:: Literary Origin/Sensous
Subject:: Passion/Fear/Submission
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33435
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
English Adaptation:: Schulman, Grace
First line:: I met you on the way, young adam, fondled, soothed by women's hands,
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:43

David Ben-Gurion / Speech 1962

Genre:: Polemic/Historical
Subject:: Identity/People/State/Loyalty/Immigration/Return/Redemption/

On album:: G-025(b) (David Ben-Gurion / Speech 1962)
Track ID:: 33133
Vocal:: Ben-Gurion, David
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 5:59

Charlotte Yiddish Institute/Bar Mitzvah

Genre:: Video/Documentary
Subject:: Activities/Classes/Workshops/Interviews

On album:: V0021 (Charlotte Yiddish Institute 1991; Bar Mitzvah Year Celebration (Video))
Track ID:: 33946
Producer/Director/Speaker:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
Music:: VIVA KLEZMER
Speaker:: Mlotek, Zalmen — מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)
Speaker:: Norich, Anita
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 87:00

Lost Jewish Music of Phila. (Video)

Genre:: Documentary/Klezmer
Subject:: Regional Sound/Klezmer

On album:: V0035
Track ID:: 33948
Executive Producer:: Popkin, Susan A.
Performer/Speaker:: Borock, Joe
Producer/Director:: Borock, Jackie
Performer/Narrator:: Netsky, Hankus
Performer/Speaker:: Watts, Elaine Hoffman
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Concert/Klezmer
Length:: 26:00

Tevye Shmuest Mit Golde'n — טביה שמועסט מיט גאָלדע'ן

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous/Tragic
Subject:: Husband/Wife/Conversation/Tevye/Golde/Sickness/Death

On album:: B-047(c)1 (Joseph Buloff On Stage Cassette 1 — יוסף בולאָף אױף דער בינע קאַסעטע 1)
Track ID:: 33082
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Golde, Golde, du shlofst? Shluf, shluf, tayere,
First line (Yiddish):: גאָלדע, גאָלגע, דו שלאָפֿסט? שלאָפֿ, שלאָפֿ, טײַערע,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologue
Length:: 15:27

Tevye Shmuest Mit Got — טביה שמועסט מיט גאָט

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Laments
Subject:: Conversation/Tevye/God/Compalints/Sorrows/Troubles

On album:: B-047(c)1 (Joseph Buloff On Stage Cassette 1 — יוסף בולאָף אױף דער בינע קאַסעטע 1)
Track ID:: 33083
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Akh, du reboynu shel olam, vos tustu oyf dayn tevye, vos?
First line (Yiddish):: אַך, דו, רבונו של עלום, וואָס טוסטו אויף דײַן טביה
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologue
Length:: 4:43

Tevye Mit Zayn Tekhter — טבֿיה מיט זײַן טעכטער

Also known as:: Tevye And His Daughters
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Tevye/Daughters

On album:: B-047(d)1 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD1 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 1)
Track ID:: 33084
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Track comment:: Recorded live in Israel March 14, 1967
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 18:22

Szlanger, Lea: Buloff Introduction — שלאַנגער, לאה: אַרײַנפֿיר וואַרט

Genre:: Introduction
Subject:: Buloff/Career

On album:: B-047(d)1 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD1 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 1)
Track ID:: 33085
Vocal:: Szlanger, Lea — שלאַנגער, לאה
Track comment:: Recorded live in Israel, March 14, 1967
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:30

Tevye Shmuest Mit Got — טביה שמועסט מיט גאָט

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Laments
Subject:: Conversation/Tevye/God/Compalints/Sorrows/Troubles

On album:: B-047(d)1 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD1 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 1)
Track ID:: 33086
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Akh, du reboynu shel olam, vos tustu oyf dayn tevye, vos?
First line (Yiddish):: אַך, דו, רבונו של עלום, וואָס טוסטו אויף דײַן טביה
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologue
Length:: 4:43

Originality of Jewish Music

Author:: Bogdanski, Majer — באָגדאַנסקי, מאיר
Genre:: Lecture/Recital

On album:: B-090(v)1 (Majer Bogdansky / Originality of Jewish Music)
Track ID:: 32412
Vocal:: Bogdanski, Majer — באָגדאַנסקי, מאיר
Language:: English
Style:: Lecture Recital/Spoken Word/Sung Examples/Acapella

Originality of Jewish Music

Author:: Bogdanski, Majer — באָגדאַנסקי, מאיר
Genre:: Lecture/Recital

On album:: B-090(v)2 (Majer Bogdansky / Originality of Jewish Music)
Track ID:: 32413
Vocal:: Bogdanski, Majer — באָגדאַנסקי, מאיר
Language:: English
Style:: Lecture Recital/Spoken Word/Sung Examples/Acapella

Isaac In America

On album:: V0032
Track ID:: 33860
Producer:: Simon, Kirk
Director:: Nowak, Amram
Narrator:: Hirsch, Judd
Performer:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Music:: Levinson, Ross
Language:: English
Style:: Documentary/Spoken Word
Length:: 56:00

Vayber,Yente Geyt Oyf Milkhome

On album:: 052w (Gold, Clara/Goldstein, Gus/ Vayber,Yente Geyt Oyf Milkhome/ Shvayg, Telebende)
Track ID:: 30289
Vocal:: Gold, Clara — גאָלד, קלאַראַ
Vocal:: Goldstein, Gus
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Humorous/Spoken Word

Shvayg, Telebende

Author:: Kovner, Abba — קאָװנער, אַבאַ

On album:: 052w (Gold, Clara/Goldstein, Gus/ Vayber,Yente Geyt Oyf Milkhome/ Shvayg, Telebende)
Track ID:: 30290
Vocal:: Gold, Clara — גאָלד, קלאַראַ
Vocal:: Goldstein, Gus
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Humorous/Spoken Word

Der Mesader Kidushin

On album:: 052x (Gold, Clara/Goldstein, Gus/ Der Mesader Kidushin/ A Kale Bazetsn)
Track ID:: 30291
Vocal:: Gold, Clara — גאָלד, קלאַראַ
Vocal:: Goldstein, Gus
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Humorous/Spoken Word

A Kale Bazetsn

On album:: 052x (Gold, Clara/Goldstein, Gus/ Der Mesader Kidushin/ A Kale Bazetsn)
Track ID:: 30292
Vocal:: Gold, Clara — גאָלד, קלאַראַ
Vocal:: Goldstein, Gus
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Humorous/Spoken Word

Originaltet Fun Yidisher Muzik — אָריגינאַליטעט פֿון ייִדישער מוזיק

Author:: Bogdanski, Majer — באָגדאַנסקי, מאיר
Genre:: Lecture

On album:: B-090(w)1 (Majer Bogdanski / Originaltet Fun Yidisher Muzik — באָגדאַנסקי, מאיר \ אָריגינאַליטעט פֿון ייִדישער מוזיק)
Track ID:: 32414
Vocal:: Bogdanski, Majer — באָגדאַנסקי, מאיר
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Lecture Recital/Spoken Word/Sung Examples/Acapella

Originaltet Fun Yidisher Muzik — אָריגינאַליטעט פֿון ייִדישער מוזיק

Author:: Bogdanski, Majer — באָגדאַנסקי, מאיר
Genre:: Lecture

On album:: B-090(w)2 (Majer Bogdanski / Originaltet Fun Yidisher Muzik — באָגדאַנסקי, מאיר \ אָריגינאַליטעט פֿון ייִדישער מוזיק)
Track ID:: 32415
Vocal:: Bogdanski, Majer — באָגדאַנסקי, מאיר
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Lecture Recital/Spoken Word/Sung Examples/Acapella

Ven Di Ovnt Zun Fargeyt — װען די אָװענט זון פֿאַרגײט

Genre:: Boiberik Camp Song/Children
Subject:: Night/Stillness/Stars
Origin:: Boiberik Z 15

On album:: B-061(b) (Boiberik Zingt, a dermanung / Moyshe Khalfn, Boiberik 1926-1936 — בויבעריק זינגט, אַ דערמאָנונג\ משה כאַלפֿן, בויבעריק 1926-1936)
Track ID:: 32478
Vocal:: Khalfn, Moyshe — כאַלפֿן, משה
First line:: Ven di ovnt zun fargeyt, tut zi on ir purpur kleyd, nakht vet bald vern,
First line (Yiddish):: ווען די אָוונט זון פֿאַרגייט, טוט זי אָן איר פּורפּור קלייד, נאַכט וועט באַלד ווערן,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:56

Story Of Khanike

Genre:: Instructional
Subject:: Khanike/Holiday

On album:: C-002(e) (Rabbi Mortimorer Cohen Radio wip Broadcast - Sholom altman - missing — נעגים לחנוקה)
Track ID:: 33169
Vocal:: Cohen, Rabbi Mortimer
First line:: The music of Chanukah is do cheerful and gay
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

On Yidn — אָן ייִדן

Also known as:: Without Jews
Author:: Glatshteyn, Yakov — גלאַטשטײַן, יעקבֿ,
Genre:: Literary Origin/Holocaust
Subject:: Memory/Extinction/
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33422
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
English Adaptation:: Harshav, Benjamin
English Adaptation:: Harshav, Barbara
First line:: Without Jews, there will be no Jewish God, if we go away from the world,
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:30

On Yidn — אָן ייִדן

Also known as:: Without Jews
Author:: Glatshteyn, Yakov — גלאַטשטײַן, יעקבֿ,
Genre:: Literary Origin/Holocaust
Subject:: Memory/Extinction/
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33423
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: On yidn, vet nit zayn keyn yidisher got, geyen mir, kholile, avek fun der velt
First line (Yiddish):: אָן ייִדן, וועט ניט זײַן קיין ייִדיזער גאָט, גייען מיר, חלילה, אַוועק פֿון דער...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:29

A Papir Vil Bageyn Zelbstmord — אַ פּאַפּיר װיל באַגײן זעלבסטמאָרד

Author:: Lutski, Avrom — לוצקי, אַבֿרהם
Composer:: Weiner, Lazar — װײַנער, לאַזאַר
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Paper/Suicide/Fright/
Origin:: Alb W-005(a)
Translation:: Alb W-005(a)/Ephemera 628

On album:: B-047(d)1 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD1 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 1)
Track ID:: 33087
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Fri fartog oyf der puster gas shart zikh a shtikele papir,
First line (Yiddish):: פֿרי פֿאַרטאָג אױף דער פּוסטער גאַס שאַרט זיך אַ שטיקעלע פּאַפּיר,
Track comment:: Recorded live in Israel March 14, 1967
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Tevye Shmuest Mit Golde'n — טביה שמועסט מיט גאָלדע'ן

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous/Tragic
Subject:: Husband/Wife/Conversation/Tevye/Golde/Sickness/Death

On album:: B-047(d)1 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD1 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 1)
Track ID:: 33088
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Golde, Golde, du shlofst? Shluf, shluf, tayere,
First line (Yiddish):: גאָלדע, גאָלגע, דו שלאָפֿסט? שלאָפֿ, שלאָפֿ, טײַערע,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologue
Length:: 15:27

A Tepl Zup — אַ טעפּל זופּ

On album:: B-047(d)1 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD1 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 1)
Track ID:: 33089
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Track comment:: Recorded live in Israel March 14, 1967
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 8:30

Banen — באַנען

Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Train
Additional song notes:: Trains

On album:: B-047(d)1 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD1 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 1)
Track ID:: 33090
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Track comment:: Recorded live in Israel March 14, 1967
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 10:12

Der Oksn Kamf — דער אָקסן קאַמף

Author:: Kupsan — קופּסאַן
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Animal/Bull Fight/Killing/Senselessness/Cruelty
Additional song notes:: The Bull fight

On album:: B-047(d)1 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD1 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 1)
Track ID:: 33091
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Adaptation:: Halpern, Moyshe Leyb — האַלפּערן, משה לײב
Track comment:: Recorded live in Israel March 14, 1967
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 5:15

Der Vint Un Mayn Kapaliush — דער װינט און מײַן קאַפּאַליוש

Genre:

Literary Origin

Additional song notes:

The Wind and My Hat

Related information in folder 468:

Document type:: Translation
Author:: Norman A. Newberg
Comments:: Translation of A. Lutzky's poem, "The Wind and my Hat".

On album:: B-047(d)1 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD1 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 1)
Track ID:: 33092
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Track comment:: Recorded live in Israel March 14, 1967
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 10:12

Lid — ליד

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Identity/Meaning/Memory/
Origin:: Manger 425

On album:: B-047(d)2 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD 2 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 2)
Track ID:: 33095
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Di kvorim blien, un di feygl flien, an alter yidish tam mit a bittern gram,
First line (Yiddish):: די קברים בליִען און די פֿייגל פֿליִען, אַן אַלטער ייִדישער גראַם,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:05

Di Balade Fun Nete Manger Dem... — די באַלאַדע פֿון נטע מאַנגער און דעם שנײַנדעריונג...

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Ballad
Subject:: Duchess/Tailor Apprentice/Opportunity/Loss
Origin:: Manger 405

On album:: B-047(d)2 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD 2 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 2)
Track ID:: 33096
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Amol iz geven a meyse, di meyse iz troyerik un sheyn,
First line (Yiddish):: אַמאָל איז געווען אַ מעשׂה, די מעשׂה איז טרויעריק און שיין
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:45

Kh'hob Zikh Yorn Gevalgert (Bogdanski) — כ'האָב זיך יאָרן געװאַלגערט (באָגדאַנסקי)

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Composer:: Bogdanski, Majer — באָגדאַנסקי, מאיר
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Wanderer/Alienation/Home/Israel
Origin:: Manger 486/Vinkov 7 170
Transliteration:: Vinkov 7 170
Translation:: Jaffe 42/Penguin YID 590/Vinkov 7 172
Music:: Vinkov 7 168

On album:: B-047(d)2 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD 2 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 2)
Track ID:: 33097
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Kh'hob zikh yorn gevalgert in der fremd,
First line (Yiddish):: כ'האָב זיך יאָרן געװאַלגערט אין דער פֿרעמד,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:07

Akedes Itsik — עקידת איציק

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Metaphor
Subject:: Foreboding/Bird/Sacrifice/Grandfather/Lives/Deaths/
Origin:: Manger 311/Sh Sh 413
Translation:: Leftwich GP 543/Sh Sh 412
Additional song notes:: The Sacrafice of Isaac

On album:: B-047(d)2 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD 2 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 2)
Track ID:: 33098
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Vig mikh, vig mikh, blinder gurl, ikh khulem mit ofene oygn,
First line (Yiddish):: וויג מיך, וויג מיך, בלינדער גורל, איך חלום מיט אָפֿענע אויגן, און זע ...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:21

Kh'vel Oyston Di Shikh — כ'װעל אױסטאָן די שיך

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Reconciliation/God/Return/Poet/Rhyme'Shoes/Sorrow/Weeping
Origin:: Vinkov 7 123/Manger 357Sh Sh 421
Transliteration:: Vinkov 7 123
Translation:: Vinkov 7 124/Lefwich 545/Sh Sh 420
Additional song notes:: I'll Take Off My Shoes "From "Volkns Ibern Dakh" (Clouds Over The Roof)

On album:: B-047(d)2 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD 2 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 2)
Track ID:: 33099
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Kh'vel oyston di shikh un dem troyer, un kumen tsu dir…
First line (Yiddish):: כ'װעל אױסטאָן די שיך און דעם טרױער, און קומען צו דיר צוריק--
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:57

Ovnt Lid — אָװנט ליד

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Composer:: Hacken, Emanuel — האַקען, עמנואל
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Evening/Nature/Piety/Poetry/Regrets/Wine
Origin:: Manger Illust/Man Roz 253/Alb A-001(l)/K-096(a)
Transliteration:: Hacken 1 46/Alb A-001(l)/K-096(a)
Translation:: Album B-069(a)/Alb A-001(l)/K-096(a)
Additional song notes:: Evening Song

On album:: B-047(d)2 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD 2 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 2)
Track ID:: 33100
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Shtiler ovnt, tunkl gold, ikh zits baym glezl vayn,
First line (Yiddish):: שטילער אָװנט, טונקל גאָלד, איך זיץ בײַם גלעזל װײַן,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:33

Avrom Ovinu Musert Lutn — אברהם אָבינו מודרט לוטן

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Medresh/Biblical/Literary Origin/Humorous
Subject:: Abraham/Lot/Drunkeness/Reproof/Daughters/Status/Scolding
Origin:: Manger 214
Translation:: Manger Wolf 8/HG TYP 274
Additional song notes:: Forefather Abraham reproves Lot About His Alcoholism

On album:: B-047(d)2 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD 2 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 2)
Track ID:: 33101
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Lut, ikh muz dir zogn s'iz - fe! Du shikurst a yede nakht,
First line (Yiddish):: לוט, איך מוז דיר זגאָן ס'איז ־ פֿע! דו שיכורסט אָ יעדע נאַכט,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:10

Di Balade Fun Iev Dem Tvue-Soykher — די באַלאַדע פֿון איובֿ דעם תּבֿואה־סוחר

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Biblical/Midrash
Subject:: Job/Grain
Origin:: Manger Roz 212
Additional song notes:: The Ballade of Job The Grain Merchant

On album:: B-047(d)2 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD 2 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 2)
Track ID:: 33102
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Tsu iev, dem tvue-soykher, genemt der ershter stofet:
First line (Yiddish):: צו איובֿ, דעם תּבֿואה־סוחר, גענעמט דער ערשטער שטאָפֿעט:
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:08

Eliyahu Hanovi Leyzt Oys...Funem Lambard — אליהו הנבֿיא לייזט אויס...פֿונעם לאָמבאַרד

Genre:: Literary Origin/Legend
Subject:: Elijah/Pawn/Dress/Redemtion/Poverty/Wedding/Joy/Gloom
Origin:: Manger 373
Translation:: Leftwich GP 548
Additional song notes:: From "Clouds Over The Roof"

On album:: B-047(d)2 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD 2 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 2)
Track ID:: 33103
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Vos zingen di groa feygl oyf undzer oremen dakh?
First line (Yiddish):: וואָס זינגען די גראָע פֿייגל אויף אונדזער אָרעמען דאַך?
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:28

Der Kuntsn-Makher — דער קונצן־מאַכער

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Short Story
Subject:: Magician/Poverty/Spoon/Seder/Elijah/Faith/Charity/Passover
Origin:: Per Lip 128/Alb O-004(a)
Translation:: Per Lip 128/Peretz 25

On album:: B-047(d)2 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD 2 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 2)
Track ID:: 33104
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: In a volynia shtetl arayn iz amol gekumen a kuntsn-makher.
First line (Yiddish):: אין אַ וולינער שטעטל אַרײַן איז אַמאָל געקומען אַ קונצן־מאַכער.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 11:54

Odes — אָדעס

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Short Story/Place/Humorous
Subject:: Odessa/Governor/Mechant/Merchandise/Customers/Trickery

On album:: B-047(d)2 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD 2 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 2)
Track ID:: 33105
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Ay, odes, odes, odes, odes, ay dos iz a shtetele odes,
First line (Yiddish):: אײַ אָדעס, אָדעס, אָדעס, אָדעס, אײַ דאָס אַ שטעטעלע אָדעס.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 13:56

Times Square — טיימס סקווער

Author:: Krivitsky, David — קריוויטסקי, דוד
Genre:: Literary Origin/Place
Subject:: Times Square/Subway/IRT/BMT/Crowds/Noise/Impersonal/
Additional song notes:: Written when fares were 5 cents.

