When the Rabbi Danced: Songs of Jewish Life from the Shtetl to the Resistance

When the Rabbi Danced: Songs of Jewish Life from the Shtetl to the Resistance

When the Rabbi Danced: Songs of Jewish Life from the Shtetl to the Resistance
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-06-29
Music Label: Albany Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Un Az Der Rebe Zingt
  2. Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen
  3. Partizaner-libe
  4. Chassidisch
  5. Bachuri Le'an Tisa
  6. Tavo-u El Ha'arets
  7. A Geneyve
  8. Sha Shtil
  9. Der Rebe Elimelekh
  10. Dortn, Dortn
  11. Tumbalalayka
  12. Du Zolst Nit Geyn
  13. Troyer Past Nisht Unzer Ponim
  14. Eliahu Hanavi
  15. Nit Ayer Mazl
  16. Yome, Yome
  17. Di Mezinke
  18. S'Brent
  19. Hala Yarden
  20. A Gib Zhe Khaver
  21. S'Dremlen Feygl
  22. Tsum Besern Morgn
  23. Shtil Di Nakht
  24. Yiddishe Brigades
  25. Zog Nit Keynmol

Music reviews of When the Rabbi Danced: Songs of Jewish Life from the Shtetl to the Resistance

Music Review: When the Rabbi danced
Rating: 5 Stars

This wonderfully performed collection of familiar songs from the once vibrant Yiddish culture of Eastern Europe is a great addition to my music library. While many of the songs are classics which I remember well from my childhood, the sweetness and elegance of the presentation by Counterpoint add significantly to their impact. Even though most of the European Jewish community was destroyed in the holocaust, these wonderful melodies survived to inspire us today, and to remind us that all was not lost. The arrangements, harmonies and solos are marvelous, and the Yiddish and Hebrew pronunciation are flawless.
It's obvious that a lot of work by some very talented people went into creating this album. Listening to it brings back many bittersweet memories that stir my emotions - It is my sincere hope that Counterpoint will continue to perform such music in the years to come.
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Description of When the Rabbi Danced: Songs of Jewish Life from the Shtetl to the Resistance

You might still hear Yiddish songs today, in concert or at social gatherings of Yiddish speakers. But their natural venue was the village or shtetl of Eastern Europe or America where you could hear them through open windows in courtyards, or from busy people humming their way from place to place. They were born and flourished in a world that is no more. They represent the joys and sorrows, dreams and aspirations of ordinary folk, the Jewish mother?s dreams for her child, the poverty of the rebbe, the Jewish teacher, the freshness of young love and revolution, the joy of Jewish holidays which provided a welcome respite from the drudgery and hardships of daily life for Eastern European Jewery. Yiddish song reflects the richness of Jewish folklore, as old, vast and varied as the numerous regions which the thousand-year-old language and culture inhabited. It reached its greatest artistic expression in the latter half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. There are songs of work, love and lullabies; songs about great Jewish heroes and parodies about the same, songs about Hassidic rabbis, pogroms, the Messiah, the longing for redemption and the return to Zion, and of revolution. Political parodies abounded in the 20th century as did Yiddish theater songs in various genres: operetta, art song and Vaudeville. There were writers, poets and musicians throughout the ages who created this treasure trove, much of it still waiting to be culled. The Yiddish street singer was a common sight in the cities and towns of Eastern Europe, well into the 20th century. The broder zinger from Galicia heralded in an age of Yiddish folksong creativity that reached every continent on which Jews lived in the 19th and 20th centuries. The poet Itzik Manger and, of course, Mordechai Gibertig, the most famous and popular of the Yiddish folk-poets, were heirs of that tradition. Gibertig "S?Brent," a vision of burning cities and a call to arms, written in 1938, proved to be all too prophetic. During World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews were confined in ghettos across German occupied Eastern Europe. In the ghettos and even concentration camps, members of the terrorized Jewish population engaged in remarkable, organized acts of defiance. Determined to leave a record of their history for posterity, they secretly created archives, diaries, drawings, photographs and songs to document Nazi crimes against their communities. During the same period many European Jews defied their Nazi oppressors by actively taking part in an underground war of resistance. This partisan warfare, carried out by clandestine, irregular forces operating inside enemy territory, was particularly widespread in the dense forests and nearly impassable marshlands of Eastern Europe. In 1942, the Supreme Partisan Headquarters in the Soviet Union extended its authority over the majority of partisan units in Eastern Europe and young Jewish fighters who escaped the ghettos joined the Russian partisans. Jewish partisan units were established in 1943, and the Yiddish language was now used for military communication, as well as for cultural and folkloric expression, such as poetry and song. This is a delightful album, full of energy and wit. The singing is magnificent and infectious. The CD booklet contains full texts of each song in English.

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