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Yiddish version of the russian song "Бублики" Beigelach Bublichki Бублички by Peisachke Burstein
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"The text accompanying this video was in Russian so here is the translation:

The initial text of song consisting of 10 stanzas is written by Odessa poet Yakov Yadov on the request of singer of topical songs Grigoriy Krasavin for the opening of the season of the Odessa Theatre of Miniatures on Lanzheronovskaya Street. On the recollections of Krasavin, this occurred in 1926. Yadov composed text in 30 minutes. Melody was borrowed by Krasavin from the popular foxtrot that caught his fancy. In the different sources the author of melody is indicated as "G. Bogomazov" or " S. Bogomazov"; however, there is the opinion that this was the foreign foxtrot.

The authorship of Yadov, besides Krasavin, the first perfomer of the song, is also testified by Constantine Paustovskiy in his fourth book “Narratives about the life”, who worked in those years with Yadov in the newspaper “Seaman”.

In the folklore tradition the song became shorter and simpler than the author's version. Odessa resident Leonid Utesov caught " Bubliki" in Leningrad (at the end of 1920s it also performed " From Odessa kichman" and "Gop-so-smykom"). In 1932(?) Utesov recorded the song on LP.

With Odessa emigrants song arrived to USA, where by the end of 1920s it was sang in Yiddish as “ Noo koyft zshe beygelakh” - and from this song began the career of the American Jewish duet “Berry sisters ”.

Supposedly, Yakov Yadov could also be the author of " Murka" and "Gop-so-smykom"; however, there is no reliable proof of this….

Yiddish Song "Moishele, Mein Friend"
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`How are you, Moishele? You were my chabber (friend) many years ago. Remember our pranks in kheyder (religious school), and the Rebe with his stick? And how are all our other friends from these days? How often I think of them: Samele, Josele, Awremele... your sister Rochele, who was the love of Berele and hated me without reason and left me with a never healed wound in my soul. I dreamed of us as children, that I was again amidst you. But we're old Jews now...'

old yiddish film , Tuvia the Milkman

My Yiddishe Mama
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Leo Fuld.He was born Lazarus Fuld in Rotterdam in 1912 and started out in the synagogue choir; at 16, he was leading services, while at night he was singing secular songs in Rotterdam's Cafe de Kool. In 1932, still only 19, he came to Britain to audition for the BBC, where he was noticed by bandleader Jack Hylton and became a radio star. Seven years later, he left for the US where he established a career as a singer of Yiddish songs, performing with Frank Sinatra. When he returned to Rotterdam after the war, his entire family - with the exception of one sister - had died in the Holocaust. In 1948, he wrote Tell Me Where Shall I Go, which became a worldwide hit.

Fuld's career had three phases, El Fers says: the British one, the American one and the French one. In the latter, he performed with Edith Piaf and is said to have discovered Charles Aznavour. In the 1950s, he began to develop an Arab audience and toured the Arab world, still performing Yiddish songs. Then he moved to Las Vegas, but in 1992, at the age of 80, his career more or less over, he returned to the Netherlands.

Leo Fuld was the last performer of the Yiddish popular ballads, who´s career started well before the 2nd World War and ended short before his death in 1997. In 1938 he hit Broadway and recorded and performed with well-known artists like Frank Sinatra or Edith Piaf. Just a few moths befor his death he performed with the Algerian rockgroup Railand and recorded ´The Legend´.

Never before Yiddish music sounded so oriental as on The Legend, produced by Mohamed el-Fers and arranged by Kees Post. The Legend was so refreshing after decades of being earnest and very serious about the almost lost heritage of Yiddish music.

El Fers got Fuld working again: "He went on national television with these very young Algerian musicians and in front of an audience of young Moroccans, and they loved him. I have no idea what was the magic between them. Normally, they're very against Jews and shout about the Palestinians, but the audience wouldn't let him go."