On album:: B-047(d)2 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD 2 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 2)
Track ID:: 33106
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: In der leyng un in der breyt, nor me geyt, nor me geyt,
First line (Yiddish):: אין דער ליינג און אין דער ברייט, נאָר מע גייט, נאָר מע גייט,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 6:16

Neyle In Tsekhanovke — נעילה אין ציעכאַנאָווקע

Author:: Der Tunkler — דער טונקלער
Genre:: Literary Origin/Place/Humorous
Subject:: Yom Kippur/Neyle/Prayer/Requests/Occupations/Solemnity
Additional song notes:: Based on a motif by Peretz

On album:: B-047(d)2 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD 2 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 2)
Track ID:: 33107
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: In der kleyne shulekhel iz arayngekumen a hintinken sheygets un ungeshteln…
First line (Yiddish):: אין דער קליינע שולעכעל איז אַרײַנגעקומען אַ הינטיקען שייעגעץ און אונגעשטעלן...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologue
Length:: 11:45

A Gevir Un A Kaptsn — אַ גבֿיר און אַ קבּצן

On album:: D-005(s) (Dzigan and Szumacher Di Beste Yorn — דזיגן ושומאכר די בעסטע יאָרן)
Track ID:: 206
Author:: Goldstein, S.
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Bernstein Dudl Concert Introduction

Genre:: Introduction/Speech
Subject:: Yiddish Music/Dodl Bernstein

On album:: B-089(a) (Dudl Bernstein Accompanied by Madeline Simon/ Century Village 2/1/00)
Track ID:: 31892
Vocal:: Bernstein, Dovid (Dudl) בערנשטיין, דוד (דאָדל)
Vocal:: Simon, Madeline
First line:: Dudl Bernstein, our guest performer this morning, has been part of Yiddish…
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 5:01

Abba Kovner - Comments (Video)

Genre:: Holocaust/Place/Video/Documentary
Subject:: Vilna Ghetto/Organizations/Resistance

On album:: V0041
Track ID:: 34098
Commentator:: Kovner, Abba — קאָװנער, אַבאַ
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word

Stone Soup (Video)

Author:: Brown, Marcia
Genre:: Folktale/French
Subject:: Food/Trickery/Soldiers/Villagers/Hoarding/Feast Celebration
Additional song notes:: Soldiers' cleverness trickedVillagersinto sharing food.

On album:: V0190 (His People (Video))
Track ID:: 35714
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

The Golden Peacock (Side 1)

Author:: Rosenfeld, Max
Genre:: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject:: Yiddish Literature/Translation
Origin:: Alb P-041(a) [Script]

On album:: P-041(a) (The Golden Peacock / Presented by the Sholom Aleichem Club)
Track ID:: 33633
Cast Member:: Katz, Bess
Cast Member:: Labovitz, Sherman
Cast Member:: Marks, Ruth
Cast Member:: Soffen, Joe
Cast Member:: Rosenfeld, Jack
Cast Member:: Soffen, Faye
Piano:: Farnesse, Marco
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Theater/Spoken Word

The Golden Peacock (Side 2)

Author:: Rosenfeld, Max
Genre:: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject:: Yiddish Literature/Translation
Origin:: Alb P-041(a) [Script]

On album:: P-041(a) (The Golden Peacock / Presented by the Sholom Aleichem Club)
Track ID:: 33634
Piano:: Farnesse, Marco
Cast Member:: Katz, Bess
Cast Member:: Labovitz, Sherman
Cast Member:: Marks, Ruth
Cast Member:: Rosenfeld, Jack
Cast Member:: Soffen, Faye
Cast Member:: Soffen, Joe
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Theater/Spoken Word

A Yidishe Mame in 10 Lectsias (Video) — אַ ייִדישע מאַמע אין 10 לעקסיעס (ווידיאָ

Genre:: Humor/Satire/Sterotypes
Subject:: Mothers/Food/Guilt

On album:: V0200 (A Yidishe Mame in Tsen Lectsias/ A Jewish Mother in Ten Lectures (Video) — אַ ייִדישע מאַמע אין 10 לעקסיעס (ווידיאָ)
Track ID:: 35758
Performer:: Yigil, Gidi — יגיל, גדי
Performer:: Atzmon, Anat — עצמון, ענת
Performer:: Vardeman, Monica — ורדימון, מוניקה
Performer:: Kashkar, Andre — קשקר, אנדרי
Performer:: Kidor, Amitai — קידר, אמיתי
Performer:: Stupnov, Irma — סטפנוב, אירמה
Performer:: Kubluski, Uri — קובלסקי, אורי
Performer:: Shafir, Nib — שפיר, ניב
Performer:: Engl, Duri — אנגל, דורי
Performer:: Ashri, Runit — אשרי, רונית
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 47:32

Der Alter Tate — דער אַלטער טאַטע

Genre:: Vaudeville/TheaterSketch/Song/Lament
Subject:: Aged Father/Daughter/Poverty/Rejection/Shelter
Additional song notes:: The Aged Father - Father lost all his money, Daughtwith whom he sought shelter told him to go to his other children.

On album:: A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)
Track ID:: 36104
Vocal:: Silverbush, Sam
Vocal:: Wachtel, M.
First line:: A git morgn dir, mayn tayer kind, mayn zise neshome, a git morgn dir tatenyu,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Vaudville/Sketch/Spoken Word
Length:: 3:10

Di Shlof Krankheyt — די שלאָף קראַנקײַט

Genre:: Skit/Humorous
Subject:: Sleep/Illness/Husband/Abandoned Wife/Old Maid/Sleepwalker
Additional song notes:: The Sleeping Sickness

On album:: A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)
Track ID:: 36107
Vocal:: Karp, Abe
Artist:: Karp, Abe
Vocal:: Karp, Gussie
First line:: Hooray, abe karp un bessie karp zenen do, a git morgn aykh, shprintse chasia,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Sketch/Spoken Word
Length:: 3:18

Der Yidisher Polisman — דער ייִדישער פּאָליסמאַן

Genre:: Theatre/Klezmer/Dialogue/Humorous/Song
Subject:: Policeman/Threatened Arrest
Additional song notes:: The Jewish Policeman - Song is "Amerike, Hooray For Uncle Sam

On album:: A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)
Track ID:: 36108
Vocal:: Karp, Abe
Vocal:: Karp, Gussie
First line:: Lebedik, kinderlekh, zey nor, ver iz do, dat's me, an officer, who iz you...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Sketch/Spoken Word/Song
Length:: 3:25

Shpiltsayg — שפּילצײַג

Also known as:: Toys
Author:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
Composer:: Kornecka, Ewa
Genre:: Literary Origin/Holocaust/Lament
Subject:: Toys/Dolls/Pony/Orphans/Children/
Origin:: Alb B-036(c)/Alb S-016(a)
Translation:: Alb B-036(c)/AlbT-015(a)/Penguin YID 692/Alb P-038€
Additional song notes:: Toys

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33425
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: Dayne shpiltsvayg, mayn kind, halt zey tayer, dayne shpiltsvayg, nokh klener...
First line (Yiddish):: דײַנע שפּילטסווײַג, מײַן קינד, האַלט זיי טײַער, דײַנע שפּילטסווײַג, נאָך קלענער...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:04

Azoy Shteyt Ungeshribn Oyf A Breyt… — אָזוי שטייט אונגעשריבן אויף אָ באייט פֿון אַ וואָגן

Also known as:: Inscribed On A Slat In A Railway Car
Author:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Holocaust
Subject:: Railway Car/Transport/Pearl Necklace/Dancer/Fate

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33427
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
English Adaption:: Kozodoy, Neal
First line:: Should you happen on a string of pearls threaded on a length of blood red silk,
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:10

Azoy Shteyt Ungeshribn Oyf A Breyt… — אָזוי שטייט אונגעשריבן אויף אָ באייט פֿון אַ וואָגן

Also known as:: Inscribed On A Slat In A Railway Car
Author:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Holocaust
Subject:: Railway Car/Transport/Pearl Necklace/Dancer/Fate

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33428
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: Ver es vet amol gefinen perl getsirelt oyf a blutike-roytn shnirele fun zayd,
First line (Yiddish):: ווער עס וועט אַמאָל געפֿינען פּערל געצירעלט אויף אַ בלוטיקע־רויטן שנירעלע פֿון זײַד,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:09

Ovnt (Binyumin) — אָווענט (ביניאָמינ)

Also known as:: Evening
Author:: Binyumin, H. — ביניאָמען, ה.
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Power/Word/Communications/Collapse/Information/Language
Additional song notes:: Evening

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33429
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
English Adaptation:: Harshav, Benjamin
English Adaptation:: Harshav, Barbara
First line:: Seven voices fell, the eighth is shaken out, red rays drip through cut-out...
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:25

Ovnt (Binyumin) — אָווענט (ביניאָמינ)

Also known as:: Evening
Author:: Binyumin, H. — ביניאָמען, ה.
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Power/Word/Communications/Collapse/Information/Language
Additional song notes:: Evening

On album:: B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)
Track ID:: 33430
Vocal:: Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב
First line:: Zibn shtimen faln, akhte vert tstreyselt, dripen royte shtraln durkh a volkn…
First line (Yiddish):: זיבן שטימען פֿאַלן, אַכטע ווערן צעטרייסעלט, דריפּן רויטע שטראַלן דורף אַ וואָלקן...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:31

From Shtetl to Swing / Alden Films (Video)

Genre:: Documentary/Show Business
Subject:: Immigration/Integration/Music/Acculturation/Music/Persona

On album:: V0147 (From Shtetl to Swing / Alden Films (Video))
Track ID:: 35728
Performer:: Brice, Fanny
Performer:: Calloway, Cab
Performer:: Cantor, Eddie
Performer:: Garland, Judy
Performer:: Jolson, Al
Performer:: Marx Brothers
Performer:: Picon, Molly — פּיקאָן, מאָלי
Performer:: Schwartz, Maurice
Performer:: Tucker, Sophie
Performer:: Berlin, Irving
Narrator:: Fierstein, Harvey
Language:: English
Style:: Narrative/Performances/Spoken Word

Ignorant American Jews Satirized (Video)

Genre:: Video/Theater/Humorous/Vaudeville/Novelty
Subject:: Mispronuciations/Ignorance/

On album:: V0017
Track ID:: 33973
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Humorous/Novelty/Spoken Word

Eyns Tsvey Dray Fir (Ansky Exsp) — איינס צוויי דרײַ פֿיר (אַנסקי עקספּ)

Genre:: Children/Rhyme/Folk/Counting
Subject:: Numbers/Doves/Luxury/Purchase
Origin:: Alb A-053(a)
Transliteration:: Alb A-053(a)
Translation:: Alb A-053(a)

On album:: A-053(a) (The Upward Flight/ The Musical World of S. An-sky/ Michael Alpert/ Stuart Brotman)
Track ID:: 33126
First line:: Eyns tsvey dray fir, bay dem melekh in der tir,
First line (Yiddish):: איינס צוויי דרײַ פֿיר, בײַ דעם מלח אין דער טיר
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Folk/Spoken Word
Length:: 1:07

Lokshn Ila Zakatilia

Also known as:: Ila Cooked Up Noodles
Genre:: Folk/Children/Rhyme/Macaronic
Subject:: Food/Cook/Noodles/Borsht/Potatoes
Origin:: Alb A-053(a) Alb A-053(a)
Transliteration:: Alb A-053(a)
Translation:: Alb A-053(a)
Additional song notes:: Ila Cooked Up Noodles

On album:: A-053(a) (The Upward Flight/ The Musical World of S. An-sky/ Michael Alpert/ Stuart Brotman)
Track ID:: 33127
Vocal:: Yiddish Children's Chorus, St Petersburg
First line:: Lokshn lla zakrila, borsht mit kartofles.
First line:: לאָקשן אילאַ זאַקאַטילאַ, באָרשט מיט קאַרטאָפֿלעס.
Language:: Yiddish/Russian
Style:: Folk/Spoken Word
Length:: 1:07

A Heylung Far Di Nerven — אַ הײלונג פֿאַר די נערװען

Also known as:: Cure De Nerfs

On album:: D-005(l) (Dzigan V'Shumacher — דז'יגן ושומכר)
Track ID:: 264
Author:: Shudzhig — שודזשיג
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Holidays Are Fun For You

Author:: Goldstein, Rose B.
Genre:: Religious/Children/Instructional
Subject:: Holidays/Everyday/Beginnings/Song/Play/Fun
Origin:: Alb G-081(a)

On album:: G-081(a) (Songs To Share /Based on the Book by Rose B. Goldstein)
Track ID:: 33611
Narrator:: Mayer, Heidy
Piano/Arranger:: Kosakoff, Reuben — קאָסאַקאָף, רואבֿן
Director:: Arkus, Albert R.
First line:: Holidays are fun for you. Every-day days are nice, too.
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Mayn Nomen Iz Benyoumen (Video) — מײַן נאָמען איז בנימין (ווידיאָ)

Author:: Kishon, Ephfraim — קישאן, אַ.
Genre:: Humor/Comedy/Satire
Subject:: Israeli/Bureaucracy/Mistaken Identity
Additional song notes:: My Name Is Banjamin

On album:: V0203 (Mayn Nomen Iz Benyouman/ My Name Is Benjamin (Video) — מײַן נאָמען איז בנימין (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 35780
Performer:: Bodo, Yakov — בודו, יעקבֿ
Performer:: Alperin, Yankl — אַלפּערין, יענקל
Performer:: Kashkar, Andre — קשקר, אנדרי
Performer:: Fride, Davida — פרידה, דודה
Performer:: Yacov, Dovid — יעקב, דוד
Performer:: Kubluski, Uri — קובלסקי, אורי
Performer:: Traistman, Yisroel — טרייסטמאן, ישראל
Performer:: Yarlova, Helena — ירלובה, הלנה
Performer:: Fisku, Irma — פיסקו, אירמה
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Israeli Humor/Spoken Word
Length:: 120:00

Pete Sokolow Commentary

Genre:: Klezmer/Instrumental/Video

On album:: V0046 (A Tickle in the Heart/ (Video) — אַ קיצל אין האַרצן (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 34044
Vocal:: Sokolow, Pete — סוקולוב, פּסח
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

A Lid Vegn Eliyahu Hanovi — אַ ליד װעגן אליהו הנביא

On album:: M-003(a) (Itzik Manger Read by the Author — איציק מאַנגער לײנט איציק מאַנגער)
Track ID:: 393
Author/Vocal:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
First line:: Der alter eliyahu hanovi geyt vi a betler farshtelt,
First line (Yiddish):: דער אַלטער אליהו הנביא גײט װי אַ בעטלער פֿאָרשטעלט,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: "Sonatn Far Mayn Bruder Nete"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Mani Leyb Poem

Genre:: Video/Literary Origin

On album:: V0094 (Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists (Video))
Track ID:: 33961
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Anarchy Defined in Yiddish Poetry

Genre:: Video/Literary Origin

On album:: V0094 (Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists (Video))
Track ID:: 33963
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Strega Nona (Video)

Author:: de Paola, Tomie
Genre:: Folktale/Children/Italy
Subject:: Witch/Magic Pot/Spaghetti/Food/Pasta/

On album:: V0190 (His People (Video))
Track ID:: 35712
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Joseph Had A Little Overcoat (Video)

Author:

Taback, Simms

Genre:

Children/Folk Song/

Subject:

Clothing/Overcoat/Vest/Shawl/Tie/Button/Story/Song

Additional song notes:

Story based on Yiddish folksong "Hob Ikh Mir A Mantl"

Related information in folder 1024:

Comments:: 1. Booklet by Phoebe Gelman titled "Something from Nothing" based upon "Joseph Had a Little Overcoat.Colorful Illustrations. Publish by Scholastic, Inc., 2008. Gift of Malcolm Jack Freedman.
Comments:: 1.5/2/2018Promotional Childrens" Book by Phobe Gillman entered in Ephemera on May 2, 2018

On album:: V0190 (His People (Video))
Track ID:: 35713
Narrator:: Reiner, Rob
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Susi Bren, Di Dinst Moyd — סוזי ברען די דינסט מויד

Author:: Zolotarefsky, Isadore
Genre:: Theater/
Subject:: Servant Girl/Citizen/US/Lady/Demands/Employer/Interview
Origin:: Alt M-047(c) [start of opening monologue]
Additional song notes:: Susi Bren, The Servant Girl from the play of the same name.

On album:: M-047(d) (Cantors Klezmorim and Crooners: 1905-1953 / Classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection B)
Track ID:: 35591
Vocal:: Thomashevsky, Bessie — טאָמאַשעװסקי, בעסי
First line:: Hello, do voynst mr fig, o...correct, mit a laydi, darf men hobn a ladyi...
First line:: העלאָ, דאָ וווּינסט מיסטער פֿיג? יאָ...קאָרעקט מיט אַ ליידי, דאַרף מען האָבן...
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Monolog/Sketch/Spoken Word
Length:: 3:38

Life & Music of David Nowakovsky (Video)

Genre:: Documentary/History
Subject:: David Nowakowsky/Music

On album:: V0050
Track ID:: 34125
Producer/Director:: Novack, David
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 19:00

A Porfolk Mit A Hintl — אַ פּאָרפֿאָלק מיט אַ הינטל

On album:: D-005(k) (S. Dzigans Lach Bombes — ש. דזיגאַנד לאַך באָמבעס)
Track ID:: 562
Author:: Nudelman, Moshe — נודעלמאַן, משה
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Sheftel, Sonia — שעפֿטעל, סוניה
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Eybik (Leyvik) — אײביק (לייוויק)

Author:: Leivick, Halper — לײװיק, האַלפּער
Composer:: Secunda, Sholom — סעקונדאַ, שלום
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Survival/Fire/Dangers/Persistance/Imperishable
Origin:: Betsky 37/ML PYS 199/Sh Sh305
Transliteration:: Betsky 37/ML PYS 199/Alb G-006(b)
Translation:: Alb G-006(b)/Sh Sh 304
Music:: ML PYS 199
Additional song notes:: Forever

On album:: K-136(a) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry/ Poems by Yiddish Poets Read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 35765
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Di velt nemt mikh arum mit shtekhike hent, un trogt mikh...
First line (Yiddish):: די װעלט נעמט מיך אַרום מיט שטעכיקע הענט, און טראָגט מיך...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Length:: 02:19

Gebirtig (Video) — געבירטיג (ווידיאָ)

Author:: Sobel, Yeshua — סובול, יהושה
Genre:: Choral/Theatre/Fictional History
Subject:: Gebirtig/Songs

On album:: V0219 (Dzigan un Shumakher Knakn Zikh Vider/ Bodo/ Dov Glikman (Video) — דז'גאַן און שומאַכער: קנאַקען זיך ווידער (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 36047
Spoken Word:: Bodo, Yakov — בודו, יעקבֿ
Spoken Word:: Yigil, Gidi — יגיל, גדי
Vocal:: Monica — מוניקה
Vocal:: Treystman, Israel — טרייסמאַן, ישׂראל
Vocal:: Yurluva, Helene — ירלובה, הלנה
Vocal:: Markovitch, Karol — מאַרקאָװיאש, קאָראָל
Vocal:: Anabela — אנאבלה
Vocal:: Sukulski, Joseph — סוקולבקי, יוסף
Vocal:: Piski, Irma — פּיסקי, אירמה
Vocal:: Sandler, Gro — סאַנדלער, גראָ
Vocal:: Kubluski, Uri — קובלסקי, אורי
Vocal:: Kashkar, Andre — קשקר, אנדרי
Producer:: Shali, Yitzkhak — שאולי, יצחק
Style:: Choral/Spoken Word/Humorous

Vu Iz Dos Gesele — װוּ איז דאָס געסעלע

Also known as:: Vi Iz Dos Gesele
Genre:: Folk/Love/Waltz/Lament
Subject:: Love/Dwelling/Memory/Street
Origin:: Alb H-007(a)/Jaffee Kam 13/Alb S-062(a)/Alb B-036(a)/ Oyfn Veg 121
Transliteration:: Alb S-062(a)/Alb B-036(a)/Alb V0121/ Oyfn Veg 121
Translation:: Alb S-062(a)/Alb B-036(a)/Alb V0121
Music:: Jaffe Kam 13/Estella 6/
Additional song notes:: Where Is The Little Street (Alleyway?)

