Name:
Fefer, Lt. Col Itzik
Name (Yiddish):
פֿעפֿער, איציק
Born:
1900 (Shpola, Zvenigorod, Kiev Gubarnia, Russia)
Died:
August 12, 1952 (Soviet Prison)
Note:
Info from Wikopedia as of August18, 2011

Songs written or composed

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

Recordings

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
On album:
G-018(c) (Emil Gorovets Sings Songs of the Martyred Yiddish Poets...)
Track ID:
19491
Vocal:
Gorovets, Emil (Rakhmil) Iakovlevich — גאָראָװעץ, עמיל
Piano:
Mlotek, Zalmen — מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)
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:
Conflict-poetry books as to whether Feffer died in '48 or 52
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Concert
On album:
A-038(c) (Mark Aizikovitch / In Jiddischn Wort / Lieder Verfolgter judisch-sowjetischer dichter — אין ייִדישען וואָרט)
Track ID:
31421
Vocal/Arranger:
Ayzikovitch, Mark — אײַזיקאָװיטש, מאַרק
Guitar/Arranger/Vocal:
Yavir, Nikolai — יאַוויר, ניקאָלי
Piano/Arranger/Vocal:
Nasarov, Konstantin — נאַזאַראָוו, קאָנסטאַנטין
Violin/Vocal:
Babenko, Alexander — באַבענקאָ, אַלעקסאַנדער
First line:
Der vayn fun doyresidkn doyer hot mikh geshtarked in…
First line (Yiddish):
דער װײַן פֿון דורותדיקן דױער האַט מיך גישטאַרקט אין װאַנדערװעג,
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Concert
Length:
3:48
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
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

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

Other tracks with this artist

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

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