The fusion of the heartfelt sounds of Yiddish and the Arab Middle East resonate still in Leo Fuld's work. People loved him because he sang from the heart. No more wandering for him.

How did they take to Tell Me Where Shall I Go, I asked him? "We were clever," he said, "and we never played that song." Fuld didn't mind: "If he could play, he would play." The song was not performed until El Fers got Fuld together with an arranger, and in 1997 they recorded The Legend.

Suddenly, Fuld was a star again. Sony gave him a contract, and he was taken to meet the Dutch royal family. Sadly, however, he died a few months after the release of The Legend, aged 84.
Her Royal Highness Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was extremely happy that the King of Yiddish music presented her a few months before his death his last recording. During his last television-show, Yiddish singer Fuld was accompanied by the Algerian musicgroup Railand.

Arranger Kees Post has treated Fuld's songs to striking new arrangements -- tight swathes of Oriental violin, eerie and sinuous woodwinds and accordions, and sombre double bass -- which bring out the pathos but not the sentimentality of Fuld's light but world-weary voice and provide considerable drama

During World War II, while Fuld was living in the U.S., he lost nearly his entire family. Until his death he was not able to discuss that topic with his remaining sister and nieces. In his simple apartment in Amsterdam, the singer was still writing songs and felt all but lonely: "I never get tired of my own company." In the last year of his life, at the age of 84 he recorded what is considered the Sgt. Pepper of Yiddish Music: The Legend. History is understood, more fully comprehended, through the pearls of Yiddish music as sung by the truly great interpreter of the genre: Lazarus AKA Leo Fuld (1912-1997).

MY YIDDISHE MAMA LIVE TOM JONES RARE RECORDING

This is a live recording of tom Jones singing MY YIDDISHE MAMA my yiddishe momme gypsy michael lee robert adams singing sam johnny ugly bones boys music song Gypsy Wendy's Commercial funny crack up...

La Yiddishe Mama

http://www.Myzeidi.com Charles Aznavour (Armenian: Շառլ Ազնավուր; born Shahnourh Varinag Aznavourian, Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրյան, May 22, 1924...

A documentary movie: Jewish Life in Kovno (Lithuania), Riga (Latvija) and Lwów (Poland) in 1939

NOTE: This documentary movie was made by anonymous author, who shortly before outbreak of the Second World War, so in early spring 1939 (we can see it from the weather and the way people are dressed) travelled probably as a tourist, from the capital of Lithuania (Kovno) and via Latvija (its capital, Riga) down to south-east Poland (Lwow, then belonging to Poland; now in Ukraine). It's a real gem, rarest of the rarest - the last portrait of the East European Slavonic-Jewish world, that in pass of a few months later, was annihilated by the Teutonic aggression on Poland, in September 1939.

In my estimation first 3 minutes are: Kovno (Lithuania) and Riga (Latvija) . Poland (Lwow) begins around 4:50. I am guessing only by the view of people's outfits, street signs and posters.

The music background are: 1.Belle Baker, Bei mir bist du schoen (1937) followed by 2.: Bublitschki, played by Ziggy Elman Band (1938) 3. Tango „Bajka" (A Fairytale) (Music Izaac Kranz, aka Igo Kranowski) played by Wiktor Tychowski's Band (1932; also available in You Tube, sung by Mieczysław Fogg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vatjGx... 4. Abe Schwartz's Orchestra: "Dem Pastekh Kholem" (The Shepherd's Dream, 1929 - fragment)