On album:: L-019(d) (King of the Klezmers Vol 4 Marty Levitt Harriet Kane)
Track ID:: 36991
Artist:: Kame, Harriet & Marty Levitt Orch
First line:: Vu iz dos gesele, vu iz di shtub, vu iz dos yingele vemen..
First line (Yiddish):: װוּ איז דאָס געסעלע, װוּ איז די שטוב, װוּ איז דאָס ייִנגעלע װעמען..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin / Spoken Word

Mishe Lev — מישע ליוו

Author:: Lev, Mishe — לעוו, מישע
Genre:: Literary Origin/Memoirs/Holocaust
Subject:: Partisans/USSR/ResistancePrisoner/Escape/Nazis/Books

On album:: V0265 (Song of the Lodz Ghetto with the music of Brave Old World (Video))
Track ID:: 36992
Vocal:: Lev, Mishe — לעוו, מישע
Narrator:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
First line:: Etlekhe verter vegn zikh, geboyren gevorn in a shtetele in vinitse gegent,
First line (Yiddish):: עטלעכע ווערטער וועגן זיך, געבוירן געוואָרן אין אַ שטעטעלע אין וויניצע געגנט,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin / Spoken Word

Avrom Karpinovitch — אַבֿרהם קאַרפּינאָװיטש

Author:: Karpinovitsh, Avraham — קאַרפּינאָװיטש, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Place/Holocaust/Memoir
Subject:: Vilna/Theater/Memory

On album:: V0266 (Monologn Fun Yidishe Shraybers: Avrom Karpinovitch (Video) — מאָנאָלאָגן פֿון ייִדישע שרײַבערס :אַבֿרהם אַרפּינאָװיטש (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 36993
Vocal:: Karpinovitsh, Avraham — קאַרפּינאָװיטש, אַבֿרהם
Narrator:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
First line:: Mit der a klal kumt a yidisher shrayber fun a varshat, fun a yeshiva, fun a
First line (Yiddish):: מיט דער אַ כלל קומט אַ ייִדישער שרײַבער פֿון אַ וואַרשטאַט, פֿון אַ ישיבֿה....
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Literary Origin / Spoken Word

Ven Ikh Bin Rotshild (Aleichem) — װען איך בין ראָטשילד (עליכם)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous/Lament
Subject:: Poverty/Rich/Poor/Wishes/War/Peace
Translation:: Graf 153/Alb A-003(c)

On album:: M-047(d) (Cantors Klezmorim and Crooners: 1905-1953 / Classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection B)
Track ID:: 35598
Vocal:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
First line:: A monolog fun Sholom Aleichem: Ay, ven ikh zol zayn rotshild,
First line (Yiddish):: אַ מאָנאָלאָג פֿון שלום אליכם: אײַ, ווען איך זאָל זײַן ראָטשילד...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:07

Yidn Kh'ken Nisht Shlofn — ייִדן כ'קען נישט שלאָפֿן

Author:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Genre:: Theater/Monologue/Humor
Subject:: Sleep
Additional song notes:: Jews, I Can't Sleep

On album:: D-005(z)5 (S. Dzigan / Yidn Kh'ken Nisht Shlofn/Pariz - Tel Aviv/ Fishl Der Matraz/Undzere In Amerika — ש. דזשיגאַן)
Track ID:: 36183
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Monologue/Spoken Word

Undzere In Amerika — אונדזערע אין אַמעריקאַ

Author:: Nudelman, Moshe — נודעלמאַן, משה
Genre:: Theater/Skit/Humorous/
Subject:: America/Israeli Emigres/Yordim
Additional song notes:: Ours (Our People) In America

On album:: D-005(z)5 (S. Dzigan / Yidn Kh'ken Nisht Shlofn/Pariz - Tel Aviv/ Fishl Der Matraz/Undzere In Amerika — ש. דזשיגאַן)
Track ID:: 36184
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Spoken Word:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Skit/Spoken Word

Pariz - Tel Aviv — פּאַריז - תל אביב

Author:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Genre:: Theater/Monologue/Humorous/Place
Additional song notes:: Paris - Tel Aviv

On album:: D-005(z)5 (S. Dzigan / Yidn Kh'ken Nisht Shlofn/Pariz - Tel Aviv/ Fishl Der Matraz/Undzere In Amerika — ש. דזשיגאַן)
Track ID:: 36185
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Monologue/Spoken Word

Fishl Der Matros — פֿישל דער מאַטראָס

Author:: Nudelman, Moshe — נודעלמאַן, משה
Genre:: Theater/Monologue/Humorous
Subject:: Occupation/Sailor
Additional song notes:: Fishl The Sailor

On album:: D-005(Z)5 (S. Dzigan / Yidn Kh'ken Nisht Shlofn/Pariz - Tel Aviv/ Fishl Der Matraz/Undzere In Amerika — ש. דזשיגאַן)
Track ID:: 36186
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Monologue/Spoken Word

Romanze

Author:: Chezy, Muller V.
Composer:: Schubert, Franz
Genre:: Classical/Literary Origin
Subject:: Love
Song comment:: Opus 26

On album:: B-112(b) (Masters of Yiddish Prose/Tsvi Eisenman: The Spectacle and other stories/Read by Michael Ben-Avraham/ CD1)
Track ID:: 36941
Artist:: Ben Avraham, Michael — בן־אַבֿרהם, מיכאל
First line:: Er, an akhtsik yorike, geyt mit a shtekn, zi, an akhtsik yorike, geyt mit a…
First line (Yiddish):: ער, אַן אַכטציק־יאָריקע גייט מיט אַ שטעקן, זי, אַן אַכטציק־יאָריקע גייט מיט…
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Recitation
Length:: 06:61

Cohen On The Telephone

Genre:: Theater/Humorous

On album:: M-047(e) (Cantors Klezmorim and Crooners: 1905-1953 / Classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection C)
Track ID:: 35671
Vocal:: Hayman, Joe — הײַמאַן, יוסף
First line:: Hello, are you der, hello, vot number do you vant, vpt number do you have?
Language:: English
Style:: Humorous/Dialect/Spoken Word
Length:: 3:05

A Boydem — אַ בױדעם

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Attic

On album:: A-003(m)
Track ID:: 26
Vocal Reading:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Track comment:: From series of five tapes - tape 2, side A
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Yerushalayim (Introduction & Song) — ירושלים (אַrײַנפֿיר און ליד)

On album:: M-133(a) (Barbara Moskow / Disc 1)
Track ID:: 40055
Vocal:: Moskow, Barbara — מאָסקאָ, באַרבאַראַ
Piano:: Cohen, Rose Jarvis
First line:: Me'al pisgat har hatzofim, estachaveh lach apa'im, me'al pisgat har hatzofim,..
First line (English & Hebrew):: מעל פּסגת הר הצוֹפים אשתּחוה לך אפּים, מעל פּסגת הר הצוֹפים שלום..
Language:: English & Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word/Concert
Length:: 0:24

Yerushalayim (Introduction & Song) — ירושלים (אַrײַנפֿיר און ליד)

On album:: M-133(a) (Barbara Moskow / Disc 1)
Track ID:: 40056
Vocal:: Moskow, Barbara — מאָסקאָ, באַרבאַראַ
Piano:: Cohen, Rose Jarvis
First line:: Me'al pisgat har hatzofim, estachaveh lach apa'im, me'al pisgat har hatzofim,..
First line (English & Hebrew):: מעל פּסגת הר הצוֹפים אשתּחוה לך אפּים, מעל פּסגת הר הצוֹפים שלום..
Language:: English & Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word/Concert
Length:: 3:50

Groyse Oygn Sheyn (English)

On album:: L-029(a) (Abe Luski Evening Charlotte, North Carolina (1968))
Track ID:: 37935
Author:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
Artist:: Levitan, Gladys, English
First line:: Deep, shining eyes, deep as the depths of the sea,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

The Journey (Video)

Genre:: Biography/History
Subject:: Family/Assimilation/Immigration/Abe Luski/Accomplishments

On album:: V0294 (Abe Luski/ The Journey (Video))
Track ID:: 37938
First line:: My name is Abraham Luski, I was born in Havana, Cuba...
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 87:59

Kenig Lear Als Border — קעניג ליר אַלס באָרדער

Genre:: Humorous
Subject:: King Lear/Actor/Border/Poverty/Eviction/Hunger/Begger/Purim
Additional song notes:: King Lear As a Border

On album:: 072e (Silberbush, Samuel & Wachtel, Sadie/ Kenig Lear Als Border/ Kenig Lear)
Track ID:: 38307
Vocal:: Silverbush, Sam
Vocal:: Wachtel, Sadie
First line:: Tsu Mayne sonims kep, a gants geyendik tog halt er in eynkomen mentshn,...
First line (Yiddish):: צו מײַנע שׂוניםס קעפּ, אַ גאַנץ גייענדיק טאָג האַלט אין איין אײַנקומען מענטשן
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:00

Di Dray Malokhim Kumen Tsu Avram Ovinu (Video — די דריי מלאכים קומען צו אברהם אָבינו (ווידיאָ)

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/ Biblical
Subject:: Angels/Visitors/Sarah/Joy/Turks/Prophesy/Birth
Origin:: Manger 218
Additional song notes:: The Three Angels Come To Forefather Abraham

On album:: V0221 (Itzik Manger/ Khumash Lider (Video) — איציק מאַנגער \ חומש־לידער (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 36076
First line:: Avrom ovinu zitst oyf der shvel un shnitst zikh a teytl fun beyn,...
First line (Yiddish):: ,,אַוורהם אבֿינו זיצט אןיף דער שוועל און שניצט זיך אַ טייטל פֿון ביין,.."
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Sketch/Spoken Word/Theater

Avrom Ovinu..Yitzkhakn Tsu Der Akade (Video) — אברהם אָבינו .. יצחקן צו דער עקידה (ווידיאָ)

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Biblical
Subject:: Sacrifice/Isaac/Abraham/Elieazer/Knife/Lie/Yarid
Origin:: Manger 232
Additional song notes:: Forefather Abraham Travels With Isaac The Sacrifice (Fragment with an unidentified poem)

On album:: V0221 (Itzik Manger/ Khumash Lider (Video) — איציק מאַנגער \ חומש־לידער (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 36081
First line:: Di groe morgn demerung demert iber der erd, der alter getrayer elieazer...
First line (Yiddish):: די גראָע מאָרגן דעמערונג דעמערט איבער דער ערד, דער אַלטער געטרײַער עליעזר....
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Yakov Ovinu Zitst Alt Un Mid...(Video) — יעקב אבינו זיצט אַלט און מיד... (ווידיאָ)

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Biblical
Subject:: Children/Complaints/Aging/
Additional song notes:: Forefather Abraham Sits Old And Tired On The Grass At Dusk. Complains how his adult children are aggrevating him.

On album:: V0221 (Itzik Manger/ Khumash Lider (Video) — איציק מאַנגער \ חומש־לידער (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 36086
First line:: Yakov ovinu zitst alt un mid oyf der groz farnakht,
First line (Yiddish):: יעקבֿ אָבֿינו זיצט אַלט און מיד אויך דער גראָז פֿאַרנאַכט,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Nisrif (Video) — דער נשׂררף (ווידיאָ)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/
Subject:: Arson/Humor/Blackmail/Lament
Additional song notes:: "Burn Out" "The Arsonist" Monologue by arsonist torching his mechandise justifying his actions on the basis that "everybody does it"

On album:: V0174
Track ID:: 36090
Vocal:: Goldwaser, Rafael
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Commentary 4

On album:: B-126(a) (A Besere Velt/ Yiddish Community Chorus of Boston Workmen's Circle)
Track ID:: 37965
First line:: When I hear these Yiddish songs I don't hear my grandparents…
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:00

Berl Isaac

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous

On album:: A-003(r) (Howard Da Silva: An Evening With Sholom Aleichem)
Track ID:: 37750
Narrator:: Howard Da Silva
First line:: To really understand america you must hear about it from our own Berel Isaac.
Track comment:: Translation by Zollman Yachnes
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous/Story
Length:: 8:49

Food My Mother Fed Me

Author:: Herschel Bernardi
Author:: Les Pine
Additional song notes:: Written by Herschel Bernardi and Les Pine

On album:: A-003(r) (Howard Da Silva: An Evening With Sholom Aleichem)
Track ID:: 37751
Narrator:: Howard Da Silva
First line:: When you go to my mothers house for dinner you don’t eat for three days in advan
Track comment:: Translation by Zollman Yachnes
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous/Story
Length:: 4:16

Tevya The Dairyman

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם

On album:: A-003(r) (Howard Da Silva: An Evening With Sholom Aleichem)
Track ID:: 37752
Narrator:: Howard Da Silva
First line:: Man is weaker then a fly and stronger then Iron, where does that leave me?
Track comment:: Translation by Zollman Yachnes
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous/Story
Length:: 16:58

Ke'ilu Sof — כאילו סוף

Genre:: Israeli/Literary Origin

On album:: A-001(u) (Chava Alberstein/ Love Songs / Disk 1 and 2 — חוה אַלברשטיין\ סיפור אינטימי\ דיסק 1 און 2)
Track ID:: 37903
Vocal:: Alberstein, Chava — אַלבערשטײַן, חוה
First line:: Keilu kan sof sof nirga't nedidah hanakh roshkha hameuga eluy ha'layala lo ya'ik
First line (Hebrew):: כאילו כאן סוף סוף נרגעת נדידה הנח ראשך המיוגע אולי הלילה לא יעיק יותר מדי
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 4:26

On Holy Ground (Video)

Author:: Anjou, Erik Greenberg
Genre:: Documentry/Klezmer
Subject:: Klezmatics

On album:: V0222 (The Klezmatics / On Holy Ground, Festival Edition (Video))
Track ID:: 36070
Performer:: London, Frank
Performer:: Sklamberg, Lorin
Performers:: Klezmatics
Performer:: Alberstein, Chava — אַלבערשטײַן, חוה
Performer:: Bikel, Theodore
Producer:: Marash, Ralph
Producer/Director:: Anjou, Erik Greenberg
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Klezmer/Documentary/Spoken Word
Length:: 64:00

Khava Brengt Adomen Dos Epl (Video) — חוה ברענגט אָדמען דעם עפּל (ווידיאָ)

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Biblical
Subject:: Adam/Eve/Garden Of Eden/Apple/Passion/Death/Sin/Sex
Origin:: Manger 218
Translation:: Manger Wolf 7
Additional song notes:: Eve Brings The Apple To Adam

On album:: V0221 (Itzik Manger/ Khumash Lider (Video) — איציק מאַנגער \ חומש־לידער (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 36071
First line:: Odom harishun ligt in groz up shpayt tsum volkn aroyf, bet zikh der volkn...
First line (Yiddish):: אדם הראשון ליגט אין גראָז און שפּײַט צום וואָלקן אַרויף. בעט זיך דער ןןאָלקן...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Theater

Avram Ovinu Musert Lutn (Video) — אבֿרהם אָבינו מודרט לוטן (ווידיאָ)

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Medresh/Biblical/Literary Origin/Humorous
Subject:: Abraham/Lot/Drunkeness/Reproof/Daughters/Status/Scolding
Origin:: Manger 214
Translation:: Manger Wolf 8/HG TYP 274
Additional song notes:: Forefather Abraham Reproves Lot About His Alcoholism

On album:: V0221 (Itzik Manger/ Khumash Lider (Video) — איציק מאַנגער \ חומש־לידער (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 36073
First line:: "Lut, ikh muz dir zogn, s'iz -- fe! Du shikerest a yede nakht,..."
First line (Yiddish):: ,,לוט, איך מוז דיר זאָגן, ס,איז-- פֿע! דו שיכּורסט אַ יעדע נאַכט, ערשט נעכטן.."
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Sketch/Theater

Ven Ikh Bin Rotshild (Aleichem) — װען איך בין ראָטשילד (עליכם)

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous/Lament
Subject:: Poverty/Rich/Poor/Wishes/War/Peace
Translation:: Graf 153/Alb A-003(c)

On album:: E-004(a) (Readings In Yiddish by Ya'akov Einstein — יעקב אײנשטײן לײנט שאַפֿונגען אין ייִדיש)
Track ID:: 35875
Vocal:: Eynshteyn, Yakov — אײנשטײן, יעקבֿ
First line:: Oy, ven ikh bin rotshild, hot zikh tselozt der kasrilivker melamud eyn mol…
First line (Yiddish):: אוי, ווען איך בין ראָטשילד, האָט צולאָזט דער כּתריאלעװקער מלמד איין מאָל אין...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 8:02

The Thomashefskys (Video)

Genre:

Documentary/History/Yiddish Theater

Subject:

Bessie and Boris Thomashefsky/Michael Tilson Thomas

Related information in folder 1072:

Comments:: 1. Booklet published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia publicizing concert titled "The Tomashefskys" written and conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Tuesday Feb 15, 2011 at the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, with a special tribute to Constance and Joe Smukler.

On album:: V0217 (The Thomashefskys Nightline (Video))
Track ID:: 36029
Spoken Word:: Bodo, Yakov — בודו, יעקבֿ
Spoken Word:: Yigil, Gidi — יגיל, גדי
Vocal:: Anabela — אנאבלה
Vocal:: Monica — מוניקה
Vocal:: Treystman, Israel — טרייסמאַן, ישׂראל
Vocal:: Yurluva, Helene — ירלובה, הלנה
Vocal:: Markovitch, Karol — מאַרקאָװיאש, קאָראָל
Vocal:: Sukulski, Joseph — סוקולבקי, יוסף
Vocal:: Piski, Irma — פּיסקי, אירמה
Vocal:: Sandler, Gro — סאַנדלער, גראָ
Vocal:: Kubluski, Uri — קובלסקי, אורי
Vocal:: Kashkar, Andre — קשקר, אנדרי
Language:: English
Style:: Documentry/Spoken Word

Ma Ze Haya — מה זה היה

Genre:: Literary Origin
Additional song notes:: What Was It?

