The Mendele Review: Yiddish Literature and Language
(A Companion to MENDELE)
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Contents of Vol. 12.002 [Sequential No. 193]
Date: 24 January 2008
Yiddish Keren
Hayesod Brochure of
1) This issue of TMR (ed).
2) Robert Goldenberg on Cantor Louis Danto's Goldfadn songs
3) Kheyfe
un ir hinterland ('Haifa and Its Hinterland')
4) An algemeyner bild fun der shtot ('General Picture of
the City')
5) Dertsiyung/Hadar
HaKarmel/Har HaKarmel
('Education…Mt.Carmel')
6) Andere fiertlen
[kvartaln]/Handl…('Other
Neighborhoods, Commerce')
7) Mir boyen ('We are building')
8) Di alte shprakh…di naye shul…Daytshe yidn ('Old Language'…'New
School' … 'German Jews')
9) Postcard photo of Yafo [Jaffa] St. in the 1930s.
10) Photo of
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Date: 24 January 2008
From: ed.
Subject: This
issue of TMR
*** Robert Goldenberg on Cantor Louis Danto's Goldfadn
Songs *** A Yiddish Keren Hayesod Brochure of
Given a rapidly growing economy supported by a deep-water port,
It is of course ironic that the very language which brought many to Zionism was itself treated rather shabbily in
Palestine in the 1930s and later. However, providing new immigrants with
materials in their own language has been the policy of official bodies in
Palestine/Israel and in the Diaspora to this day. Yiddish has more or less
disappeared from this material because few of the recent new immigrants are
primary Yiddish-speakers.
Many thanks to Eli Roman for permission to publish the photos of
Herzl and Jaffa Streets (the latter from Kheyfe;
Biton ha-Amuta le-Toldot Kheyfa 4 [Nov 2006],
p. 2).
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Date: 24 January 2008
From: Robert Goldenberg
Subject: Cantor Danto's Goldfadn Songs
This year we
celebrate the Avrom Goldfadn
[Abraham Goldfaden] Centenary and articles on the founder of the modern Yiddish theatre will appear in a great
many publications, including our own Yiddish Theatre Forum.
Here we give the link to Louis Danto's recordings of Goldfadn
songs from his album "Gems of the Jewish Operetta (Cadenza LRCD108). See Danto's
Jewish Music Archives website. The
eight Goldfadn songs among the twenty in the album
are: "Shabes, yontef
un roysh-khoydesh" from Shulamis;
"Di yidishe hofenung";
"Drey zikh milekhl," from Bar Kokhbe;
"Rozhinkes mit mandlen," from Shulamis;
"Faryomert, farklogt,"
from Doktor Almasada;
"Elnt bin ikh,"
from Di tsoyberin; "Dos blindn shpil," from Di
tsoyberin; "Di Shvue," from Shulamis.
Goldfadn songs, with the exception of "Rozhinkes mit mandlen,"
especially from his operas, are art songs, and I have never heard them
sung otherwise. In fact, they are seldom sung, or at least recorded, at all
nowadays. Aside from Cantor Danto, I have seen only two other Goldfadn recordings on LP or CD: one by Richard Tucker
(also operatic, of course), and a choral collection from the National Yiddish
Theatre of Romania. The latter two were released in the 1950s. The only other
individual recordings of Goldfadn that I have come
across are old 78s from the 1920s, from the heyday of Yiddish theatre in
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Date: 24 January 2008
From: ed.
Subject: Kheyfe un ir
hinterland ('
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Date:
24 January 2008
From:
ed.
Subject:
An algemeyner bild fun der shtot ('General Picture of
the City')
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Date:
24 January 2008
From:
ed.
Subject: Dertsiyung/Hadar HaKarmel/Har HaKarmel
('Education…
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Date:
24 January 2008
From:
ed.
Subject:
Andere fiertlen[kvartaln]/Handl…('Other
Neighborhoods, Commerce')
Click on picture to enlarge
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Date: 24 January 2008
From: ed.
Subject: Mir boyen
('We are building')
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Date: 24 January 2008
From: ed.
Subject: Di alte shprakh…di naye shul…Daytshe yidn ('Old Language'…'New
School' … 'German Jews')
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Date: 24 January 2008
From: Eli Roman
Subject: Postcard photo of Yafo [
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Date: 24 January 2008
From: Eli Roman
Subject: Photo of
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