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Jewish Life in Song This is a page where I will add interesting songs, videos and interesting material Songs/Videos are mixed on the page:
Menu Beigelach Bublichki Moishele, Mein Friend Yidl Mitn Fidl- a yiddish song, a yiddish film Poland 1936 Pesach Burstein - Sonny Boy, Polish Shtetl, Columbia 1928 old yiddish film , Tuvia the Milkman Kol Nidry: 1939 Yiddish film "Overture To Glory" Max Bruchs Kol Nidry: Chamber Orchestra	Avinu Malkeinu Barbra Streisand Avinu Malkeinu "The Moscow Oratorio Society"/ Moscow Male Jewish Cappella SHALOM ALEHEM My Yiddishe Mama Leo Fuld Sophie Tucker Tom Jones Charles Aznavour Ivan Rebroff A documentary movie: Jewish Life in Kovno (Lithuania), Riga (Latvija) and Lwów (Poland) in 1939
	Yiddish version of the russian song "Бублики" Beigelach Bublichki Бублички by Peisachke Burstein http://www.Myzeidi.com "The text accompanying this video was in Russian so here is the translation: The initial text of song consisting of 10 stanzas is written by Odessa poet Yakov Yadov on the request of singer of topical songs Grigoriy Krasavin for the opening of the season of the Odessa Theatre of Miniatures on Lanzheronovskaya Street. On the recollections of Krasavin, this occurred in 1926. Yadov composed text in 30 minutes. Melody was borrowed by Krasavin from the popular foxtrot that caught his fancy. In the different sources the author of melody is indicated as "G. Bogomazov" or " S. Bogomazov"; however, there is the opinion that this was the foreign foxtrot. The authorship of Yadov, besides Krasavin, the first perfomer of the song, is also testified by Constantine Paustovskiy in his fourth book “Narratives about the life”, who worked in those years with Yadov in the newspaper “Seaman”. In the folklore tradition the song became shorter and simpler than the author's version. Odessa resident Leonid Utesov caught " Bubliki" in Leningrad (at the end of 1920s it also performed " From Odessa kichman" and "Gop-so-smykom"). In 1932(?) Utesov recorded the song on LP. With Odessa emigrants song arrived to USA, where by the end of 1920s it was sang in Yiddish as “ Noo koyft zshe beygelakh” - and from this song began the career of the American Jewish duet “Berry sisters ”. Supposedly, Yakov Yadov could also be the author of " Murka" and "Gop-so-smykom"; however, there is no reliable proof of this….
	Yiddish Song "Moishele, Mein Friend" http://www.Myzeidi.com `How are you, Moishele? You were my chabber (friend) many years ago. Remember our pranks in kheyder (religious school), and the Rebe with his stick? And how are all our other friends from these days? How often I think of them: Samele, Josele, Awremele... your sister Rochele, who was the love of Berele and hated me without reason and left me with a never healed wound in my soul. I dreamed of us as children, that I was again amidst you. But we're old Jews now...'
	Yidl Mitn Fidl- a yiddish song, a yiddish film Classic yiddish film starring Molly Picon. Filmed in Poland in 1936.¨ "Director Green returned to his native Poland from America to produce this film, the most commercially successful musical in the history of the Yiddish cinema, starring Molly Picon, consummate comedienne of Yiddish theater, vaudeville, and film. This is the classic folk comedy about a man and his daughter who, penniless, decide to become traveling musicians. The daughter disguises herself as a boy to relieve her father's anxiety about unforeseeable problems that could befall a young woman "out in the world." They then join together with "another" father-son duo for music, comedy and romance. Green's original screenplay was enhanced by the folksy lyrics of Yiddish poet Itzik Manger and the memorable musical score of Abraham Ellstein, as well as the talents of Leon Leibold, the romantic lead who later starred in The Dybbuk and Tevye, and Max Bozyk, a character actor par excellence. Breaking