On album:: A-001(u) (Chava Alberstein/ Love Songs / Disk 1 and 2 — חוה אַלברשטיין\ סיפור אינטימי\ דיסק 1 און 2)
Track ID:: 37896
Vocal:: Alberstein, Chava — אַלבערשטײַן, חוה
First line:: Hayom mitkatser hatsel mit'arekh anakhu holkhim vehashvil mitmashekh od mat
First line (Hebrew):: היום מתקצר הצל מתארך אנחנך אנחנו הולנים והשביל מתמשך עוד מעט נגי
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 2:36

Memories of Yiddish Theatre--Maurice Schwartz

Genre:: Spoken word
Subject:: Tevye Der Milkhiker, Fiddler on the Roof, writers presented

On album:: K-010(h) (Miriam Kressyn & Seymour Rechzeit From Ellis Island...)
Track ID:: 36832
Narration:: Kressyn, Miriam — קרעסן, מיריאַם
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

A Little Off the Top, Intro

Author:: Altman, Sean
Author:: Tannenbaum, Rob
Composer:: Altman, Sean
Composer:: Tannenbaum, Rob
Genre:: Novelty/Raunchy/Ribald/Humorous/Vulgar
Subject:: Circumcision/Penis/Hands

On album:: U-008(a) (What I Like About Jew/ Unorthodox/ Songs by Sean Altman and Rob Tannenbaum)
Track ID:: 36294
Vocal:: Tannenbaum, Rob
Vocal:: Altman, Sean
First line:: Listen you really don't need to worry, I've performed thousands of circumcisions
Language:: English
Style:: Novelty/Spoken Word
Length:: 2:42

They Tried To Kill Us, Intro

Author:: Altman, Sean
Author:: Tannenbaum, Rob
Composer:: Altman, Sean
Composer:: Tannenbaum, Rob
Genre:: Parody/Humor
Subject:: Hebrew School/Teacher

On album:: U-008(a) (What I Like About Jew/ Unorthodox/ Songs by Sean Altman and Rob Tannenbaum)
Track ID:: 36291
Vocal:: Shelly, Gabriella
First line:: Class, settle down, Rob and Shawn are going to deliver their report on Passover.
Language:: English
Style:: Pop/Novelty/Spoken Word
Length:: 0:19

A Khasene In Birobidzan — אַ חתונה אין ביראָבידזשאַן

Author:: Fefer, Itsik — פֿעפֿער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Place/USSR
Subject:: Wedding/Birobidzhan/Romanticized
Origin:: Alb G-033(c)
Translation:: Alb F-033(a)
Additional song notes:: A Wedding Iin Birobidzan

On album:: 063f (Feffer, Lt. Col. Itzik/ Wedding in Biro Bijan (Parts 1 & 2))
Track ID:: 36711
Vocal:: Fefer, Lt. Col Itzik — פֿעפֿער, איציק
First line:: Vos hot zikh tsushpilt azoy, s'roysht birobidjan,
First line (Yiddish):: װאַס האַט זיך צושפּילט אַזױ, ס'רױשט ביראָבידזשאַן, דאָס איז אױף אַ..
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: 78 RPM Keystone Recording, Inc., NYC, K 537
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

A Khasene In Birobidzan — אַ חתונה אין ביראָבידזשאַן

Author:: Fefer, Itsik — פֿעפֿער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Place/USSR
Subject:: Wedding/Birobidzhan/Romanticized
Origin:: Alb G-033(c)
Translation:: Alb F-033(a)
Additional song notes:: A Wedding Iin Birobidzan

On album:: 063g (Feffer, Lt. Col. Itzik/I am a Jew (Parts 1 & 2))
Track ID:: 36712
Vocal:: Fefer, Lt. Col Itzik — פֿעפֿער, איציק
First line:: Vos hot zikh tsushpilt azoy, s'roysht birobidjan,
First line (Yiddish):: װאַס האַט זיך צושפּילט אַזױ, ס'רױשט ביראָבידזשאַן, דאָס איז אױף אַ..
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: 78 RPM Keystone Recording, Inc., NYC, K 537
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Ikh Bin A Yid — איך בין אַ ייִד

Author:

Fefer, Lt. Col Itzik — פֿעפֿער, איציק

Composer:

Gorovets, Emil (Rakhmil) Iakovlevich — גאָראָװעץ, עמיל

Genre:

Literary Origin/USSR

Subject:

Pride/Ancestry/Revenge/Identy/Resistance

Origin:

Alb G-018(c)

Transliteration:

Ephemera 1269/Ephemera 1458 2012

Translation:

Alb F-033(a)/Alb G-018(c)/Ephemera 1269/Ephemera 1458 2012

Additional song notes:

I Am A Jew Music credited to Beregovski in Ephemera 1269 Org, Translit & Translt on Alb B-211(a) Ephemera 1458 See 2012 program for translat and trqqnslit. Alb V0290-- What's Not To Like -- 2012

Related information in folder 1138:

Comments:: 1. Yiddish Texr, Shpigl 694 2. English Adapation by Thomas Bird, HG TYP 13

On album:: 063(g)
Track ID:: 36713
English Adaption:: Klein, Tania Brook
Vocal:: Fefer, Lt. Col Itzik — פֿעפֿער, איציק
First line:: Der vayn fun doyresidkn doyer hot mikh geshtarkt in…
First line (Yiddish):: דער װײַן פֿון דורותדיקן דױער האַט מיך גישטאַרקט אין װאַנדערװעג,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: 78 RPM Keystone Recording, Inc., NYC K 536
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Commentary 1

On album:: B-126(a) (A Besere Velt/ Yiddish Community Chorus of Boston Workmen's Circle)
Track ID:: 37954
Solist:: Gerut, Rosalie
Vocal:: Yiddish Community Chorus of Boston, WC
First line:: When I hear music, I hear my parents' voices in our Bronx kitchen…
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Commentary 3

On album:: B-126(a) (A Besere Velt/ Yiddish Community Chorus of Boston Workmen's Circle)
Track ID:: 37961
First line:: Yiddish was the language of my parent' world in Europe….
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0.43

Third Class

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם

On album:: A-003(r) (Howard Da Silva: An Evening With Sholom Aleichem)
Track ID:: 37753
Narrator:: Howard Da Silva
First line:: I was traveling on an express train, and there was no third class so I had to ri
Track comment:: Translation by Zollman Yachnes
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous/Story
Length:: 5:51

Mister ya'akov in zichron-ya'akev — מיסטר יעקב אין זכרון-יעקב

Genre:: Political Satire

On album:: Y-019(d) (Yiddish Humor Vol 6 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 6)
Track ID:: 37848
Artist:: Witler, Ben Tsion — װיטלער, בּן ציון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

zeit mich nist mekaneh — זייט מיך נישט מקנא

Genre:: Political Satire
Additional song notes:: "don't envy me"

On album:: Y-019(d) (Yiddish Humor Vol 6 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 6)
Track ID:: 37849
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Leb un Lach (Live and Laugh) — לעב און לאַך

Genre:: Political Satire

On album:: Y-019(d) (Yiddish Humor Vol 6 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 6)
Track ID:: 37850
Artist:: Witler, Ben Tsion — װיטלער, בּן ציון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Around The Band (Video)

Genre:: Insstrumental/Klezmer/Fusion/Gypsy/Cabaret/Documentary
Subject:: Les Yeux Noirs
Additional song notes:: Running commentary with music explaining the aims and music of the group Les Yeux Noirs

On album:: V0259 (Around the Band (Video) / From CD Y-055(a) Les Yeux Noirs)
Track ID:: 36865
Violin:: Stabiak, Eric
Violin:: Stabiak, Oliver
Guitar:: Anastasio, Frank
Percussion:: Tafial, Aidje
Accordion:: Peirani, Vincent
Bass:: Reveyrand, Kevin
First line:: Before we knew we were going to play gypsy, we always wanted to travel,
Language:: French
Style:: Klezmer/Fusion/Gypsy/Cabaret/Spoken Word
Length:: 12.33

Mending The Torn Curtain (Video)

Author:: Gonshor, Ben
Author:: Levy, Ralph
Genre:: Documentary
Subject:: Yiddish Theater/International/Performers/Sadie Brofman

On album:: V0261 (Mending the Torn Curtain/The Story of the First International Yiddish Festival (Video)/Returned by Katyia)
Track ID:: 36866
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Documentary
Length:: 71:00

Kaddish (Video) — קגיש (ווידיאָ)

Author:: Friedsel, Louis — פֿרידזעל, לואיס
Composer:: Friedsel, Louis — פֿרידזעל, לואיס
Genre:: Theater/Drama
Additional song notes:: Listed on the Liner Notes as item 9, but not on the video disc.

On album:: V0258 (Michael Tilson Thomas/ The Thomashefskys/ Music and Memories of the Yiddish Theater (Video))
Track ID:: 36875
Vocal:: Hensley, Shuler
Conductor:: Tilson Thomas, Michael
Artist:: New World Symphony
First line:: Mayn fater, mayn fater, oy, oy, oy, the audience ate it up, at the curtain…
Language:: English
Style:: Dramatic/Spoken Word

A Big Red Tomato

Author:: Cone, Molly
Genre:: Instruction/Moral
Subject:: Commandments/Parents
Song comment:: From the book "Who Knows Ten"

On album:: S-052(b) (A Storyteller's Journey II as told by Peninnah Schram)
Track ID:: 15
Vocal:: Schram, Peninnah
Track comment:: 5th Commandment- Honor Parents From book "Who Knows Ten
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Zayt Gegrist — זײַט געגריסט

Author:: Gosberg, Y. — גאָסבערג, י.
Genre:: Literary Origin/Recitation/Field Recording
Subject:: Welcoming/Zionist/Jerusalem/Haifa/Tel Aviv/
Additional song notes:: Be Welcomed

On album:: D-035(a) (Davidson Field Recording)
Track ID:: 36626
Vocal:: Kutner, Ruth — קוטנער, רוט
First line:: Undzer gest fun Yisroel, di shevster un shvuger fun undzer fraynt davidson vel..
First line (Yiddish):: אונדזער געסט פֿון ישראל וועל איך פֿאָרליינען ,,זײַט געגרעסט" פֿון י. גאָסבערג
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Recitation
Length:: 1:50

Ikh Bin A Yid — איך בין אַ ייִד

Author:

Fefer, Lt. Col Itzik — פֿעפֿער, איציק

Composer:

Gorovets, Emil (Rakhmil) Iakovlevich — גאָראָװעץ, עמיל

Genre:

Literary Origin/USSR

Subject:

Pride/Ancestry/Revenge/Identy/Resistance

Origin:

Alb G-018(c)

Transliteration:

Ephemera 1269/Ephemera 1458 2012

Translation:

Alb F-033(a)/Alb G-018(c)/Ephemera 1269/Ephemera 1458 2012

Additional song notes:

I Am A Jew Music credited to Beregovski in Ephemera 1269 Org, Translit & Translt on Alb B-211(a) Ephemera 1458 See 2012 program for translat and trqqnslit. Alb V0290-- What's Not To Like -- 2012

Related information in folder 1138:

Comments:: 1. Yiddish Texr, Shpigl 694 2. English Adapation by Thomas Bird, HG TYP 13

On album:: 063f (Feffer, Lt. Col. Itzik/ Wedding in Biro Bijan (Parts 1 & 2))
Track ID:: 36710
Vocal:: Fefer, Lt. Col Itzik — פֿעפֿער, איציק
English Adaption:: Klein, Tania Brook
First line:: Der vayn fun doyresidkn doyer hot mikh geshtarked in...
First line (Yiddish):: דער װײַן פֿון דורותדיקן דױער האַט מיך גישטאַרקט אין װאַנדערװעג,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: 78 RPM Keystone Recording, Inc., NYC K 536
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

A Call From Greenwich Village

Author:: Booker, Bob
Composer:: Feinerman, Georgie
Genre:: Theater/Humorous
Subject:: Mother/Daughter/Mistaken Identity

On album:: W-012(a) (When You're In Love The Whole World Is Jewish)
Track ID:: 68
Vocal:: Walker, Betty
Artist:: You Don't Have To Be Jewish Play..
Vocal:: Harper, Valerie
First line:: Hello. Hello mama. Hello sweetheart, My Shirley doesn't…
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: The minute I hang up the phone, I'm goin' to kill myself!
Language:: English
Style:: Skit/Telephone Conversation/Spoken Word

Hamohal, Hashochat, Nahag Chabarat Kadishah — המוהל, השוחט, נהג חברת קדישא

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(d) (Uri Wazir and Shaike Ophir, Funny Collection: When I shoot, I lie down — אורי זיר ושייקה אופיר, האוסף המצחיק: כשיורים אני נשכבת)
Track ID:: 40969
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 14:00

Simoni Kriah — סימני קריאה

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(d) (Uri Wazir and Shaike Ophir, Funny Collection: When I shoot, I lie down — אורי זיר ושייקה אופיר, האוסף המצחיק: כשיורים אני נשכבת)
Track ID:: 40970
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 4:35

Maharizat Badichot Emmiot — מחרוזת בדיחות עממיות

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(d) (Uri Wazir and Shaike Ophir, Funny Collection: When I shoot, I lie down — אורי זיר ושייקה אופיר, האוסף המצחיק: כשיורים אני נשכבת)
Track ID:: 40971
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 6:54

Der Nakht Vekhter — דער נאַכט װעכטער

Additional song notes:: The Night Watchman

On album:: Y-019(c) (Yiddish Humor Vol 5 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 5)
Track ID:: 37841
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Sholem Aleichem Dir, Amerike — שלום עליכם דיר אַמעריקע

Author:: Birnbaum, Martin — ביררנבוים, מאַרטין
Composer:: Rauch, Maurice — ראַוך, משה
Genre:: Theater/Literary Origin
Subject:: Child/ Adventures/Immigration
Transliteration:: Ale SADE
Music:: Ale SADE
Additional song notes:: Based on Sholem Aleichem's Motl Peyse's Dem Khazn Franklin Catlg # M1501.r28 S5 1956

On album:: P-004(a) (Sholem Aleichem Dir, Amerike featuring Molly Picon as Motel)
Track ID:: 36690
Conductor:: Rauch, Maurice — ראַוך, משה
Vocal:: Bushkin, Beatrice
Vocal:: Fried, Howard
Vocal:: Wolff, Cantor William
Vocal:: Picon, Molly — פּיקאָן, מאָלי
Vocal:: Jewish Peoples Chorus of N. Y.
Style:: Spoken Word/Choral/Classical/Theater

Kasrilovka

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humor
Subject:: Stories/Shtetle
Additional song notes:: A "Kasrilik" in Paris

On album:: A-003(r) (Howard Da Silva: An Evening With Sholom Aleichem)
Track ID:: 37748
Narrator:: Howard Da Silva
First line:: Stuck away in a corner of the world, completely isolated form the surrounding ,
Track comment:: Translation by Zollman Yachnes
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous/Story
Length:: 3:37

The Fiddle

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Composer:: Serge Hovey
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous
Subject:: Fiddle/Family Inheretance/Engagement/Violin

On album:: A-003(r) (Howard Da Silva: An Evening With Sholom Aleichem)
Track ID:: 37749
Narrator:: Howard Da Silva
First line:: Whenever there as a wedding, I was the First to greet the musicians.
Track comment:: Translation by Zollman Yachnes
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous/Story
Length:: 9:31

Belle Barth For Adults Only (Part 1)

Genre:: Theatre/Stand Up Comedy/Vulgarity/Shund
Subject:: Sex/Quips/Parody/Double Entendre

On album:: B-155(a) (Belle Barth/For Adults Only)
Track ID:: 39575
Vocal:: Barth, Belle
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Stand Up Comedy/Spoken Word

Belle Barth For Adults Only (Part 2)

Genre:: Theatre/Stand Up Comedy/Vulgarity/Shund
Subject:: Sex/Quips/Parody/Double Entendre

On album:: B-155(a) (Belle Barth/For Adults Only)
Track ID:: 39576
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Stand Up Comedy/Spoken Word

On the Mountaintop (Video) — אויפֿן שפּיץ באַרג (ווידיאָ)

Genre:: Promotional/Historical/Documentary
Subject:: Wildacres/Yiddish Institute/Activities/History

On album:: V0296 (On The Mountaintop With Yiddish (Video) — אויפֿן שפּיץ באַרג מיט ייִדיש (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 38597
Artist:: VIVA KLEZMER
Clarinet:: Kavadlo, Gene
Violin:: Kavadlo, Avi
Producer:: Sandler, Boris — סאַנדלער, באָריס
Vocal:: Reissa, Eleanor
Piano:: Nitsch, Dr Paul
Editor:: Koyfman, Nukhim
First line:: Shoyn, keyn eyn hora, finif un draysik yor nokh anon forn zikh aher,...
First line:: שוין, קיין עין־הרע, פֿינף און דרײַסיק יאָר נאָך אַנאַן, פֿאָרן זיך אַהער,...
Language:: English/Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Protsesie — פּראָצעסיע

Author:

Hofshteyn, Dovid — האָפֿשטײַן, דוד

Genre:

Procession/Rows/Humanity/Orderly/Pride/Steps

Additional song notes:

Procession

Related information in folder 1135:

Comments:: 1 Yiddish Text, Shpigl 239 2.English Adaptation by Allen Mandelbaum, HG TYP 175

On album:: K-136(b) (On The Keys of Yiddish Poetry 2/ Poems by Yiddish Poets murder during Stalinist purges read by Evgeny Kissin — אויף די קלאַווישן פֿון ייִדישער פּאָעזיע\ לידער..ייִדישע דיכטער 2..יעווגעני קיסין)
Track ID:: 36721
Vocal:: Kissin, Evgeny — קיסין, יעווגעני
First line:: Mir geyen in dayne forendike reyen, shapendike menshhayt, mit shtolse un...
First line (Yiddish):: מיר גייען אין דײַנע פֿאָרענדיקע רייען שפּאַנענדיקע מענשהײַט, מיט שטאָלצער און...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 1:06

You'll Be A Shepherd (Birshteyn)

Author:: Birshteyn, Yosl — בןרשטיין, יאָסל
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken
Subject:: Israel/Kibbutz/Sheep Shepherd/Occupation
Additional song notes:: Anecdote from DVD - Monologn fun Yosl Bernshteyn V0247

On album:: V0247 (Monologn Fun Yidishe Shraybers: Yosl Birnshteyn (Video) — מאָנאָלאָג פֿון ייִדישע שרײַבערס: יאָסל בירנשטיין (ווידיאָ))
Track ID:: 36747
Vocal:: Birshteyn, Yosl — בןרשטיין, יאָסל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

A Papir Vil Bageyn Zelbstmord — אַ פּאַפּיר װיל באַגײן זעלבסטמאָרד

Author:: Lutski, Avrom — לוצקי, אַבֿרהם
Composer:: Weiner, Lazar — װײַנער, לאַזאַר
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Paper/Suicide/Fright/
Origin:: Alb W-005(a)
Translation:: Alb W-005(a)/Ephemera 628

