A Mazeldiker Yid

Editorial Review:

This recording developed over a period of several years, during which Di Naye Kapelye have continued scrambling around East Europe looking for conrtexts and traces of Jewish music, a good half century after the Holocaust nearly destroyed Europe's Jewish population and culture.

There are still Jewish communities in East Europe and in the memories of this aging population lives a sense of Jewish culture - Yiddishkeit - that developed strong local expressions of faith and music. Furthermore, the memory of Jewish culture is often maintained by non-Jews, those who choose to cherish the legacy of neighbors lost but not forgotten.

Recorded in Budapest August 2001 includes a 20 paged booklet with text in English, French and German.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

An absolutely wonderful collection!:

If you have ever dreamed of returning to the old Eastern European communities of your great grandfathers and grandmothers, wishing you could go back in time and listen in to the songs of joy, of lament, of preserved identity, while watching the people go about their uniquely Jewish way of life, this CD will take you a step closer. I know because it did this for me.
I was on a trip to Eastern Europe to visit the old sites and to collect and play Jewish and other Eastern European folk music, the music... more info

One of the best Yiddish CDs of 2002!:

I saw this group - Di Naye Kapelye at the 2002 Ashkenaz festival in Toronto, and I have to say, that I was impressed. They are full of energy, and, play some of the most 'authentic' Yiddish and Klezmer music around. The group's founder, Bob Cohen, found most of the material for this album by conducting research throughout Eastern and Central Europe, and it truly paid off. This is a great CD.

Tracks:

1. Drey Dreydele
2. Meron Tune (Shaffer's Nign)
3. Oyvey Rebbenyu
4. 999 / Yom ha-Shabbes
5. Spoken Introduction by Betty Tzarevkan Cohen
6. Platch Evrei
7. Goldenshteyn's Bulgar
8. Jidancutsa and Zsido Tanc
9. A Mazeldiker Yid (A Lucky Jew)
10. S'iz Shoyn Farfaln / Grichisher Tantz
11. Wedding Processional
12. Goldblatt's Freylakhs
13. Yearning Tune
14. Borey Olam (vocal version)
15. Borey Olam be-Kinyan
16. Jewish Hora / Buhusher Chusid

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