away from the studio-bound cinematography of the early Yiddish talkies, the film was shot on location in the picturesque town of Kazimierz and nearby Warsaw. With shtetl inhabitants as extras, the film captures the vitality and invincible spirit of traditional small town Jewish life. " (source Imdb.com) Directed by Joseph Green Jan Nowina-Przybylski Writing credits (in alphabetical order) Joseph Green Konrad Tom novella Molly Picon ... Itke aka Yiddle Leon Liebgold ... Froim Kalamutker, the fiddler Simche Fostel ... Arye, Itke's father Max Bozyk ... Isaac 'Ajzyk' Kalamutker Dora Fakiel ... Taibele Lepski (as D. Fakiel) Chana Lewin ... The Widow Symche Natan ... R. Singer, theater manager Samuel Landau ... Saul Gold rest of cast listed alphabetically: Max Brin ... Marszelik Basia Liebgold ... Taibele's mother (uncredited) Produced by Joseph Green .... producer Jacob Kalich .... producer Original Music by Abe Ellstein Abraham Ellstein Cinematography by Jack Jonilowicz Seweryn Steinwurzel Production Design by Jacek Weinreich Art Direction by Jacob Kalich Czeslaw Piaskowski (uncredited) Production Management Józef Frankfurt .... production manager Edward Hantower .... production manager (as Edward Hantowicz
	Pesach Burstein - Sonny Boy, Polish Shtetl, Columbia 1928
	old yiddish film , Tuvia the Milkman Category: Film & Animation
Moishe Oysher sings "Kol Nidre" - 1939 Yiddish film	From the 1939 Yiddish film "Overture To Glory" (Der Vilner Shtot Khazn "The Vilnius City Cantor"). Questionably described by Hal Erikson in his "All Movie Guide" as "one of the last Yiddish-language films produced in the United States" (and the first American film of German director Max Nosseck) Overture to Glory stars the great musical performer and Cantor, Moishe Oysher. Starring Helen Beverly and Florence Weiss (Oysher's wife), with a musical score by Alexander Oshanetsky, Oysher is the "Vilner Balabesl", a cantor in Vilnius, with a renowned voice. Two men come from the Warsaw Opera to hear him sing in the Rosh Hashanah service and are so impressed that they introduce him to European classical music and to reading sheet music; they convince him, against the wishes of much of his family (and especially his father-in-law) to become an opera singer in Warsaw. He leaves his job as the Vilnius cantor, and seems at first to be on the path to fame and fortune as an opera star in Warsaw, when the news arrives that his son has died. Grief-stricken, he stumbles over the aria he is supposed to sing, starting instead into a lullaby he used to sing to his son. In disgrace, he also loses his voice; he tries to return to his life in Vilna; finally, his voice comes briefly back to him on Yom Kippur. He sings the first few lines of the "Kol Nidre", then dies of a heart attack. Reviews: "...one of the major events of the Jewish cinema... Moishe Oysher's voice is truly magnificent...." The New York Post "The entire film is done with exquisite restraint... Moishe Oysher's acting and singing are excellent... the music is magnificent, the finest that Alexander Olshanetsky has ever written... truly an artstic and beautiful triumph of the Yiddish cinema...." William Edline, The Day (Der Tag) "Seldom has the Jewish faith been more nobly and beautifully espoused as it is in this film.... A milestone in the course of Yiddish film making." Robert W. Dana, The New York Herald Tribune
Max Bruch - Kol Nidrei	This is the famous work by Max Bruch and is the version for an octet of violoncellos and soloist. Filmed live in the Auditório do Institute Goethe http://www.goethe.de/INS/BR/POA/acv/mus/2007/pt2352557v.htm Célebre obra de Max Bruch em versão para octeto de violoncelos e solista. Gravado ao vivo no Auditório do Instituto Goethe (Porto Alegre). Performance da "Orquestra de Violoncelos Jaqueline du Pré" (formada por alunos e professores do "IX Encontro de Violoncelos de Porto Alegre"). 13 de julho de 2007. Solista: Laura Mac-Knight
