immigrant

Recordings

On album:

G-013(c) (The Golden Land, a joyous new musical Original Cast Album)

Track ID:

16252

Author:

Lowenworth, Sam

Composer:

Rumshinsky, Yosef — רומשינסקי, יאָסף

Vocalist:

Golden Land Company

Artist:

Golden Land Klezmer Orchestra

Orchestration:

Sokolow, Pete — סוקולוב, פּסח

First line:

Vatch your step, all the people shout, Vatch your step,

Track comment:

English by Zalman Molek, Moishe Rosenfeld and Jacques Levy.

On album:

K-029(f) (The Klezmer Conservatory Band Old World Beat)

Track ID:

16253

Author:

Lowenworth, Sam / Judy Bressler

Composer:

Rumshinsky, Yosef — רומשינסקי, יאָסף

Artist:

Klezmer Conservatory Band

Vocal:

Bressler, Judy

Conductor:

Netsky, Hankus

First line:

Amerika, a land nur fun hurry up, eyner loyft in biznes,

First line:

אַמעריקאַ, אַ לאַנד נור פֿון "הורי אָפּ, אײנער לױפֿט אין "בּיזנעס",

Track comment:

Additional verses by Judy Bressler

On album:

W-024(a) (Paved With Gold Starring Gary & Janice Waldman)

Track ID:

23678

Vocal:

Waldman, Gary

Author:

Lowenworth, Sam

Composer:

Rumshinsky, Yosef — רומשינסקי, יאָסף

Vocal:

Waldman, Janice

Artist:

Golden Land Klezmer Orchestra

Piano/Conductor:

Delfin, Jon

First line:

Vatch your step, all the people shout, Vatch your step,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

From "Paved With Gold" originally from musical Berele Tremp

On album:

C-035(b) (Adrianne Cooper & Zalmen Mlotek/An Afternoon Of Jewish Music)

Track ID:

25685

Author:

Lowenworth, Sam

Composer:

Rumshinsky, Yosef — רומשינסקי, יאָסף

Vocal:

Cooper, Adrienne — קאָפּער, חנה־פֿריידע

Artist:

Mlotek, Zalmen — מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)

First line:

Vatch your step, all the people shout, Vatch your step,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

An Afternoon of Yiddish Music

On album:

L-050(a) (Martin Lorber Collection of 78 RPM Recordings)

Track ID:

27649

Vocal:

Schwartz, William — שוואַרץ, וויליאַם

First line:

Amerika, a land nur fun hurry up, eyner loyft in biznes,

First line:

אַמעריקאַ, אַ לאַנד נור פֿון "הורי אָפּ, אײנער לױפֿט אין "בּיזנעס",

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

From Columbia E7625 From the musical - Berele Tremp

Language:

Yiddish/Yinglish

Style:

Klezmer/Tenor

On album:

L-050(a) (Martin Lorber Collection of 78 RPM Recordings)

Track ID:

27664

Vocalist:

Weisman, G.

First line:

Shtey oyf many man un tu un di takhtoynim, un gey zikh...

First line (Yiddish):

שטײ אױף מײַן מאַן און טו אָן די תּחתּונים (?), און גײ זיך זוכן...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Columbia E6104 78rpm

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Klezmer/Concert

On album:

M-068(a)48 (Milken/Joseph Rumshinsky: Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage, Vol 3)

Track ID:

33377

Vocal:

Borts, Joanne

Arranger:

Russ, Patrick

Artist:

Vienna Chamber Orchestra

Conductor:

Jaffe, Elli

First line:

Amerika, a land nur fun hurry up, eyner loyft in biznes,

First line (Yiddish):

אַמעריקאַ, אַ לאַנד נור פֿון "הורי אָפּ, אײנער לױפֿט אין "בּיזנעס",

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Vaudeville

Length:

2:20

Recording

On album:

L-050(a) (Martin Lorber Collection of 78 RPM Recordings)

Track ID:

27650

Vocal:

Schwartz, William — שוואַרץ, וויליאַם

First line:

Amerika iz a farkerter velt, a golden land far narunim,

First line (Yiddish):

אַמעריקאַ איז אַ פֿאַרקערטער װעלט, אַ גאָלדען לאַנד פֿאַר נאַרונים,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Columbia E7625 From musical-Di Voyle Yungen

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Klezmer/Tenor

Recordings

On album:

L-050(a) (Martin Lorber Collection of 78 RPM Recordings)

Track ID:

27654

Vocalist:

Goldstein, Gus

First line:

A butsherl a kinstler, bin ikh...

