Tracks
Lena From Palestina
- Also known as:
- Palesteena
- Author:
- Conrad, Con
- Author:
- Robinson, J. Russel
- Composer:
- Conrad, Con
- Composer:
- Conrad, Con
- Composer:
- Robinson, J. Russel
- Composer:
- Robinson, J. Russel
- Genre:
- Theatre/Vaudville/Dixieland/Jazz/Novelty
- Subject:
- Lena/Fat Lady/Palestine/Courting/Concertina/Arab
- Additional song notes:
- Same melody for entries titled "Chaim Popukal", "Unter Belzer -
Himlen", "Gereist Un Getroffen", and "Nokh A Bisl".
- Related information in folder 584:
- Comments:
- 1. Article by Charles A. Kennedy (Professor of Religion, Emeritus, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University). Titled, "When Palestine Played the Palace: Vaudeville Interprets the Balfour Declaration".
Includes texts of novelty songs, Zionist songs, (all set in the Middle East), including text of "Lena From Palestina"
2. Article by Itzik Gottesman in Yiddish Forward of March 19-25, 2010, tiitled "Oyf Di Shpurn fun Lena Fun Palestina (on the track of Lena fun Palestina).
- On album:
- K-085(a) (Klezmorim Sher Terkish)
- Track ID:
- 27109
- Artist:
- Jasnitz, Ofar & Klezmorim Sher
- First line:
- In da Bronx of New York city, lives a girl, she's not so...
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Dixieland/New Orleans/Vaudville