On album:: B-047(c)1 (Joseph Buloff On Stage Cassette 1 — יוסף בולאָף אױף דער בינע קאַסעטע 1)
Track ID:: 514
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Fri fartog oyf der puster gas shart zikh a shtikele papir,
First line (Yiddish):: פֿרי פֿאַרטאָג אױף דער פּוסטער גאַס שאַרט זיך אַ שטיקעלע פּאַפּיר,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Recorded live in Israel March 14, 1967
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

A Briven-Treiger — א בריווען-טרעגר

Genre:: Political Satire

On album:: Y-019(d) (Yiddish Humor Vol 6 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 6)
Track ID:: 37851
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

4 Wochen un 4 yuren noch der chassene — 4 וואכן און 4 יארן נאך דער חסנה

Genre:: Political Satire

On album:: Y-019(d) (Yiddish Humor Vol 6 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 6)
Track ID:: 37852
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Achzik her und zibezik zie — אכציק ער און זיצעציק זי

Genre:: Political Satire

On album:: Y-019(d) (Yiddish Humor Vol 6 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 6)
Track ID:: 37853
Artist:: Witler, Ben Tsion — װיטלער, בּן ציון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Goldenyu — גאָלדעניו

On album:: Y-019(d) (Yiddish Humor Vol 6 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 6)
Track ID:: 37854
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Der Bloy-Veiser telephone — דער בלוי וויסער טעלעפאן

Genre:: Political Satire
Subject:: Golda Mier/Kneset
Additional song notes:: The blue and white telephone

On album:: Y-019(d) (Yiddish Humor Vol 6 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 6)
Track ID:: 37855
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Artist:: Perlman, Max — פּערלמאַן, מאַקס
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Yiddish Humor — ייִדישער הומור

Genre:: Political Satire

On album:: Y-019(f) (Yiddish Humor Vol 8 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 8)
Track ID:: 37858
Artist:: Gerro, Henry — גערראָ, הענרי
Artist:: Londner, Rosita — לאָנדנער, ראָזיטאַ
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

A Yiddishe Protzes in Russland — א יידישער פראוצעס אין רוסלאנד

Genre:: Political Satire

On album:: Y-019(f) (Yiddish Humor Vol 8 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 8)
Track ID:: 37859
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

In Schwitz Bad — און שוויץ באד

Genre:: Political Satire

On album:: Y-019(f) (Yiddish Humor Vol 8 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 8)
Track ID:: 37860
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Artist:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Artist:: Shumacher, Yisroel & Shimon Dzigan — שומאַכער, ישׂראל און שמעון דזיגאַן
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Mama Yokero — מאמא יקרו

Genre:: Political Satire

On album:: Y-019(f) (Yiddish Humor Vol 8 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 8)
Track ID:: 37861
Artist:: The 4 Burstein — משפחת בורשטיין
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Israel Arabishe Football Match — ישראל אראבישער פֿוטבאל מעטש

Genre:: Political Satire

On album:: Y-019(f) (Yiddish Humor Vol 8 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 8)
Track ID:: 37862
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Yidden Furn Handlen — יידען פֿאָרן האַנדלען

Genre:: Political Satire

On album:: Y-019(f) (Yiddish Humor Vol 8 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 8)
Track ID:: 37863
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Artist:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Artist:: Shumacher, Yisroel & Shimon Dzigan — שומאַכער, ישׂראל און שמעון דזיגאַן
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Ich Vill Nisht Schwaigen — איך וועל נישט שווייגן

Genre:: Political Satire

On album:: Y-019(f) (Yiddish Humor Vol 8 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 8)
Track ID:: 37864
Artist:: Bodo, Yakov — בודו, יעקבֿ
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Der Hikevate Chussen-Ichvil — דער היקעוואטער חתן-אין וויל

Genre:: Political Satire

On album:: Y-019(f) (Yiddish Humor Vol 8 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 8)
Track ID:: 37865
Artist:: Goldshteyn, Pinie — גאָלדשטײן, פּיניע
Artist:: Rappel, Anna — ראַפּעל, אַנאַ
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Komendiant — קאמעדיאנטן

Genre:: Political Satire

On album:: Y-019(f) (Yiddish Humor Vol 8 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 8)
Track ID:: 37866
Artist:: The 4 Burstein — משפחת בורשטיין
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Motl, the Cantors son — מאָטל פּייסי דעם חזנס

Genre:: Spoken word/Story
Subject:: Coming to America/Entrpanure/
Translation:: Van Pelt Call: E184.J5 R213 1953

On album:: N-042(b) (National Yiddish Book Center/ Motl, the Cantor's Son read by Isaiah Sheffer)
Track ID:: 37867
Music:: Strauss, Deborah
Music:: Warschauer, Jeff
Aurator:: Sheffer, Isaiah
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 150:00

Maharizat Badichot Emmiot — מחרוזת בדיחות עממיות

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40947
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 6:54

Propor Kortzavragar — פרופסור קורצברגר

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40948
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 3:10

Hatair Hamariki — התייר האמריקאי

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40949
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 4:03

Mah Hashaah — מה השעה

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40950
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 3:38

Hazmanah Kasnatar Kafol — הזמנה לסנטר כפול

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40951
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 1:17

Makvi Hasah — מכבי האש

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40952
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 8:55

Hamitzil — המציל

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

Track ID:: 40954
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 5:48

Haztlam — הצלם

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

Track ID:: 40955
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 7:16

Biksing — בוקסינג ג'ו

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

Track ID:: 40956
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 3:54

Hamkam — המכס

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

Track ID:: 40957
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 6:57

Et Magzimah — את מגזימה

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

Track ID:: 40958
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 2:36

Hakolav — הכלב

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

Track ID:: 40959
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 5:47

Shti Chatolot — שתי חתולות

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

Track ID:: 40960
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 2:46

Eish Machalkat Hanikion — איש מחלקת הניקיון

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

Track ID:: 40961
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 6:26

Ach, Ahizah Yom Haoldat — אח, איזה יום הולדת

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

Track ID:: 40962
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 3:54

Kifah Adomah — כיפה אדומה

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

Track ID:: 40963
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 9:09

Ech, Aizah Lilah (Patichah) — אח, איזה לילה (פתיחה)

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

Track ID:: 40964
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 10:46

Ama V'doni — אמא ודני

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

Track ID:: 40965
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 4:10

Takrit Gavol — תקרית גבול

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(d) (Uri Wazir and Shaike Ophir, Funny Collection: When I shoot, I lie down — אורי זיר ושייקה אופיר, האוסף המצחיק: כשיורים אני נשכבת)
Track ID:: 40966
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 14:13

Chalash Haofi — חלש האופי

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(d) (Uri Wazir and Shaike Ophir, Funny Collection: When I shoot, I lie down — אורי זיר ושייקה אופיר, האוסף המצחיק: כשיורים אני נשכבת)
Track ID:: 40967
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 4:55

Hatashar — התעשר

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(d) (Uri Wazir and Shaike Ophir, Funny Collection: When I shoot, I lie down — אורי זיר ושייקה אופיר, האוסף המצחיק: כשיורים אני נשכבת)
Track ID:: 40968
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 5:42

Intro To Sophia's Song

Genre:: Spoken Word?Lament
Additional song notes:: Commentary by Miriam MARGULIES

On album:: Z-014(k) (The Devil's Brides/ Klezmer & Yiddish Songs/ Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi)
Track ID:: 42133
Spoken Word:: Margolies, Meriam
First line:: In the radio drama "The Witches of Lublin, Sophia is a teen age girl in love,
Language:: Englidh
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 0:56

Mah Hashaah — מה השעה

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(d) (Uri Wazir and Shaike Ophir, Funny Collection: When I shoot, I lie down — אורי זיר ושייקה אופיר, האוסף המצחיק: כשיורים אני נשכבת)
Track ID:: 40974
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 3:38

Hazmanah Kasnatar Kafol — הזמנה לסנטר כפול

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(d) (Uri Wazir and Shaike Ophir, Funny Collection: When I shoot, I lie down — אורי זיר ושייקה אופיר, האוסף המצחיק: כשיורים אני נשכבת)
Track ID:: 40975
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 1:17

Makvi Hasah — מכבי האש

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(d) (Uri Wazir and Shaike Ophir, Funny Collection: When I shoot, I lie down — אורי זיר ושייקה אופיר, האוסף המצחיק: כשיורים אני נשכבת)
Track ID:: 40976
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 8:55

A Klal Tuer — אַ כּלל טוער

On album:: D-005(r) (S. Dzigan — ש. דזשיגאַן)
Track ID:: 365
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness

Author:: Dorman, Joseph
Genre:: Film/Biography/Historical
Subject:: Sholem Aleichem

On album:: V0339 (Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in Darkness (Video))
Track ID:: 41618
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Narration
Length:: 153:50

Elo Tziporim — אילו ציפורים

Genre:: Army/Military
Additional song notes:: If Birds

On album:: A-080(a) (Army Band — להקת הננח"ל)
Track ID:: 37356
First line:: elo tziporim, asher afot mey al hayad, elo tziporim
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Besimla Adumah — בשמלה אדומה

Genre:: Military
Additional song notes:: Red Dress

On album:: A-080(a) (Army Band — להקת הננח"ל)
Track ID:: 37357
First line:: Bemsimla Adomah oushtate samot
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Betchielah Bali Melim — בתחילה בלי מילים

Genre:: Military
Additional song notes:: Initially without words

On album:: A-080(a) (Army Band — להקת הננח"ל)
Track ID:: 37358
First line:: Betchielah Bali melim mitchila mitchilim
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Gaver v'esha (skit) — גבר ואישה (מערכון)

Genre:: Comedy
Additional song notes:: A man and woman (skit)

On album:: A-080(a) (Army Band — להקת הננח"ל)
Track ID:: 37359
First line:: (Areyea! yelling) Yona, at yodat yefeh emshel em sheli lo mistaklim bayim
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Achron habib — אחרון חביב

Genre:: Army/March/Zionist

On album:: A-080(a) (Army Band — להקת הננח"ל)
Track ID:: 37360
First line:: Achron achron habib sheli
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Propor Kortzavragar — פרופסור קורצברגר

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(d) (Uri Wazir and Shaike Ophir, Funny Collection: When I shoot, I lie down — אורי זיר ושייקה אופיר, האוסף המצחיק: כשיורים אני נשכבת)
Track ID:: 40972
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 3:10

Hatair Hamariki — התייר האמריקאי

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(d) (Uri Wazir and Shaike Ophir, Funny Collection: When I shoot, I lie down — אורי זיר ושייקה אופיר, האוסף המצחיק: כשיורים אני נשכבת)
Track ID:: 40973
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 4:03

Chiam yefeh — החיים יפים

Genre:: Military

On album:: A-080(a) (Army Band — להקת הננח"ל)
Track ID:: 37361
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Haporitz — הפורץ

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(a) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: Hebrew, a difficult language — יוסי בנאי ורבקה מיכאלי האוסף המצחיק: עברית קשה שפה)
Track ID:: 40911
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 8:08

Telephonim — טלפונים

Genre:: Comedy Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(a) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: Hebrew, a difficult language — יוסי בנאי ורבקה מיכאלי האוסף המצחיק: עברית קשה שפה)
Track ID:: 40912
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 11:53

Chabtzalet — חבצלת

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(a) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: Hebrew, a difficult language — יוסי בנאי ורבקה מיכאלי האוסף המצחיק: עברית קשה שפה)
Track ID:: 40913
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 11:19

Mishu Talfun Yikirti — מישהו טלפן יקירתי

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(a) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: Hebrew, a difficult language — יוסי בנאי ורבקה מיכאלי האוסף המצחיק: עברית קשה שפה)
Track ID:: 40914
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 11:40

Dafi Zhab — דפי זהב

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(a) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: Hebrew, a difficult language — יוסי בנאי ורבקה מיכאלי האוסף המצחיק: עברית קשה שפה)
Track ID:: 40915
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 4:02

Kol Kloah v'kol shadcan — קול כלה וקול שדכן

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(a) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: Hebrew, a difficult language — יוסי בנאי ורבקה מיכאלי האוסף המצחיק: עברית קשה שפה)
Track ID:: 40916
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 10:38

Nahar amok — נהר עמוק

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(a) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: Hebrew, a difficult language — יוסי בנאי ורבקה מיכאלי האוסף המצחיק: עברית קשה שפה)
Track ID:: 40917
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 3:04

Zahavah — זהבה

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(a) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: Hebrew, a difficult language — יוסי בנאי ורבקה מיכאלי האוסף המצחיק: עברית קשה שפה)
Track ID:: 40918
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 4:02

Ovrit Kashah Shafah — עברית קשה שפה

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(a) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: Hebrew, a difficult language — יוסי בנאי ורבקה מיכאלי האוסף המצחיק: עברית קשה שפה)
Track ID:: 40919
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 6:01

Menetzach Ha'makhalah — מנצח המקהלה

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40920
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 6:01

Beit Sefer Legnabim — בית ספר לגנבים

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40921
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 10:53

Avo Al Banat — אבו אל בנאת

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40922
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 8:11

Tzionah — ציונה

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40923
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 9:43

Hamorah Labiglit — המורה לאנגלית

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40924
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 9:46

Zhioah V'danah — זיוה ודנה

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40925
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 8:49

Zalman — זלמן

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40926
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 7:49

Hamoshvnik — המושבניק

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40927
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 5:07

Noam Bachirot — נאום בחירות

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40928
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 7:29

Haztlam — הצלם

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40929
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 5:31

Biksing — בוקסינג ג'ו

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40930
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 5:48

Hamkam — המכס

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40931
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 7:16

Biksing — בוקסינג ג'ו

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40932
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 3:54

Hamkam — המכס

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40933
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 6:57

Et Magzimah — את מגזימה

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40934
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 2:36

Hakolav — הכלב

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40935
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 5:47

Shti Chatolot — שתי חתולות

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40936
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 2:46

Eish Machalkat Hanikion — איש מחלקת הניקיון

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40937
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 6:26

Ach, Ahizah Yom Haoldat — אח, איזה יום הולדת

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40938
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 3:54

Kifah Adomah — כיפה אדומה

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40939
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 9:09

Ech, Aizah Lilah (Patichah) — אח, איזה לילה (פתיחה)

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40940
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 10:46

Ama V'doni — אמא ודני

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40941
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 4:10

Takrit Gavol — תקרית גבול

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40942
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 14:13

Chalash Haofi — חלש האופי

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40943
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 4:55

Hatashar — התעשר

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40944
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 5:42

Hamohal, Hashochat, Nahag Chabarat Kadishah — המוהל, השוחט, נהג חברת קדישא

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40945
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 14:00

Simoni Kriah — סימני קריאה

Genre:: Comdey Spoken Word

On album:: B-143(b) (Yossi Banai and Rivka Michaeli, Funny Collection: yofi, comfort! — שייקה אופי, האוסף המצחיק: יופי נחמה!)
Track ID:: 40946
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Comedy / Spoken Word
Length:: 4:35

Mayn Shvester Khaye — מײַן שװעסטער חיה

Author:: Heller, Binem — העלער, בינעם
Composer:: Alberstein, Chava — אַלבערשטײַן, חוה
Genre:: Literary Origin/Holocaust/Memory
Subject:: Sister/Pigtails/Treblinke/Nurtured/Siblings/God's Daughter
Origin:: Alb A-001(l)/Alb K-026(k)2
Transliteration:: Alb A-001(l)/Ephemera 1435/Alb K-026(k)2
Translation:: Alb A-001(l)/Ephemera 1435/Alb K-026(k)2
Additional song notes:: My Sister Chaya

On album:: V0440 (Selected Video & DVD Clips of Klezmer, Folk and Theater Songs (Video))
Track ID:: 41816
First line:: Mayn shvester khaye mit di grine oygn, mayn shvester khaye vos hot mikh…
First line (Yiddish):: מײַן שװעסטער חיה מיט די גרינע אױגן, מײַן שװעסטער חיה מיט די גרינע אויגן,...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:57

A Lodge Meeting — אַ לאָדש מיִטונג

On album:: V-005(b) (Variety Yiddish Theatre)
Track ID:: 421
Artist:: Mintz, Eli and Benjamin Fishbein
First line:: Brider un shvester in...deklar ikh aykh az der meitung iz...
First line (Yiddish):: ברידער און שװעסטער אין...דעקלער איך אײַך אַז דער מיִטונג איז..
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Klezmer Bulldog

Author:: Marmer, Jake
Genre:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word Poetry
Subject:: Klezmer/Bulldog/Persecution/Rape/Eastern Europe
Origin:: Marmer 54
Additional song notes:: Klezmer Music Background

On album:: M-132(a) (Jake Marmer / Hermeneutic Stomp)
Track ID:: 39655
Vocal:: Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:: Wall, Greg
Trumpet:: London, Frank
Keys:: Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:: Maoz, Eyal
First line:: Klezmer bulldog with accordion folds on his face somewhere in these folds…
Language:: English
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Crossroads

On album:: M-123(a) (Miracles Made/ Hits Collection — נסים גרמה / אוסף להימים)
Track ID:: 39660
Vocal:: Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:: Wall, Greg
Trumpet:: London, Frank
Keys:: Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:: Maoz, Eyal
First line:: "There's no cooking after coocking:" once a dream has been in the oven for…
Language:: English
Style:: Literary Origin/Spoken Word

A Khasene In Birobidzan — אַ חתונה אין ביראָבידזשאַן

Author:: Fefer, Itsik — פֿעפֿער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Place/USSR
Subject:: Wedding/Birobidzhan/Romanticized
Origin:: Alb G-033(c)
Translation:: Alb F-033(a)
Additional song notes:: A Wedding Iin Birobidzan

On album:: F-033(a) (Lieutenant=Colonel Itzik Feffer...a recital of his own poems)
Track ID:: 299
Vocal:: Fefer, Lt. Col Itzik — פֿעפֿער, איציק
First line:: Vos hot zikh tsushpilt azoy, s'roysht birobidjan,
First line (Yiddish):: װאַס האַט זיך צושפּילט אַזױ, ס'רױשט ביראָבידזשאַן, דאָס איז אױף אַ..
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: 78 RPM Keystone Recording, Inc., NYC, K 537
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Shadkhente Shadkhente — שדכנטע שדכנטע

On album:: F-003(a) (Fiddler On The Roof Original Israeli Yiddish Cast — אַ פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)
Track ID:: 39667
Vocals:: Cahana, Atalia, Etty Grottes — כּהנא, עתליה, עטי גראָטעס
Vocal:: Arbel, Tirza — ארבל, תרצה
First line:: Oy yente (3x), oyb emetser muz dokh mezaveg zivugim…
First line (Yiddish):: אוי יענטע יענטע יענטע, אָבער עמעציר מוז דאָך מזווג זיווגים…
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Theatre/Spoken Word/Song
Length:: 4:00

Ain't She Cute

On album:: L-037(a) (Sam Levenson But Seriously Folks)
Track ID:: 987
Author/Artist:: Levenson, Sam
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Ana Frank (Monologue) — אַנאַ פֿראַנק (מאָנאָלאָג)

Author:: Teyf, Moyshe — טײף, משה
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Ann Frank