First line (Yiddish):

אַ בוטשערל, אַ קינסטער, בין איך...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Columbia 8035F 78 Box 002, Tape 19

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Klezmer/Tenor

On album:

055p (Goldstein, Morris/ Der Rebe Zol Lebn/ Dos Butsherl)

Track ID:

30368

Artist:

Goldstein, Morris — גאָלדשטייַן, מאָריס

Language:

Yiddish

On album:

002b (Goldstein, Morris/ Dos Butsherl/ Nemt A Chance)

Track ID:

28811

Artist:

Goldstein, Morris — גאָלדשטייַן, מאָריס

Language:

Yiddish

On album:

L-059(a) (Lider Fun Boydem 2/Di Beste Lider Fun 78 Platen/Songs From The Attic/The Best of 78 Records/ Ikh Lib Dikh — לידער פֿון בוידעם 2\די בעסטע לידער פֿון 78 פּלאַטען\ איך ליב דיך)

Track ID:

32957

Vocal:

Brun, Max — ברון, מאַקס

First line:

A katsef, a kinstler, bin ikh eyner,

First line (Yiddish):

אַ קצבֿ, אַ קינסטער, בין איך איינער,

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Vaudeville

Length:

2:57

Recording

On album:

L-050(a) (Martin Lorber Collection of 78 RPM Recordings)

Track ID:

27655

Vocalist:

Goldstein, Gus

First line:

A boy geyt mit a meydl fun arum a lange tsayt,

First line (Yiddish):

אַ בױ גײט מיט אַ מײדל פֿון אַרום אַ לאַנגע צײַט,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Columbia 8035F 78 Box 002, Tape 19

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Klezmer/Tenor

Recording

On album:

L-050(a) (Martin Lorber Collection of 78 RPM Recordings)

Track ID:

27656

Vocalist:

Birnbaum, Louis

First line:

Kh'hob gezogt un gezogt un der yid hot zayn tog,

First line (Yiddish):

כ'האָב געזאָכט און געזאָגט און דער ייִד האָט זײַן טאָג,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Columbia E3561 78 Box 006, Tape 12

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Klezmer/Tenor

Recordings

On album:

L-050(a) (Martin Lorber Collection of 78 RPM Recordings)

Track ID:

27657

Vocalist:

Birnbaum, Louis

First line:

Amerika iz a land, vi yeder...tsu makhn...

First line (Yiddish):

אַמעריקאַ איז אַ לאַנד, װי יעדער...צו מאַכן...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Columbia E3561 78 Box 006, Tape 12

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Klezmer/Tenor

On album:

006l (Birnbaum, Louis/ Shabes Farnakht Bay Dem Peyde/ Mazl Darf Men Hobn)

Track ID:

28958

Artist:

Birnbaum, Louis

On album:

052a (Birnbaum, Louis, tenor/ Shabes Farnakht Bay Dem Peyde/ Mazl Darf Men Hobn)

Track ID:

30247

Artist:

Birnbaum, Louis, tenor

Recordings

On album:

L-050(a) (Martin Lorber Collection of 78 RPM Recordings)

Track ID:

27665

Vocalist:

Weisman, G.

First line:

Vilt ir a kusher yidl zayn, reb yidl, gib gelt, gib gelt.

First line (Yiddish):

װילט איר אַ כּשר ייִדל זײַן, רבּ ייִדל, גיב געלט, גיב געלט,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Columbia E6104 78rpm

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Klezmer/Concert

On album:

P-068(g) (Der East Side Fun Amol/ Jane Peppler & Friends)

Track ID:

41507

Vocal:

Peppler, Jane

Piano:

Enoch, Aviva

First line:

Vilst a kushere yidele zayn Reb Yidl gib gelt, Reb Yidl gib gelt, a plombe af…

First line (Yiddish):

ווילסטו אַ כּשרערע ייִדל זײַן, רעבּ ייִדל גיב געלט, רעבּ ייִדל גיב געלט,...

