Songs written or composed
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
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