On album:: S-049(a) (I Have A Language Nekhame Sirotina — איך האָב אַ שפּראַך נחמה סעראָטאַנע)
Track ID:: 1270
Vocal:: Sirotina, Nekhame — סיראָטאַנע, נחמה
First line:: Oy, oyfn erd...vos kon kayn foygl nit derlangen,
First line (Yiddish):: אױ, אױפֿן ערד...װאָס קאָן קיין פֿױגל ניט דערלאַנגען שטײט אַנאַ…
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

A Doktor Nebekh — אַ ד"ר נעבעך

On album:: D-005(x) (Dzigan et Szumacher (OS17))
Track ID:: 107
Author:: Szudzig
Comic:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Comic:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Track comment:: Recorded under "A Doktor Nebekh"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Cohen On The Telephone

Genre:: Theater/Humorous

On album:: 060k (Hayman, Joe/ Duprez, Fred/ Cohen on the Telephone/ Happy Tho' Married)
Track ID:: 30593
Vocal:: Hayman, Joe — הײַמאַן, יוסף
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Dialect/Humorous

Ovnt Lid — אָװנט ליד

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Composer:: Hacken, Emanuel — האַקען, עמנואל
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Evening/Nature/Piety/Poetry/Regrets/Wine
Origin:: Manger Illust/Man Roz 253/Alb A-001(l)/K-096(a)
Transliteration:: Hacken 1 46/Alb A-001(l)/K-096(a)
Translation:: Album B-069(a)/Alb A-001(l)/K-096(a)
Additional song notes:: Evening Song

On album:: M-003(a) (Itzik Manger Read by the Author — איציק מאַנגער לײנט איציק מאַנגער)
Track ID:: 14294
Vocal:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
First line:: Shtiler ovnt, tunkl gold, ikh zits baym glezl vayn,
First line (Yiddish):: שטילער אָװנט, טונקל גאָלד, איך זיץ בײַם גלעזל װײַן,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: From "Shtern In Shtoyb" -
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Anathema

Author:: Andreyov, Lenoid Nikolaevitch
Genre:: Literary Origin

On album:: S-003(c) (Maurice Schwartz / Anathema)
Track ID:: 31531
Vocal:: Schwartz, Maurice
Language:: Yiddish/Dramatic
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 8:18

Arestantn — אַרעסטאַנטן

On album:: D-005(x) (Dzigan et Szumacher (OS17))
Track ID:: 1442
Author/Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

A Yom Kippur Scandal

On album:: A-003(q) (Sholom Aleichem's Tales From The Old Country Howard DaSilva)
Track ID:: 789
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Composer:: Hovey, Serge
Artist:: Da Silva, Howard
Artist:: Hovey, Serge, cond
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Translation by Julius and Frances Butwin
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

A Beygele Papir — אַ בײגעלע פּאַפּיר

Author:: Leivick, Halper — לײװיק, האַלפּער
Genre:: Literary Origin

On album:: L-010(a) (Poetry of H. Leivick Recorded in Yiddish by Maxim Brodyn 1)
Track ID:: 13
Vocal:: Brodyn, Maxim — בראָדין, מאַקסים
First line:: Fun toyzand zakhn oyf der velt iz mir fun kindheyt nokh ...
First line (Yiddish):: פֿון טױזאַנט זאַכן אױף דער װעלט איז מיר פֿון קינדהײט נאָך...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Hoo Tsa Tsa (Eng, Yid) — אָ טצאַ טצאַ (ענגליש, ייִדיש)

Related information in folder 1568:

Comments:: 1. 3/31/2017 Text of Hoo Tsa Tsa from Alb M-068(a) entered in Ephemera on March 31, 2017

On album:: V0440 (Selected Video & DVD Clips of Klezmer, Folk and Theater Songs (Video))
Track ID:: 41860
Vocal:: Burstein, Mike — בורשטײַן, מײַק
First line:: Zingen vel ikh yetst a lid, hoo tsa tsa(2), ikh gleyb as dos lidl iz zeyer git,
First line:: זינגען וועל איך יעצט אַ ליד, הו צאַ צאַ (2), איך גלייב אַז דאָס ליד איז זייער
Language:: Yiddish/English
Style:: Theater/Vaudeville/Pop/Humorous/Spoken Word
Length:: 5:20

A Yidisher Protses In Rusland — אַ ייִדישער פּראַצעס אין רודלאַנד

On album:: D-005(k) (S. Dzigans Lach Bombes — ש. דזיגאַנד לאַך באָמבעס)
Track ID:: 780
Author:: Nudelman, Moshe — נודעלמאַן, משה
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Tefner, A. — טעפֿנער, אַ.
Vocal:: Sheftel, Sonia — שעפֿטעל, סוניה
Artist:: Nathan, D. Ben — בּן-נתן, ד.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

WEVD Weather Report

Genre:: Humorous/Comic
Subject:: Weather/Forecast/Rain/Umbrella

On album:: V0440 (Selected Video & DVD Clips of Klezmer, Folk and Theater Songs (Video))
Track ID:: 41862
Vocal:: Gonshor, Ben
First line:: A gut morgen radio tsuherers, do kumt tsu aykh WEVD, da station dot speaks…
First line (Yiddish):: אַ גוט מאָרגען, ראַדיאַ צוהערערס, דאַ קומט צו אײַך, WEVD דאָס ראַדיאָ דאַ...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 1:05

Baym Denkmol In Yad Mordekhe — בײַם דענקמאָל אין יד מרדכי

Author:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Place
Subject:: Yad Mordecai/Holocaust/Memorial/Memory
Origin:: Alb S-016(a)
Additional song notes:: At The Monument In Yad Mordecai

On album:: S-016(a) (The Poetry of Abraham Sutzkever, The Vilno Poet)
Track ID:: 2091
Vocal:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Atsind ven mir shteln di toyte a denkmol, di toyte, vos...
First line (Yiddish):: אַצינד װען מיר שטעלן די טױטע אַ דענקמאָל, די טױטע, װאָס האָבן...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Text and annotations with album notes- Ruth Wisse, annotat
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Ferd Hot Zikh Ge'enendikt — דער פֿערד האָט זיך געענדיקט

Genre:: Humorous/Joke
Subject:: Horse/Conclusion/Self Depreciation

On album:: B-047(d)2 (Jossef Buloff On Stage/ CD 2 — יוסף בולאָף אויף דער בינע סי די 2)
Track ID:: 33108
First line:: Ikh ze, ikh ze, ikh ze az ir hot nokh koyekh,
First line (Yiddish):: איך זע, איך זע, איך זע אַז איר האָט נאָך כּוח,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:58

Vart A Kepele

Author:: Smulewitz, Solomon — שמוליװטש, שלמה
Composer:: Smulewitz, Solomon — שמוליװטש, שלמה

On album:: 001k (Smulewitz, Solomon/ A Brivele Der Mamen/ Vart A Kepele)
Track ID:: 37211
Vocal:: Smulewitz, Solomon — שמוליװטש, שלמה
First line:: …dem shlekhtn tiran,..un er halt zikh groys..a soyne, ven es vert bay im an...
First line (Yiddish):: ... דעם שלעכטן טיראַן..און ער האַלט זיך גרויס..אַ שׂונא ווען עס ווערט בײַ אים
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

A Sach Meloches — א סך מלאכות

Genre:: Song/Comedy
Subject:: Many Professions

On album:: Y-019(b) (Yiddish Humor Vol 4 — ייִדיש הומור מס. 4)
Track ID:: 37793
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 2:56

Au Bureau Des Contributions

On album:: D-005(q)1 (Dzigan et Szumacher Side "A" of Cassette on LP)
Track ID:: 1596
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Track comment:: See "In Shtayer Amt"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Avrom Shikt Eliezrn Zukhn Far… — אַבֿרהם שיקט אַליעזרן זוכן פֿאַר...

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Composer:: Seltzer, Dov — זלצר, דב
Genre:: Literary Origin/Biblical
Subject:: Eliezer/Wife/Isaac/Attractive/Money/Travel/Provisions/Sarah
Origin:: Manger 234
Translation:: Leftwich 554
Additional song notes:: Abraham Send Elieazer To Find A Wife For Isaac. Bible says that "...and the servant took ten camels, camels of his master and departed..." Poet has Eliezer provisioning himself with, among other things, ten hared boiled eggs, two flasks of wine and a roast duck.

On album:: M-003(a) (Itzik Manger Read by the Author — איציק מאַנגער לײנט איציק מאַנגער)
Track ID:: 1706
Author/Poetry Reading:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
First line:: Eliezar, mayn alter getrayer knekht, nem dem shtekn in der..
First line (Yiddish):: אַליעזר, מײַן אַלטער געטרײַער קנעכט, נעם דעם שטעקן אין דער...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: From "Medresh Itsik" "איציק "מדרש
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Banen — באַנען

Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Train
Additional song notes:: Trains

On album:: B-047(a) (Joseph Buloff (Recorded at Sholem Aleichem Club, Phila-1973) — יוסף בולאָװ (שלום עליכם קלוב קאָנצערט, פֿליאַדעלפֿיע - 1973)
Track ID:: 1914
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Banen — באַנען

Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Train
Additional song notes:: Trains

On album:: B-047(c)2 (Joseph Buloff On Stage Cassette 2 — יוסף בולאָף אױף דער בינע קאַסעטע 1)
Track ID:: 1915
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Recorded live in Israel March 14, 1967
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Beerdigung Lenins (Joke)

On album:: L-025(c) (Manfred Lemm NU-ME LAKHT Jiddische Lieder und Geschichten)
Track ID:: 2169
Artist:: Lemm, Manfred
Style:: Spoken Word

Berl Itsik — בערל איציק

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous
Subject:: Railrway/Trains
Transliteration:: Graf 172
Additional song notes:: From "Eyzenban Geshikhten"

On album:: A-003(d) (Sholom Aleichem Monologues with I. Rymer — שלום עליכם מאָנאָלאָגען מיט י. רײמער)
Track ID:: 2266
Vocal:: Rhymer, I. — רײמער, י.
Track comment:: Translated by Dr. Isadore Goldstick
Style:: Spoken Word

Zeydns Tants (Prague 24)

Author:: Traditional
Composer:: Prague 24
Genre:: Instrumental/Neo Klezmer/Fusion
Song comment:: Inspired by a recording made by the clariner Klezmer Dave Tarras in the 1920's

On album:: P-056(a) (Prague' 24/ Seven Good Years)
Track ID:: 37216
Clarinet:: Mitch Blatt
double bass:: Phil Fried
Flute+clarinet:: Chris Gangelhoff
piccolo, wooden flute, woodblock:: Garvin, Jane
Violin:: Maria Mimick
guitar, banjo, bazouki:: Aaron Oster
accordion, Piano:: James Vculek
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Bo Elay Parpar Nechmad (song of meeting) — בא אלי פרפר נחמד

Genre:: Children/Educational/Sing-a-Long
Subject:: Intro
Additional song notes:: "Come to me Little Butterflies"

On album:: B-142(a) (Lovely Butterflies — פרפר נחמד\ שירים וסיפורים מתוך סדרת הטלוויזיה הלימודית לילדים)
Track ID:: 37658
Tenor:: Helmut Klotz
First line:: Taurass Adaunoi, telmei mor
First line (Hebrew):: תרת אדונעה, אמר,
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Rega Shel He'Tamlout — רגע של התעמלות

Genre:: Children/Educational/Sing-a-Long
Subject:: Counting/Body/Teaching
Additional song notes:: "Wait! Exercies!"

On album:: B-142(a) (Lovely Butterflies — פרפר נחמד\ שירים וסיפורים מתוך סדרת הטלוויזיה הלימודית לילדים)
Track ID:: 37659
First line:: Rega shel hi'tamloot. Hagidoo atem kfarit amalte
First line (Yiddish):: רגע של התעמלות
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Szlanger, Lea: Buloff Introduction — שלאַנגער, לאה: אַרײַנפֿיר וואַרט

Genre:: Introduction
Subject:: Buloff/Career

On album:: B-047(c)1 (Joseph Buloff On Stage Cassette 1 — יוסף בולאָף אױף דער בינע קאַסעטע 1)
Track ID:: 2670
Vocal:: Szlanger, Lea — שלאַנגער, לאה
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Recorded live in Israel, March 14, 1967
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:30

Tiyul Katan (Mishkek Azviot Ba'khol) — טיול קטן (משחק אצבעות בחול)

Genre:: Children/Educational/Sing-a-Long
Subject:: Playing in Sand
Additional song notes:: "Small trip (fingers playing with sand)"

On album:: B-142(a) (Lovely Butterflies — פרפר נחמד\ שירים וסיפורים מתוך סדרת הטלוויזיה הלימודית לילדים)
Track ID:: 37662
First line:: l'kachti l'tazpouz v'l'kachti limakel v'atzati litaiel b'eretz yisrael
First line (Hebrew):: לקחתי תפוז ולקחתי לי מקל ואזיטי ליטל באראז ישראל
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 156

Ce Que Vous Voulez

On album:: D-005(q)1 (Dzigan et Szumacher Side "A" of Cassette on LP)
Track ID:: 2721
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Track comment:: See "Vifl Ir Farshteyt"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Nisim B'al Ha'Pasim (shir) — ניסים בעל הפסים (שיר)

Genre:: Children/Educational/Sing-a-Long
Additional song notes:: "Mircales, that have trails(song)"

On album:: B-142(a) (Lovely Butterflies — פרפר נחמד\ שירים וסיפורים מתוך סדרת הטלוויזיה הלימודית לילדים)
Track ID:: 37664
First line:: Shalom yeladim shmi nisim, v'loideah la ma kulam kol im li nisim b'al ha'pasim
First line (Yiddish):: שלום ילדים, שמי ניסים, ולידה
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Gevert v'Adon (machzah leshti edeem) — גברת ואדון (מחזה לשתי ידיים)

Genre:: Children/Educational/Sing-a-Long
Additional song notes:: "Mr. and Mrs/Man And Woman (Play-two hands)"

On album:: B-142(a) (Lovely Butterflies — פרפר נחמד\ שירים וסיפורים מתוך סדרת הטלוויזיה הלימודית לילדים)
Track ID:: 37665
First line:: b'yom shlishi b'boker hit orag
First line (Yiddish):: ביום שלישי בבוקר...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Ha'Flafalim Shel Dinah (Sifour) — הפלפלים של דינה (סיפור)

Genre:: Children/Educational/Sing-a-Long/Poem/Ryhme
Subject:: Story
Additional song notes:: "Peppes of Dinah(story)"

On album:: B-142(a) (Lovely Butterflies — פרפר נחמד\ שירים וסיפורים מתוך סדרת הטלוויזיה הלימודית לילדים)
Track ID:: 37666
First line:: Dinahk dinah mishonat klimantina nichnasa lifnot erev
First line (Yiddish):: דינק דינה מישנועת קלימאנטינה ניכנאסה ליפנוט ערב
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Rega Shel He'Tamlout — רגע של התעמלות

Genre:: Children/Educational/Sing-a-Long
Subject:: Counting/Body/Teaching
Additional song notes:: "Wait! Exercies!"

On album:: B-142(a) (Lovely Butterflies — פרפר נחמד\ שירים וסיפורים מתוך סדרת הטלוויזיה הלימודית לילדים)
Track ID:: 37667
First line:: Rega shel hi'tamloot. Hagidoo atem kfarit amalte
First line (Yiddish):: רגע של התעמלות
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

HaFesim Shel Yo-yo (Sofir) — הפסים של יו-יו (סיפור)

Genre:: Children/Educational/Sing-a-Long
Additional song notes:: Tracks of a Yo-yo (Story)

On album:: B-142(a) (Lovely Butterflies — פרפר נחמד\ שירים וסיפורים מתוך סדרת הטלוויזיה הלימודית לילדים)
Track ID:: 37668
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Yeladim Umitriya (Shir Mishak) — ילדים ומטריה (שיר משחק)

Composer:

Ditiah ben Dor — דתיה בן דור

Genre:

Children/Educational/Sing-a-Long

Subject:

Rain/Game

Origin:

Ephemera 1394

Additional song notes:

"Children and Umbrella (song game)"

Related information in folder 1394:

Comments:: 1. 5/19/2014 Hebrew text of song provided by Chava Kramer entered in Ephemera on May 19, 2014

On album:: B-142(a) (Lovely Butterflies — פרפר נחמד\ שירים וסיפורים מתוך סדרת הטלוויזיה הלימודית לילדים)
Track ID:: 37669
First line:: yeledah echat v'matriah achat yizoah b'geshem…
First line (Hebrew):: ילדה אחת ומטריה אחת יצאו בגשם לטיול נהמדץ פגשו בקצה השביל ילדה בתיך מעיל….
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word/Children's Song
Length:: 3:34

Mishpacha Meyukhedet Beminah — משפחה מיוחדת במינה

Composer:

Ditiah ben Dor — דתיה בן דור

Genre:

Children/Educational/Sing-a-Long

Subject:

Family/Relatives

Origin:

Ephemera 1395

Additional song notes:

"Special Family"

Related information in folder 1395:

Comments:: 1. 5/19/2014 Hebrew song text provided by Chava Kramer entered in Ephemera on May 19, 2014

On album:: B-142(a) (Lovely Butterflies — פרפר נחמד\ שירים וסיפורים מתוך סדרת הטלוויזיה הלימודית לילדים)
Track ID:: 37670
First line:: yesh li mashpacha mihdot shekol hayom eochlat yirakot man ha'gag.
First line (Hebrew):: יש לי משפחה מיהדת במינה, שכל היום אוכלת ירקות מן הגגה
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word/Children's Song

Ich Tzimcheim? (shir mafaeil) — איך צומחים? (שיר מפעיל)

Genre:: Children/Educational/Sing-a-Long
Additional song notes:: "How do we Grow? (Opening Song)"

On album:: B-142(a) (Lovely Butterflies — פרפר נחמד\ שירים וסיפורים מתוך סדרת הטלוויזיה הלימודית לילדים)
Track ID:: 37671
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Yesh li Yeshti Edeaim (shir mafail) — יש לי שתי ידיים (שיר מפעיל)

Genre:: Children/Educational/Sing-a-Long
Subject:: Body Parts/Moving/Interactive
Additional song notes:: "I have two hands (Song operator)"

On album:: B-142(a) (Lovely Butterflies — פרפר נחמד\ שירים וסיפורים מתוך סדרת הטלוויזיה הלימודית לילדים)
Track ID:: 37672
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Sex Appeal

Also known as:

Nikodem

Author:

Wars, Henryk

Author:

Gorska, Stefcia

Composer:

Wars, Henryk

Genre:

Caberet/Polish/Charleston/Novelty

Subject:

Sex Appeal/Sporty/Style/Appearance/Photogenic/Film Star

Origin:

Ephemera 1165 (Polish)

Transliteration:

Ephemera 1165

Translation:

Ephemera 1165

Additional song notes:

Sung in Yiddish and Polish Also performed in the DVD "Neighbors/Skheynim (Video)" #0173 Clip Found at about minute 37 on Video

Related information in folder 1559:

Comments:: 1 3/13/2017 Polish Lyrics, Yiddish Lyrics and English Translation entered in Ephemera on March 13, 2017