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Concert

Length:

2:22

Recordings

On album:

L-050(a) (Martin Lorber Collection of 78 RPM Recordings)

Track ID:

27670

Vocal:

Moskowitz, Abraham — מאָסקאָוויץ, אבֿרהם

First line:

...kukt aykh nisht arum, geyt aheym, ganz aleyn,

First line (Yiddish):

..קוקט אײַך נישט אַרום, גײט אַהײם, גאַנז אַלײן, לױפֿט ניט אומעטום

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Columbia E7573 78rpm Box 2

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theatre/Humorous

On album:

002m (Moskowitz, Abraham/ Nit Di Hagode,Nur Di Kneydlekh/ Di Grine Kuzine)

Track ID:

28833

Vocal:

Moskowitz, Abraham — מאָסקאָוויץ, אבֿרהם

First line (Yiddish):

..קוקט אײַך נישט אַרום, גײט אַהײם, גאַנז אַלײן, לױפֿט ניט אומעטום

Language:

Yiddish

On album:

S-067(b) (Abe Schwartz The Klezmer King)

Track ID:

30448

Vocal:

Moskowitz, Abraham — מאָסקאָוויץ, אבֿרהם

Violin:

Schwartz, Abe — שװאַרץ, אײב

Piano:

Schwartz, Sylvia — שװאַרץ, סילװיע

First line:

S'iz shoyn tsayt…kukt aykh nisht arum, men geyt aheym ganz aleyn,

First line (Yiddish):

..קוקט אײַך נישט אַרום, גײט אַהײם, גאַנז אַלײן, לױפֿט ניט אומעטום

Track comment:

Originally recorded New York, Feb 1922 Columbia E755e

Language:

Yiddish

Length:

2:47

Recording

On album:

001o (Goldstein, Morris/ Tshepe Nit/ Der Grine Kuzine Lid)

Track ID:

28803

Vocal:

Goldstein, Morris — גאָלדשטייַן, מאָריס

First line:

Gekumen iz fun mir mayner a kuzin, vaybelekh hot er gehat a dozin,…

First line (Yiddish):

געקומען איז פֿון מיר מײַנער אַ קוזין, ווײַבעלעך האָט ער געהאַט בײַ דער דאָזין

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater

Length:

3:24

Recordings

On album:

V0063 (Abraham Luski / Pilke Fus (Video) — פּילקע פֿוס)

Track ID:

30929

Vocal:

Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם

First line:

Ikh bin, vi ir zet mikh, a litvak fun minsker gubernie. Shabos nokh shvues ver..

First line (Yiddish):

איך בין, ווי איר זעט מיך, אַ ליטוואַק פֿון מינסקער גובערניע. שבּת נאָך שבֿועת ווער..

Track comment:

Recorded under title "Pilke Fus"

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Monologue/Sketch

On album:

013b (Rosenberg, Mikhl/ Getzel At A Football Game/ A Society Shlemiel)

Track ID:

29139

Artist:

Rosenberg, Mikhl — ראָזענבערג, מיכל

Recordings

On album:

V0258 (Michael Tilson Thomas/ The Thomashefskys/ Music and Memories of the Yiddish Theater (Video))

Track ID:

36880

Artist:

New World Symphony

Conductor:

Tilson Thomas, Michael

Vocal:

Blazer, Judy

First line:

When I have been needed, badly treated, cheated, since the world began,..

Language:

English/Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Concert/Mlitant

On album:

P-068(g) (Der East Side Fun Amol/ Jane Peppler & Friends)

Track ID:

41517

Vocal/Piano:

Peppler, Jane

First line:

Khantshe iz geven amol a nomen, nor tsum shpas men hot gelakht un fun khoyshekh

First line (Yiddish):

כאַנטשע איז דעווען אַמאָל אַ נאָמען, נאָר צום שפּאַס מען האָט געלאַכט...