	Avinu Malkeinu HIGHER GROUND" (C) 1997 ★ Barbara Streisand An array of images representing Jewish, Muslim and Christian Prayer, Pointing to the idea that G-d is One and The Same for all of us... --- Our Father Our King Hear our prayer We have sinned before... Not the version I was brought up with but pleasant anyway, CC
	Jewish Songs -- Live in DK MELZ Moscow, June 08, 2008 Conductor - Alexander Tsaliuk, "The Moscow Oratorio Society" Moscow Male Jewish Cappella Musica Viva Academic Chamber Orchestra (artistic leader Alexander Rudin) Arranged by Igor Gorsky 1. Hatikvah - National Israeli Anthem 2. She-he-Heyonu Solo - Georgiy Faradzhev 3. Avinu Malkeynu Solo - Gia Beshitaishvily 4. Havdoloh Solo - Georgiy Faradzhev 5. Niggun of Jerusalem Solo - Gia Beshitaishvily 6. Ten Shabbat Solo - Gia Beshitaishvily Conductor and Artistic Leader: Alexander Tsaliuk Soloists: Georgy Faradzhev - Tenor, Giya Beshitaishvili - Tenor, Alexander Velikovskiy - Piano Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Alexander Burtman Video - Recorded, Edited and Mastered by Sergey Savich
SHALOM ALEHEM (Yom Kippur War 35 years ago )	Yom Kippur War 35 Years ago today 05 October 2008 was fought from October 6 to October 26, 1973 by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel. The war began with a surprise joint attack by Egypt and Syria on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. Egypt and Syria crossed the cease-fire lines in the Sinai and Golan Heights, respectively, which had been captured by Israel in 1967 during the Six-Day War. The Yom Kippur War started with a surprise Arab attack on Israel on Saturday 6th October 1973. On this day, Egyptian and Syrian military forces launched an attack knowing that the military of Israel would be participating in the religious celebrations associated with Yom Kippur. Therefore, their guard would temporarily be dropped. The combined forces of Egypt and Syria totalled the same number of men as NATO had in Western Europe. On the Golan Heights alone, 150 Israeli tanks faced 1,400 Syria tanks and in the Suez region just 500 Israeli soldiers faced 80,000 Egyptian soldiers. Other Arab nations aided the Egyptians and Syrians. Iraq transferred a squadron of Hunter jet fighter planes to Egypt a few months before the war began. Iraqi Russian-built MIG fighters were used against the Israelis in the Golan Heights along with 18,000 Iraqi soldiers. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait effectively financed the war from the Arabs side. Saudi troops approximately 3,000 men - also fought in the war. Libya provided Egypt with French-built Mirage fighters and in the years 1971 to 1973, Libya bankrolled Egypts military modernisation to the tune of $1 billion which was used to purchase modern Russian weapons. Other Arabic nations that helped the Egyptians and Syrians included Tunisia, Sudan and Morocco. Jordan also sent two armoured brigades and three artillery units to support the Syrians, but their participation in the war was not done with vast enthusiasm probably because King Hussein of Jordan had not been kept informed of what Egypt and Syria planned. The Egyptians and Syrians advanced during the first 24-48 hours, after which momentum began to swing in Israel's favor. By the second week of the war, the Syrians had been pushed out of the Golan Heights. In the Sinai to the south, the Israelis struck at the seam between two invading Egyptian armies, crossed the Suez Canal (where the old ceasefire line had been), and cut off the Egyptian Third Army just as a United Nations cease-fire came into effect. In 1973, the Arab-dominated Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said it would cut oil exports to the United States and other nations that provided military aid to Israel in the Yom Kippur War of October 1973. A full oil embargo hit the United States in December causing a serious energy crisis.