On album:: L-044(b) (The Blue Cat Caberet / Love In Palestine 1926 / Ruth Levin — קאַבאַרעט \ די בלויע קאַץ)
Track ID:: 37674
Vocals:: Levin, Ruth — לוין, רותּ
Paino, Musical Arrangement:: Fisz, Avishai
First line:: nish gashlatchter mid der frau
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Lieb — ליבע

Genre:: Cabaret/Vocal/Paino
Subject:: Love
Additional song notes:: "Love"

On album:: L-044(b) (The Blue Cat Caberet / Love In Palestine 1926 / Ruth Levin — קאַבאַרעט \ די בלויע קאַץ)
Track ID:: 37675
Vocals:: Levin, Ruth — לוין, רותּ
Paino, Musical Arrangement:: Fisz, Avishai
First line:: Size me afen hotsn shverd oys hot in ken nicht mir hotches nitchet in estit dos
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Yam Rinan Tag — עם רינען טעג

Genre:: Cabaret/Vocal/Paino
Additional song notes:: "Days They Change"

On album:: L-044(b) (The Blue Cat Caberet / Love In Palestine 1926 / Ruth Levin — קאַבאַרעט \ די בלויע קאַץ)
Track ID:: 37676
Vocals:: Levin, Ruth — לוין, רותּ
Paino, Musical Arrangement:: Fisz, Avishai
First line:: Oh kirsene bloom jzesten shpastershen krum troen hasef hafalenshter krun
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Sarasate's Concerto — סאַראַסטע'ס קאָנצערט

Genre:: Cabaret/Vocal/Paino

On album:: L-044(b) (The Blue Cat Caberet / Love In Palestine 1926 / Ruth Levin — קאַבאַרעט \ די בלויע קאַץ)
Track ID:: 37677
Vocals:: Levin, Ruth — לוין, רותּ
Paino, Musical Arrangement:: Fisz, Avishai
First line:: dunga liebter is hoykertdick alt un gerfir ir leibdick un shlopdik nu zoy a shir
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Moving Mountains

Genre:: Documentary/Theater
Subject:: Identity/Theater/Memory
Additional song notes:: Montreal Yiddish Theater in the USSR

On album:: V0280 (Moving Mountains/ Montreal Yiddish Theater in the USSR (Video))
Track ID:: 37408
Language:: English
Style:: Documentary/Spoken Word
Length:: 28:00

Der Antisemit (Joke)

On album:: L-025(c) (Manfred Lemm NU-ME LAKHT Jiddische Lieder und Geschichten)
Track ID:: 3056
Artist:: Lemm, Manfred
Language:: German
Style:: Spoken Word/Joke

Der Astranaut — דער אַסטראַנאַוט

On album:: D-005(l) (Dzigan V'Shumacher — דז'יגן ושומכר)
Track ID:: 3060
Author/Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Beyle Di Kekhin — בײלע די קעכין (מאָנאָלאָג)

On album:: S-049(a) (I Have A Language Nekhame Sirotina — איך האָב אַ שפּראַך נחמה סעראָטאַנע)
Track ID:: 2363
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Artist:: Sirotina, Nekhame — סיראָטאַנע, נחמה
First line:: Bay mir in oyvn kokht un zit, s'iz keyn shtub do, a yarid,
First line (Yiddish):: בײַ ניר אין אױװן קאָכט און זיט, ס'איז קײן שטוב דאָ, אַ יאַריד,
Track comment:: Monologue adopted from the play "Mazl Tov"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologue

Big And Little, (Kleyn Un...) — קלײן און גרױס

On album:: xS-013(a)
Track ID:: 2399
Author/Vocal:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
First line (Yiddish):: "Short Friday" Eng Version published in
Track comment:: Yid Version published in "Gimpel The Fool And Other Stories"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Bikel, Theodore

On album:: R-024(a) (Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen A Montage/Documentary)
Track ID:: 2403
Vocal:: Bikel, Theodore
Narrator:: Willens, Rita Jacobs
Track comment:: Women Who Lived It" Caedmon TC 2069
Style:: Spoken Word

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

Bread And Candy, Audience Discussion

On album:: B-055(a) (Bread & Candy Script by Irena Klepfisz)
Track ID:: 2578
Vocal:: Bread and Candy Ensemble — אַלפּערט, מיקעל
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Question and answer session
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

21,000 Doctors

Author:: Brooks, Mel
Author:: Reiner, Carl
Genre:: Humorous/Skit
Subject:: Children/Doctors/Accountants/Occupation
Additional song notes:: Excerpt from "2013 Year Old Man" [See Alb 103(a)]

On album:: R-024(a) (Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen A Montage/Documentary)
Track ID:: 2613
Vocal:: Brooks, Mel
Narrator:: Willens, Rita Jacobs
Vocal:: Reiner, Carl
First line:: Now, you've had 42,000 children...
Track comment:: From "2000 and Thirteen" Warner Bros LP BS 2741
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

Kh'vel Oyston Di Shikh — כ'װעל אױסטאָן די שיך

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Reconciliation/God/Return/Poet/Rhyme'Shoes/Sorrow/Weeping
Origin:: Vinkov 7 123/Manger 357Sh Sh 421
Transliteration:: Vinkov 7 123
Translation:: Vinkov 7 124/Lefwich 545/Sh Sh 420
Additional song notes:: I'll Take Off My Shoes "From "Volkns Ibern Dakh" (Clouds Over The Roof)

On album:: G-104(a) (Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Itzik Manger Poems and Ballads — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט איזיק מאַנגער ליד און באַלאַדע)
Track ID:: 35355
Vocal:: Greenhoyz-Turkov, Shura — גרינהויז־טורקאָוו, שורא
First line:: Kh'vel oyston di shikh un dem troyer, un kumen tsu dir...
First line (Yiddish):: כ'װעל אױסטאָן די שיך און דעם טרױער, און קומען צו דיר צוריק--
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 5:18

Di Balada Fun Di Shnirl Shtern — די באַלאַדאַ פֿון די שנירל שטערן

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Loss/Memory/Father/Daughter/Time/Maturity/Place/Yass/Stars
Origin:: Manger 178
Additional song notes:: The Ballad of the Strand of Stars

On album:: G-104(a) (Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Itzik Manger Poems and Ballads — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט איזיק מאַנגער ליד און באַלאַדע)
Track ID:: 35356
First line:: Raboysay, ikh vel aykh zingen a lid, dos lid funem troyerikn glik, vos flatert..
First line (Yiddish):: רבותי, איך וועל אײַך זינגען אַ ליד, דאָס ליד פֿונעם טרויעריקן גליק, וואָס...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 5:18

Oyf Der Stantsie Kolomey — אױף דער סטאַנציע קאָלאָמײ

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Composer:: Stiman, Emma
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Railway Station/Place/Netherworld/GrandparentsVisitor/Poet
Origin:: Manger 326/Alb P-065(a)
Transliteration:: Alb P-065(a)
Translation:: Alb P-065(a)/Ephemera 1296
Additional song notes:: At The Kolomey Train Station / From "Demerung In Shpigl" דעמערונג אין שפּיגל The Darkening Mirror

On album:: G-104(a) (Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Itzik Manger Poems and Ballads — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט איזיק מאַנגער ליד און באַלאַדע)
Track ID:: 35357
Vocal:: Greenhoyz-Turkov, Shura — גרינהויז־טורקאָוו, שורא
First line:: Oyf der stantsie kolomey tsvishn a gantser eyde, shteyn gehoykerte shotns tsvey
First line (Yiddish):: אױף דער סטאַנציע קאָלאָמײ, צװישן אַ גאַנצער עדה, שטייען געהויקערטע שאָטנס צוויי
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: From "Demerung In Shpigl" "שפּיגל אין "דעמערונג
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 2:06

Sankt Besht — סאַנקט בעש"ט

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Bal Shem/Compassion/Night/Dream/Child
Origin:: Manger 109
Transliteration:: Betsky 19/Ephemera 1563
Translation:: Harshav 580/Ephemera 1563
Additional song notes:: From "Lamtern In Vint" (Lanterns in the Wind)

On album:: G-104(a) (Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Itzik Manger Poems and Ballads — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט איזיק מאַנגער ליד און באַלאַדע)
Track ID:: 35358
Vocal:: Greenhoyz-Turkov, Shura — גרינהויז־טורקאָוו, שורא
First line:: Zitst der bal shem kegn mitn nakht in zayn kheyder...
First line (Yiddish):: זיצט דער בעל שם קעגן מיטן נאַכט אין זײַן חדר מיוחד און ער...
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 4:56

Eliyahu Hanovi Leyzt Oys...Funem Lambard — אליהו הנבֿיא לייזט אויס...פֿונעם לאָמבאַרד

Genre:: Literary Origin/Legend
Subject:: Elijah/Pawn/Dress/Redemtion/Poverty/Wedding/Joy/Gloom
Origin:: Manger 373
Translation:: Leftwich GP 548
Additional song notes:: From "Clouds Over The Roof"

On album:: G-104(a) (Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Itzik Manger Poems and Ballads — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט איזיק מאַנגער ליד און באַלאַדע)
Track ID:: 35360
Vocal:: Greenhoyz-Turkov, Shura — גרינהויז־טורקאָוו, שורא
First line:: Vos zingen di groa feygl oyf undzer oremen dakh?
First line (Yiddish):: וואָס זינגען די גראָע פֿייגל אויף אונדזער אָרעמען דאַך?
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 3:01

Di Fon — די פֿאָן

On album:: A-003(l) (Elihu Tenenholtz / Holiday Stories by Sholom Aleichem — אליהו טענענהאָלץ \ יום־טוב מעשיות פֿון שלום עליכם)
Track ID:: 3556
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Vocal:: Tenenholtz, Elihu — טענענהאָלץ, אליהו
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Shney Oyfn Khermon — דער שנײ אױפֿן חרמון

Author:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
Genre:: Literary Origin?Holocaust
Subject:: Mount Khermon
Origin:: Alb S-016((a)
Additional song notes:: The Snow on Mount Khermon

On album:: S-016(a) (The Poetry of Abraham Sutzkever, The Vilno Poet)
Track ID:: 3404
Vocal:: Sutzkever, Avrom — סוצקעװער, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Mai ko mashma lon der shney, vos oufn khermon oybn?
First line (Yiddish):: מאי קמשמע לן דער שנײ, װאָס אױפֿן חרמון אױבן?
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Text and annotations with album notes- Ruth Wisse, annotat
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Soyne Fun Vakatsies — דער שׂונב פֿון װאַקאַציעס

On album:: D-005(h) (Shimon Dzigan & Shmuel Segal — שמיון דזשיגאַן און שמואל סעגאַל)
Track ID:: 3420
Author:: Nudelman, Moshe — נודעלמאַן, משה
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Tel-Aviv Shnorer — דער תּל־אבֿיבֿ שנאָרער

On album:: D-005(m) (Hot A Yid A Lendele Sh. Dzigan — האָט אַ ליד אַ לענדעלע ש. דזשעגאַן)
Track ID:: 3425
Author:: Riterman, Khaim — ריטערמאַן, חיים
Artist:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Tsug Tel-Aviv - Bar-Sheva — דער צוג תּל־אבֿיבֿ - בּאר־שבֿה

On album:: R-012(d) (Greetings From Israel Schamai Rosenblum — אַ גרוס פֿון ישׂראל געקליבענע נאַציאָנאַלע שאַפֿונגען שמאי ראָזענבלום)
Track ID:: 3430
Author:: Tuvin, Yugend — טוּװים, יגנג
Artist:: Rosenblum, Shami — רוזנבלום, שמאי
First line:: Shteyt oyf der stantsie in tel-aviv, a lokomotiv,
First line (Yiddish):: שטײט אױ: דער סטאַנציע תל־אביב, אַ לאָקאָמאָטיװ,
Track comment:: Album notes refer to "after J. Tuvim"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Tsurikgeshrigener — דער צוריקגעשריגענער

On album:: S-013(a) (Isaac Bashevis Singer Reads In Yiddish — יצחק באַשעװיס סינגער)
Track ID:: 3431
Author/Vocal:: Singer, Isaac Bashevis — סינגער, יצחק באַשעװיס
Track comment:: Yid version published in "Gimpel The Fool and Other Stories"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Turist — דער טוריסט

On album:: S-084(a) (Shmuel Segal How The War Started by Yosef Heilblum — שמואל סגל אזױ האָט זיך אָנגעהױבן די מלחמה פֿון יוסף הײלבלום)
Track ID:: 3432
Author:: Talmi, M.
Author:: Heibloom, Yosef — הײַלבלום, יוסף
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Vint Un Mayn Kapaliush — דער װינט און מײַן קאַפּאַליוש

Genre:

Literary Origin

Additional song notes:

The Wind and My Hat

Related information in folder 468:

Document type:: Translation
Author:: Norman A. Newberg
Comments:: Translation of A. Lutzky's poem, "The Wind and my Hat".

On album:: B-047(a) (Joseph Buloff (Recorded at Sholem Aleichem Club, Phila-1973) — יוסף בולאָװ (שלום עליכם קלוב קאָנצערט, פֿליאַדעלפֿיע - 1973)
Track ID:: 3440
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Vint Un Mayn Kapaliush — דער װינט און מײַן קאַפּאַליוש

Genre:

Literary Origin

Additional song notes:

The Wind and My Hat

Related information in folder 468:

Document type:: Translation
Author:: Norman A. Newberg
Comments:: Translation of A. Lutzky's poem, "The Wind and my Hat".

On album:: B-047(c)2 (Joseph Buloff On Stage Cassette 2 — יוסף בולאָף אױף דער בינע קאַסעטע 1)
Track ID:: 3441
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Recorded live in Israel March 14, 1967
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Yidisher Finance Minister — דער ייִדישער פֿינאַנס מיניסטער

Genre:: Humorous/Spoken Word
Subject:: Rabinovitshes/Finance Minister/Taxes/Israeli Politics

On album:: D-005(b) (Sh. Dzigan 1977 — ש. דזשיגען)
Track ID:: 3464
Author:: Sidon, Mark Sidonia
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Natan, Misha — מתן, מישה
First line:: Meyle, az di sovetishe firer hobn feint Rabinovitshes, ken ikh nokh farshteyn,…
First line (Yiddish):: מילא, אַז די סםוועטישער פֿירער האָבן פֿײַנט ראַבינאָוויטשעס קען איך נאָך...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humor
Length:: 9:50

Di Balade Fun Di Dray Vayse Toybn — די באַלאַדע פֿון די דרײַ װײַסע טױבען

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק

On album:: M-003(d) (Ovent Itsik Manger Poems and Songs by Itsik Manger — אָװענט (ערב) איציק מאַנגער)
Track ID:: 3509
Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Artist:: Kharife, Zerara (?) חריפאי, זהרירה
First line:: Zogt dos meydl tsum shpigl a shprukh:"Eyns un eyns iz tsvay"
First line (Yiddish):: זאָגט דאָס מײדל צום שפּיגל אַ שפּרוך: "אײנס און אײנס איז צװײ"
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: From "Shtern Oyfn Dakh"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Di Balade Fun Iev Der Tvue-Soykher — די באַלאַדע פֿון איובֿ דעם תּבֿואה-סוחר

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Message/Calamities/Endurance/Owl/Sadness/Willow Tree
Origin:: Manger Roz 212

On album:: B-047(a) (Joseph Buloff (Recorded at Sholem Aleichem Club, Phila-1973) — יוסף בולאָװ (שלום עליכם קלוב קאָנצערט, פֿליאַדעלפֿיע - 1973)
Track ID:: 3512
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
First line:: Tsu Yoiv, dem tvue soykher, genent der ersther shtofet:
First line (Yiddish):: צו איובֿ, דעם תּבֿואה-םוחר, גענענט דער ערשטער שטאָפֿעט,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: From "Volkns Ibern Dakh"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Continual Arab Hostility

On album:: M-045(a) (Golda Meir Israel's Woman of Valor)
Track ID:: 2821
Artist:: Meir, Golda
Track comment:: Address UN 1956
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

A Heylung Far Di Nerven — אַ הײלונג פֿאַר די נערװען

Also known as:: Cure De Nerfs

On album:: D-005(y) (Dzigan et Szumacher (STD 2009))
Track ID:: 2856
Author:: Shudzhig — שודזשיג
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Track comment:: Recorded under "Cure De Nerfs"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Der Kuntsn-Makher — דער קונצן־מאַכער

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin/Short Story
Subject:: Magician/Poverty/Spoon/Seder/Elijah/Faith/Charity/Passover
Origin:: Per Lip 128/Alb O-004(a)
Translation:: Per Lip 128/Peretz 25

On album:: O-004(a) (Jewish Classical Literature read by Chaim Ostrowsky)
Track ID:: 3207
Vocal:: Ostrovsky, Khaim — אָסטראָװסקי, חיים
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Text with album notes.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Leydikgeyer — דער לײדיקגײער

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous
Subject:: Railway/Railroad/Train/Meandering/Idler
Additional song notes:: From "Eyzenban Geshikhtn"

On album:: A-003(a) (Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh / The Little People — שלום עליכם די קלײנע מענטשעלעך)
Track ID:: 3215
Vocal:: Rudensky, Shmuel — רודענסקי, שמואל
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Vocal:: Goldenberg, Eliyahu — גאָלדענבערג, אליהו
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Milioner — דער מיליאָנער

On album:: D-005(p) (S. Dzigan-Lakht Mit Mir Program Fun Sha Sha Der Sholom Geyt — ש. דזשיגאַן לאַכט מיט מיר פּראָגראַם פֿון "שאַ שאַ דער שלום גײט)
Track ID:: 3229
Author/Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Humorous/Spoken Word

Der Nakht Vekhter — דער נאַכט װעכטער

Additional song notes:: The Night Watchman

On album:: D-005(g) (Dzigan et Szumacher Sketchs Et Monologues)
Track ID:: 3234
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Der Nakht Vekhter — דער נאַכט װעכטער

Additional song notes:: The Night Watchman

On album:: D-005(q)1 (Dzigan et Szumacher Side "A" of Cassette on LP)
Track ID:: 3235
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Track comment:: See Also D-05(g)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Der Nayer Dor — דער נײַער דור

On album:: S-084(a) (Shmuel Segal How The War Started by Yosef Heilblum — שמואל סגל אזױ האָט זיך אָנגעהױבן די מלחמה פֿון יוסף הײלבלום)
Track ID:: 3239
Author:: Heibloom, Yosef — הײַלבלום, יוסף
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Der Nayer Maranen Seder — דער נײַער מאַראַנען ליד

Author:: Shazar, Zalman — שאַזאַר, זלמן
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Marrano/Seder/Peysekh/Passover

On album:: R-012(d) (Greetings From Israel Schamai Rosenblum — אַ גרוס פֿון ישׂראל געקליבענע נאַציאָנאַלע שאַפֿונגען שמאי ראָזענבלום)
Track ID:: 3245
Vocal:: Rosenblum, Shami — רוזנבלום, שמאי
First line:: S'iz vokhedik mayn kheyder, un khumetsdik mayn tish,
First line (Yiddish):: ס'איז װאָכעדיק מײַן חדר, און חמצדיק מײַן טיש,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Oksn Kamf — דער אָקסן קאַמף

Author:: Kupsan — קופּסאַן
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Animal/Bull Fight/Killing/Senselessness/Cruelty
Additional song notes:: The Bull fight