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Concert

Length:

4:04

Recording

On album:

V0258 (Michael Tilson Thomas/ The Thomashefskys/ Music and Memories of the Yiddish Theater (Video))

Track ID:

36885

Artist:

New World Symphony

Conductor:

Tilson Thomas, Michael

Vocal:

Blazer, Judy

Vocal:

Hensley, Shuler

Vocal:

Widmann-Levy, Ronit

Vocal:

Brancoveanu, Eugene

First line:

Amerika, a land nur fun hurry up, eyner loyft in biznes, running to your shop,

First line:

אַמעריקאַ, אַ לאַנד נור פֿון "הורי אָפּ, אײנער לױפֿט אין "בּיזנעס",

Language:

Yiddish/English

Style:

Theater/Klezmer/Concert

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

Recording

On album:

K-026(k)3 (Klezmania/Shmoozin — קלעזמאַנע)

Track ID:

42244

Vocal/Percussion:

Mrocki, Lionel

Bayan:

Breytman, David

Double Bass/Guitar:

Krycer, David

Vocal/Clarinet/Saxaphone/GuitarPercussion/Didgeridoo:

Mrocki, Lionel

First line:

Fun tvishn fremde, toyzente farbeygeyer hot a vey getoyn oyf mir a freyd, s'hot

First line (Yiddish):

פֿון צווישן פֿרעמדע, טויזנטע פֿאַרבעגייער האָט אַ וויי געטאָן אויף מיר אַ...

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Klezmer/Jazz/Concert

Length:

2:25

Recordings

On album:

G-013(c) (The Golden Land, a joyous new musical Original Cast Album)

Track ID:

9447

Vocal:

Krause, Mark and Company

Artist:

Golden Land Klezmer Orchestra

Orchestration:

Sokolow, Pete — סוקולוב, פּסח

First line:

A yunger tate, ayngeboygn, In Ellis Island, vind un vey,

First line (Yiddish):

אַ יונגער טאַטע, אײַנגעבױגן, אין עליס אײַלאַנד, װינד און װײ,

Track comment:

Sung by Aaraon Lebedoff on Album L-02(e)

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Pop/Dramatic/Pleadingly

On album:

L-002(e) (Aaron Lebedeff on 2nd. Avenue 24 Songs Hits...Yiddish Stage)

Track ID:

9448

Vocal:

Lebedeff, Aaron — לעבעדאָװ, אהרן

First line:

In Ellis Island, unter grates, shteyt an alter froy in...

First line (Yiddish):

אין עליס אײַלאַנד, אונטער גראַטעס, שטײט אַן אַלטער פֿרױ אין...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Dramatic

On album:

W-024(a) (Paved With Gold Starring Gary & Janice Waldman)

Track ID:

23677

Vocal:

Waldman, Gary

Vocal:

Waldman, Janice

Artist:

Golden Land Klezmer Orchestra

Piano/Conductor:

Delfin, Jon

First line:

A yunger tate, ayngeboygn, In Ellis Island, vind un vey,

First line:

אַ יונגער טאַטע, אײַנגעבױגן, אין עליס אײַלאַנד, װינד און װײ,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

From "Paved With Gold"

On album:

V0020 (The Yiddish King Lear (Video))

Track ID:

36063

Vocal:

Folksbiene Actors

First line:

A yunger tate, ayngegoygn, in Ellis Island, vind un vey, tsvey kinder kleyne...

First line (Yiddish):

אַ יונגער טאַטע אײַגעבוגן, אין עליס אײַלענד, ווינד און ויי, צוויי קינדער...

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Pop/Folk/Theater/Sadly

Recording

On album:

A-003(b) (Sholom Aleichem Read in Yiddish by Gustave Berger)

Track ID:

10559

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

Recordings

On album:

G-012(e) (Herts Grosbard 5 Readings from H. Leivick and Aaron Zeitlin — הערץ גראָסבאַרט 5 װאָרט קאָנצערט ה. לײװיק און אהרן צײטלין)

Track ID:

19285

Author:

Zeitlin, Aaron — צײַטלין, אַהרן

Artist:

Grosbard, Hertz — גראָסבאַרד, הערץ

First line:

Sure, bin ikh ayer lantsman, mr tseytlin, az bin avek fun..

First line:

שור, בין איך אײַער לאַנצמאַן, מיסטער צײַטלין, אַז בין אַװעק פֿון...

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