My YIDDISHE MAMA by Leo Fuld (Rare Extra Oriental Version)	My Yiddishe Mama http://www.Myzeidi.com Leo Fuld.He was born Lazarus Fuld in Rotterdam in 1912 and started out in the synagogue choir; at 16, he was leading services, while at night he was singing secular songs in Rotterdam's Cafe de Kool. In 1932, still only 19, he came to Britain to audition for the BBC, where he was noticed by bandleader Jack Hylton and became a radio star. Seven years later, he left for the US where he established a career as a singer of Yiddish songs, performing with Frank Sinatra. When he returned to Rotterdam after the war, his entire family - with the exception of one sister - had died in the Holocaust. In 1948, he wrote Tell Me Where Shall I Go, which became a worldwide hit. Fuld's career had three phases, El Fers says: the British one, the American one and the French one. In the latter, he performed with Edith Piaf and is said to have discovered Charles Aznavour. In the 1950s, he began to develop an Arab audience and toured the Arab world, still performing Yiddish songs. Then he moved to Las Vegas, but in 1992, at the age of 80, his career more or less over, he returned to the Netherlands. Leo Fuld was the last performer of the Yiddish popular ballads, who´s career started well before the 2nd World War and ended short before his death in 1997. In 1938 he hit Broadway and recorded and performed with well-known artists like Frank Sinatra or Edith Piaf. Just a few moths befor his death he performed with the Algerian rockgroup Railand and recorded ´The Legend´. Never before Yiddish music sounded so oriental as on The Legend, produced by Mohamed el-Fers and arranged by Kees Post. The Legend was so refreshing after decades of being earnest and very serious about the almost lost heritage of Yiddish music. El Fers got Fuld working again: "He went on national television with these very young Algerian musicians and in front of an audience of young Moroccans, and they loved him. I have no idea what was the magic between them. Normally, they're very against Jews and shout about the Palestinians, but the audience wouldn't let him go." The fusion of the heartfelt sounds of Yiddish and the Arab Middle East resonate still in Leo Fuld's work. People loved him because he sang from the heart. No more wandering for him. How did they take to Tell Me Where Shall I Go, I asked him? "We were clever," he said, "and we never played that song." Fuld didn't mind: "If he could play, he would play." The song was not performed until El Fers got Fuld together with an arranger, and in 1997 they recorded The Legend. Suddenly, Fuld was a star again. Sony gave him a contract, and he was taken to meet the Dutch royal family. Sadly, however, he died a few months after the release of The Legend, aged 84. Her Royal Highness Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was extremely happy that the King of Yiddish music presented her a few months before his death his last recording. During his last television-show, Yiddish singer Fuld was accompanied by the Algerian musicgroup Railand. Arranger Kees Post has treated Fuld's songs to striking new arrangements -- tight swathes of Oriental violin, eerie and sinuous woodwinds and accordions, and sombre double bass -- which bring out the pathos but not the sentimentality of Fuld's light but world-weary voice and provide considerable drama During World War II, while Fuld was living in the U.S., he lost nearly his entire family. Until his death he was not able to discuss that topic with his remaining sister and nieces. In his simple apartment in Amsterdam, the singer was still writing songs and felt all but lonely: "I never get tired of my own company." In the last year of his life, at the age of 84 he recorded what is considered the Sgt. Pepper of Yiddish Music: The Legend. History is understood, more fully comprehended, through the pearls of Yiddish music as sung by the truly great interpreter of the genre: Lazarus AKA Leo Fuld (1912-1997).
	My Yiddishe Mama by Sophie Tucker My Yiddishe Mama ..."Sophie Tucker began singing "My Yiddishe Mama" in 1925, after the death of her own mother...."
	MY YIDDISHE MAMA LIVE TOM JONES RARE RECORDING This is a live recording of tom Jones singing MY YIDDISHE MAMA my yiddishe momme gypsy michael lee robert adams singing sam johnny ugly bones boys music song Gypsy Wendy's Commercial funny crack up...