On album:: B-047(a) (Joseph Buloff (Recorded at Sholem Aleichem Club, Phila-1973) — יוסף בולאָװ (שלום עליכם קלוב קאָנצערט, פֿליאַדעלפֿיע - 1973)
Track ID:: 3276
Adaptation:: Halpern, Moyshe Leyb — האַלפּערן, משה לײב
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Oksn Kamf — דער אָקסן קאַמף

Author:: Kupsan — קופּסאַן
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Animal/Bull Fight/Killing/Senselessness/Cruelty
Additional song notes:: The Bull fight

On album:: B-047(c)2 (Joseph Buloff On Stage Cassette 2 — יוסף בולאָף אױף דער בינע קאַסעטע 1)
Track ID:: 3277
Adaptation:: Halpern, Moyshe Leyb — האַלפּערן, משה לײב
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Recorded live in Israel March 14, 1967
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word
Length:: 5:15

Der Oleh Fun Shanghai — דער עולה פֿון שאַנכאי

On album:: D-005(p) (S. Dzigan-Lakht Mit Mir Program Fun Sha Sha Der Sholom Geyt — ש. דזשיגאַן לאַכט מיט מיר פּראָגראַם פֿון "שאַ שאַ דער שלום גײט)
Track ID:: 3278
Author/Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Humerous/Spoken Word

Di Feste Shtelung (Playlet) — די פֿעסטע שטעלונג

On album:: S-064(b) (Di Feste Shtelung Produced and Recorded by S. Sandel)
Track ID:: 3551
Track comment:: Amatuerish, poorly done. Unforunate material
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Playlet/Spoken Word

Zing, Fagele, Zing — זינג, פייגעלע, זינג

Genre:: Cabaret/Vocal/Paino
Subject:: Birds
Additional song notes:: "Sing, Birdie, Sing"

On album:: L-044(b) (The Blue Cat Caberet / Love In Palestine 1926 / Ruth Levin — קאַבאַרעט \ די בלויע קאַץ)
Track ID:: 37678
Vocals:: Levin, Ruth — לוין, רותּ
Paino, Musical Arrangement:: Fisz, Avishai
First line:: zing,fagele,z, mach mogen is greing derfreish dederkuren der mayne kinder youren
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Alnat — עלנט

Genre:: Cabaret/Vocal/Paino
Additional song notes:: "Alone"

On album:: L-044(b) (The Blue Cat Caberet / Love In Palestine 1926 / Ruth Levin — קאַבאַרעט \ די בלויע קאַץ)
Track ID:: 37679
Vocals:: Levin, Ruth — לוין, רותּ
Paino, Musical Arrangement:: Fisz, Avishai
First line (Yiddish):: בראנע
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Dialogn Tsvishn Yidn — דיאַלאָגן צװישן ייִדן

On album:: R-012(a) (Yizkor Shammai Rosenblum — יזכּור שמאי רוזנבלום)
Track ID:: 3854
Author/Artist:: Rosenblum, Shami — רוזנבלום, שמאי
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word

Friling — פרילינג

Genre:: Cabaret/Vocal/Paino
Additional song notes:: "Spring"

On album:: L-044(b) (The Blue Cat Caberet / Love In Palestine 1926 / Ruth Levin — קאַבאַרעט \ די בלויע קאַץ)
Track ID:: 37680
Vocals:: Levin, Ruth — לוין, רותּ
Paino, Musical Arrangement:: Fisz, Avishai
First line:: De zunshine sayne de luft iz brain de fayglen zinglin a frelings lied kinder shp
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Fox Trot — פאָקטטראָט

Genre:: Cabaret/Vocal/Paino

On album:: L-044(b) (The Blue Cat Caberet / Love In Palestine 1926 / Ruth Levin — קאַבאַרעט \ די בלויע קאַץ)
Track ID:: 37681
Vocals:: Levin, Ruth — לוין, רותּ
Paino, Musical Arrangement:: Fisz, Avishai
First line:: Ich blonge in ghetto un gesle tsu geslech un kemin gefmen kein nort, niet toyz
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Un Der Hamon — אין דער המון

Genre:: Cabaret/Vocal/Paino
Additional song notes:: "The Crowd"

On album:: L-044(b) (The Blue Cat Caberet / Love In Palestine 1926 / Ruth Levin — קאַבאַרעט \ די בלויע קאַץ)
Track ID:: 37682
Vocals:: Levin, Ruth — לוין, רותּ
Paino, Musical Arrangement:: Fisz, Avishai
First line:: Anzy, Tzvey trit and trot and tront and treit
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Mazl — מזל

Also known as:: Mayn Mazl
Author:: Picon, Molly — פּיקאָן, מאָלי
Composer:: Ellstein, Abe — עלשטײַן, אײב
Genre:: Theatre/Lament/Waltz
Subject:: Life/Fate/Happiness/Regret
Song comment:: Introduced in the film "Mamele".
Origin:: GYF 48/Alb F-024(e)/Metro Scher 30
Transliteration:: Alb K-007(a)/Warem 136/GYF 48/Alb D-004(k)/Alb W-031(a)/SM Scher 7
Translation:: Alb T-015(c)/GYF 51/Alb D-004(k)/Alb W-031(a)/
Music:: Warem 136/GYF 49/MS Scher 7
Additional song notes:: Luck/Fate Karsten Troyke characterizes this erroneously as "Traditional" On Alb T-028(b) it is recorded under title "Mazl Du Shaynst Amol Far Yeydem"

On album:: L-044(b) (The Blue Cat Caberet / Love In Palestine 1926 / Ruth Levin — קאַבאַרעט \ די בלויע קאַץ)
Track ID:: 37683
Vocal:: Levin, Ruth — לוין, רותּ
Piano/ Musical Arrangement:: Fisz, Avishai
First line:: Mazl, es sheynst a mol far yedn, Far yedn nor nisht far mir, mazl du brengst
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Divorce Kosher Style

On album:: W-012(a) (When You're In Love The Whole World Is Jewish)
Track ID:: 3895
Artist:: Gallop, Frank and Betty Walker
Artist:: You Don't Have To Be Jewish Play..
First line:: Next case, Mrs Esther Feldman. Coming your highness,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: "Enough is Enough"
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word

The Blue Cat — די בלויע קאַץ

Genre:: Cabaret/Vocal/Paino

On album:: L-044(b) (The Blue Cat Caberet / Love In Palestine 1926 / Ruth Levin — קאַבאַרעט \ די בלויע קאַץ)
Track ID:: 37684
Vocals:: Levin, Ruth — לוין, רותּ
Paino, Musical Arrangement:: Fisz, Avishai
First line:: (hiss) Zingen Katz hemen bloy afen dakh tzuru salt du ra katz dura sach
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Abi Gezunt (Blue Katz/Pryziska) — אַבי געזונט

Genre:: Cabaret/Vocal/Paino

On album:: L-044(b) (The Blue Cat Caberet / Love In Palestine 1926 / Ruth Levin — קאַבאַרעט \ די בלויע קאַץ)
Track ID:: 37686
Vocal:: Levin, Ruth — לוין, רותּ
Piano/ Musical Arrangement:: Fisz, Avishai
First line:: A bisil zun a bisl regn a ruikh ort, dem kop tsu legn, abi gezunt, ken men…
First line (Yiddish):: אַ ביסל זון, אַ ביסל רעגן, אַ רויִק אָרט דעם קאָפּ צו לײגן, קען מען גליקלעך
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous
Length:: 4:33

Friling — פרילינג

Genre:: Cabaret/Vocal/Paino
Additional song notes:: "Spring"

On album:: L-044(b) (The Blue Cat Caberet / Love In Palestine 1926 / Ruth Levin — קאַבאַרעט \ די בלויע קאַץ)
Track ID:: 37689
Vocals:: Levin, Ruth — לוין, רותּ
Paino, Musical Arrangement:: Fisz, Avishai
First line:: Ich blonge in ghetto fun gesleh tsu geslech in kayne gifemin kynort nitoyez
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Di Mame (Monologue)

On album:: T-023(a) (Those Were The Days)
Track ID:: 3653
Vocal:: Bern, Mina — בערן, מינע
First line:: I came to share with you my joy, my nakes I have from my...
Track comment:: From "Those Were The Days"
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Monologue

Di Mayers Un Di Shnayers — די מאירס און די שניאורס

Also known as:: Di Yorshim
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humorous
Subject:: Twins/Conflict/Identity/Honors/Reb Yosifl/Arbitration/Beards
Translation:: Ale Samuel 102

On album:: A-003(a) (Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh / The Little People — שלום עליכם די קלײנע מענטשעלעך)
Track ID:: 3681
Vocal:: Rudensky, Shmuel — רודענסקי, שמואל
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Vocal:: Goldenberg, Eliyahu — גאָלדענבערג, אליהו
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Translated by Samuels under "A Seat By The Eastern Wall"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Der Rebe In Der Jeschiwe (Joke)

On album:: L-025(c) (Manfred Lemm NU-ME LAKHT Jiddische Lieder und Geschichten)
Track ID:: 3376
Artist:: Lemm, Manfred
Style:: Spoken Word

Di Hagode Fun Yor Tof Shin Khof... — די הגדה פֿון יאָר תּשכ"ז

Genre:: Literary Origin

On album:: B-047(a) (Joseph Buloff (Recorded at Sholem Aleichem Club, Phila-1973) — יוסף בולאָװ (שלום עליכם קלוב קאָנצערט, פֿליאַדעלפֿיע - 1973)
Track ID:: 3616
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Donenson, Judith

On album:: N-007(a) (The New Slavery)
Track ID:: 3986
Vocal:: Donenson, Judith
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Narration

Di Letste Gedank (Playlet) — די לעצטע געדאַנק

On album:: S-064(a) (Di Letste Gedank Produced and Recorded By S. Sandel — די לעצטע געדאָנק אַ האָרצליכע שענע שפּיל געשפּילט קורך הײנישע...)
Track ID:: 3639
Track comment:: Amatuerish, poorly done. Unforunate material
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Di Letste Yidn Farlozn Di Shtot — די לעצטע ייִדן פֿאַרלאָזן די שטאָט

On album:: R-012(a) (Yizkor Shammai Rosenblum — יזכּור שמאי רוזנבלום)
Track ID:: 3641
Author/Artist:: Rosenblum, Shami — רוזנבלום, שמאי
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word

Di Poeme Vegn Froyishe Hent — די פּאָעמע װעגן פֿרויישע הענט

Author:: Vergelis, Aaron — װערגעליס, אהרן
Genre:: Literary Origin/USSR
Additional song notes:: The Poem About Women's Hands

On album:: V-006(a) (Poems and Songs by Aron Vergelis)
Track ID:: 3748
Vocal:: Vergelis, Aaron — װערגעליס, אהרן
First line:: Kh'volt zey nit konen oystrakhtn, kh'volt zey nit konen...
First line (Yiddish):: כ'װאָלט זײ ניט קאָנען אױסטראַכטן, כ'װאָלט זײ ניט קאָנען...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Recording made in USSR
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Di Shtot Fun Di Kleyne Mentshelekh — די שטאָט פֿון די קלײנע מענטשעלעך

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Description/Place/PovertyPrimitave/Institutions/Types/
Translation:: Graf 154

On album:: A-003(a) (Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh / The Little People — שלום עליכם די קלײנע מענטשעלעך)
Track ID:: 3770
Vocal:: Rudensky, Shmuel — רודענסקי, שמואל
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Vocal:: Goldenberg, Eliyahu — גאָלדענבערג, אליהו
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Doktor Nebekh — ד"ר נעבעך

On album:: D-005(g) (Dzigan et Szumacher Sketchs Et Monologues)
Track ID:: 3929
Comic:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Comic:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Doktor Nebekh — ד"ר נעבעך

On album:: D-005(x) (Dzigan et Szumacher (OS17))
Track ID:: 3930
Author:: Szudzig
Vocal:: Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון
Vocal:: Shumacher, Yisroel — שומאַכער, ישׂראל
Track comment:: Recorded under "A Doktor Nebekh"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Dos Groyse Gevins — דאַס גרױסע געװינס

On album:: A-003(m)
Track ID:: 4049
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Artist:: Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל
Track comment:: From series of five tapes - tape 1, side A and B
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Dos Heylige Shnayderl — דאָס הײליגע שנײַדערל

Also known as:: Kiddush Hashem (Excerpt)
Author:: Asch, Sholom — אַש, שלום
Composer:: Achron, Yosef — אחרון, יוסף
Genre:: Theatre
Subject:: Tailor/Lamed Vov/Faith
Song comment:: From the play based on novel of same name "Kiddish Hasem".

On album:: S-003(b) (Maurice Schwartz)
Track ID:: 4052
Vocal:: Schwartz, Maurice
First line:: Men ruft mir dos heylige shnayderl, ikh bin bakant in ale...
First line (Yiddish):: מען רופֿט מיר דאָס הײליגע שנײַדערל, איך בין באַקאָנט אין אַלע…
Track comment:: Excerpt from the play "Kidush Hashem"
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Farkisheft — פֿאָרכּישופֿט

Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
Genre:: Literary Origin
Additional song notes:: Bewitched

On album:: B-047(a) (Joseph Buloff (Recorded at Sholem Aleichem Club, Phila-1973) — יוסף בולאָװ (שלום עליכם קלוב קאָנצערט, פֿליאַדעלפֿיע - 1973)
Track ID:: 5129
Vocal:: Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף
Author:: Manger, Itzik — מאַנגער, איציק
First line:: Raboysay, lakht's nisht op fun kishef, got zol aykh bahitn,
First line (Yiddish):: רבּותי, לאַכט'ס נישט אָפּ פֿון כּישוף, גאָט זאָל אײַך באַהיטן,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: From "Shtern In Shtoyb" "שטױב אין "שטערן
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Drite Klas — דריטע קלאַס

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin/Humor
Subject:: Train/Travelers/Stories/Confusion

On album:: A-003(d) (Sholom Aleichem Monologues with I. Rymer — שלום עליכם מאָנאָלאָגען מיט י. רײמער)
Track ID:: 4316
Vocal:: Rhymer, I. — רײמער, י.
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Es Es Leyt Firn Adurkh Di...(Heb) — עס עס לײט פֿירן אַדורך די סעלקציע

On album:: R-012(a) (Yizkor Shammai Rosenblum — יזכּור שמאי רוזנבלום)
Track ID:: 4800
Author/Artist:: Rosenblum, Shami — רוזנבלום, שמאי
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word

Farshterter Peysikh — פֿאַרשטערטער פּסח

On album:: A-003(l) (Elihu Tenenholtz / Holiday Stories by Sholom Aleichem — אליהו טענענהאָלץ \ יום־טוב מעשיות פֿון שלום עליכם)
Track ID:: 5138
Vocal:: Tenenholtz, Elihu — טענענהאָלץ, אליהו
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Halleluya Hallelu-El Bekodshu — הללויה הללו־אל בקדשו

Also known as:: Psalm 150
Genre:: Psalm/Biblical
Subject:: Psalm 150/Praise/Music/Exaltation/Horn/Psaltry/Harp/Drum
Origin:: Alb B-033(b)
Transliteration:: Alb Z-020(a)/Alb F-015(b)
Translation:: Alb F-015(b)/Alb F-033(b)

On album:: B-007(i) (Theodore Bikel Song Of Songs and other Bible Prophecies)
Track ID:: 5973
Vocal/Recitative:: Bikel, Theodore
Composer of background/accompaning music:: Seltzer, Dov — זלצר, דב
First line:: Hallelujah. Sing unto the Lord a new song And his praise...
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: English
Style:: Spoken Word/Dramatic

Ikh Benk Aheym (Satz) — איך בענק אַהײם (זאַץ)

Author:

Satz, Ludwig — זאַץ, לודװיג

Composer:

Rumshinsky, Yosef — רומשינסקי, יאָסף

Genre:

Theater

Subject:

Holidays/Havdola/Shabos/Yom Kippur/Khasidim/Kheyder/Family

Origin:

Alb S-025(a)

Additional song notes:

I Long For Home From the musical "Dem Rebns Nigun" Heskes 2944. See "Ikh Benk Aheym (Malavasky" for similar song.

Related information in folder 785:

Comments:: 1. Yiddish Text

On album:: 001p (Satz, Ludwig/ Ikh Benk Aheym/)
Track ID:: 37382
First line:: Ikh dermon zikh shabos koydesh, vaytns in der heym,
First line (Yiddish):: איך דערמאָן זיך שבּת קדוש, װײַטנס אין דער הײם,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word/Humorous

Gelt (Sirotina) — געלט (סיראָטינאַ)

Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Money/Domination

On album:: S-049(a) (I Have A Language Nekhame Sirotina — איך האָב אַ שפּראַך נחמה סעראָטאַנע)
Track ID:: 5586
Vocal:: Sirotina, Nekhame — סיראָטאַנע, נחמה
First line:: Gelt, gelt gelt, bahersht, bahersht di velt,
First line (Yiddish):: געלט, געלט, געלט, באַהערשט, באַהערשט די װעלט,
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Keyn Mol Nisht Fargesn... — קײן מאָל נישט פֿאָרגעסן

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Memory/Literature
Additional song notes:: From the preface to Sholom Aleichem's "Di Shtot Fun Di Kleyne Mentshelekh"

On album:: A-003(a) (Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh / The Little People — שלום עליכם די קלײנע מענטשעלעך)
Track ID:: 7946
Vocal:: Rudensky, Shmuel — רודענסקי, שמואל
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Vocal:: Goldenberg, Eliyahu — גאָלדענבערג, אליהו
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Kenig Akhashveyresh — קעניג אחשורוש

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Purim

On album:: A-003(l) (Elihu Tenenholtz / Holiday Stories by Sholom Aleichem — אליהו טענענהאָלץ \ יום־טוב מעשיות פֿון שלום עליכם)
Track ID:: 7898
Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Vocal:: Tenenholtz, Elihu — טענענהאָלץ, אליהו
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

Kenig Akhashveyresh — קעניג אחשורוש

Author:: Sholom Aleichem — שלום עליכם
Genre:: Literary Origin
Subject:: Purim

On album:: A-003(a) (Sholom Aleichem / Di Kleyne Mentshelekh / The Little People — שלום עליכם די קלײנע מענטשעלעך)
Track ID:: 7899
Vocal:: Rudensky, Shmuel — רודענסקי, שמואל
Vocal:: Segal, Shmuel — שמואל סעגאַל
Vocal:: Goldenberg, Eliyahu — גאָלדענבערג, אליהו
Hebrew Adaptation:: Berkowitz, I. D. — י. ד. ברקובץ
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:: Hebrew translation by I. D. Berkowitz
Language:: Hebrew
Style:: Spoken Word

Groyse Oygn Sheyn (Yiddish) — גרױסע אױגן שײן (עמגליש, ייִדיש)

On album:: L-029(a) (Abe Luski Evening Charlotte, North Carolina (1968))
Track ID:: 5808
Author:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
Artist:: Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם
First line:: Groyse oygn sheyn, groyse vi der teyfer yam,
First line (Yiddish):: גרױסי אױגן שײן, גרױסע װי דער טיפֿער ים,
Audio:: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:: Yiddish
Style:: Spoken Word

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