Name:
Harshav, Benjamin
Related information in folder 1471:
Comments:
1. 12/2008 Article in the Jewish Quarterly of December 2008 titled " Benjamin Harshav: The Moscow Yiddish Theater" Posted by Edna Nahshon on Dec 16, 2008

2. 5/15/2015 Obituary of Benjamin Harshav published in the Yiddish Forverts of May 15, 2015 by Itzik Blimen titled "Binyumen Harshev (Harshavski) - Avek In Der Eybikeyt (Benjamin Harshav - Away in Eternity)

Tracks with this artist

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

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

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

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

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