	La Yiddishe Mama http://www.Myzeidi.com Charles Aznavour (Armenian: Շառլ Ազնավուր; born Shahnourh Varinag Aznavourian, Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրյան, May 22, 1924...
	My Yiddishe Mome Ivan Rebroff, born as Hans-Rolf Rippert, (31 July 1931 in Berlin, Germany -- 27 February 2008 in Frankfurt), was a German singer, allegedly of Russian ancestry, with an extraordinary vocal range of four and a half octaves, ranging from the soprano to impressive bass registers. Rebroff was famous for singing Russian folk songs, but also performed opera, light classics and folk songs from many other countries. He was known on stage for his gusto. Rebroff described himself as international, the "connection between East and West". He lived on the Sporade Island of Skopelos, Greece. He performed over 6,000 concerts in his career, including a two-year seven-day-a-week stint at the French opera, singing, among other greats, Fiddler on the Roof. Being well into his seventies in a recent Australian tour, Rebroff still performed 12 shows in 14 days. Feb 28, 2008 BERLIN (AFP) — German singer Ivan Rebroff, who was known around the world for popularising Russian songs, has died at the age of 76 in Frankfurt after a long illness, his agents said Thursday. Born Hans-Rolf Rippert in Berlin in 1931, Rebroff became renowned for his vocal range of four and half octaves and sang opera, light classics and folk. He was of Russian origin and played up his roots in his costumes and choice of material, which included Russian standards like "Kalinka" and "Midnight in Moscow". Rebroff first shot to fame in 1968 when he starred as Tevjo in the musical "Fiddler On The Roof" in Paris. The show ran for two years and his agent said he sang the role 1,476 times in his career. He performed his last concert in Vienna on December before retiring for health reasons
	Michail Shufutinskiy "Играл Cкрипач" "The Fiddler Played" Mischa Shufutinskiy is one of my favourite Russian singers of life. You don't have to know what he says as his voice is so full of pathos and feeling. As a mainly Russian household we listen to him quite often. Here we see the paintings of Shtetls and of Marc Chagall's paintings of Shtetl life in Russia.I visited a wonderful exhibition of Chagall in Moscow back in 1991 when I had a faxctory there making dance shoes. Although settled in Israel he was loved in Russia. When I took my wife Svetlana to Paris for the first time the first thing she wanted to see was the famous ceiling in the Paris Opera painted by Chagall.. There was an avant garde ballet on that day so we boufght tickets for that and saw the ceiling. The ballet was crap but the building was wonderful.Back in the 1980s I had supplied shoes to the Paris Opera when Nureyev was the artistic Director and while he often threw shoes at me when they did not fit him , most of the other dancers loved my shoes. Nureyev was ok as he had been wearing my companies shoes almost since he had defected and knew us well. .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1HsjR6TZZw	A documentary movie: Jewish Life in Kovno (Lithuania), Riga (Latvija) and Lwów (Poland) in 1939 NOTE: This documentary movie was made by anonymous author, who shortly before outbreak of the Second World War, so in early spring 1939 (we can see it from the weather and the way people are dressed) travelled probably as a tourist, from the capital of Lithuania (Kovno) and via Latvija (its capital, Riga) down to south-east Poland (Lwow, then belonging to Poland; now in Ukraine). It's a real gem, rarest of the rarest - the last portrait of the East European Slavonic-Jewish world, that in pass of a few months later, was annihilated by the Teutonic aggression on Poland, in September 1939. In my estimation first 3 minutes are: Kovno (Lithuania) and Riga (Latvija) . Poland (Lwow) begins around 4:50. I am guessing only by the view of people's outfits, street signs and posters. The music background are: 1.Belle Baker, Bei mir bist du schoen (1937) followed by 2.: Bublitschki, played by Ziggy Elman Band (1938) 3. Tango „Bajka" (A Fairytale) (Music Izaac Kranz, aka Igo Kranowski) played by Wiktor Tychowski's Band (1932; also available in You Tube, sung by Mieczysław Fogg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vatjGx... 4. Abe Schwartz's Orchestra: "Dem Pastekh Kholem" (The Shepherd's Dream, 1929 - fragment)

Pesach Burstein - Sonny Boy, Polish Shtetl, Columbia 1928

SHALOM ALEHEM (Yom Kippur War 35 years ago )