Jewish Music Web Center Announcements

The Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theater

Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Librarian, Dorot Jewish Division, New York Public Library, presents
Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theater

Broder singers were the first Yiddish performers to present music and drama in a secular setting beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. This lecture will explore the Broder singers’ history, repertoire, and style, and their relationship to Yiddish theater.

JOSEPH KREMEN MEMORIAL LECTURE • MAX WEINREICH CENTER ACADEMIC LECTURE SERIES
Admission: Free
RSVP: www.yivo.org/reservations
Venue: YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History | 15 West 16th Street - NYC

A Community Experience to Uplift Your Soul with neshama Carlebach

A Community Experience to Uplift Your Soul Neshama Carlebach performing with Reverend Roger Hambrick & the Green Pastures Baptist Choir
WHEN:
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 8:00 pm - Doors Open at 7:00 pm
WHERE:
The Parker Playhouse - 707 NE 8th Street, Fort Lauderdale,
Florida 33304 - 954-462-0222

ADMISSION:
$26.50, $46.50, $66.50 - Special VIP Meet & Greet $101.50
Tickets available at the Parker Playhouse Box Office and online. There is a 10% discount for group sales over 20 people available at the box office and a 5% early bird special for advanced sales before January 25th.

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Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio at the Kennedy Center

Video from the Kennedy Center concert:
http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M4915

Concert de Mashke aux Trois Arts

Concert de Mashke aux trois arts
Saturday, February 18 at 9:00pm
Location: café des trois arts, 21 rue des rigoles, métro jourdain
Mashke (chant yiddish et musique klezmer)
Chant et accordéon : Violaine Lochu
Clarinettes : David Zouker
Guitare, Bouzouki, Mandoline : Loïc Audry
Percussions : Nicolas Durolin

Mashke c’est la rencontre de quatre musiciens aux origines et univers différents. Tous sont animés par l’envie d’injecter dans le répertoire traditionnel des musiques juives d’Europe centrale leur propre réalité, d’autres sonorités. Mashke c’est la volonté de mêler les mots et les langues, d’allier cultures et territoires hétérogènes, de revisiter et réinterpréter ces magnifiques mélodies. Mais c’est avant tout une invitation au partage, à la danse et au chant tout autant qu’au rêve, à l’émotion et à la réflexion.

Mashke s'est agrandi!
Notre nouveau musicien, Loïc Audry, saura vous faire voyager du bout des doigts.Chaleur méditerranéenne à la mandoline, sonorités mystiques au bouzouki et rythmes manouches effrénés à la guitare sont au rendez vous. Venez découvrir ces nouvelles couleurs intimistes mais aussi endiablées lors de ce prochain concert!

Lullabies and Legacy: The World of Yiddish Children's Songs

Lullabies and Legacy: The World of Yiddish Children's Songs
Songs of the cradle and home life, kheyder and nature.
Tuesday, February 7 at 12:00pm
Tuesdays, February 7th - 28th from 12:00-1:30pm
Location: The Workmen's Circle
247 West 37th Street, New York, New York
For reservations call: 212-889-6800 x234
Or email: events@circle.org
http://www.circle.org/comeintothecircle.html

Klezmatics 25th Anniversary and CD Release

Sunday, February 26, 2012
4:00 & 7:00 PM
Gary and Laura Maurer Concert Hall
4544 N. Lincoln Ave.
Chicago
< /br> $25 General Public/$23 Old Town School Members/$21 Seniors & Children
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Grammy winners The Klezmatics erupted out of New York City's East Village in 1986 and revitalized klezmer for the new century with music that is steeped in Eastern European Jewish tradition and spirituality, while incorporating contemporary themes such as human rights and anti-fundamentalism with eclectic and danceable musical influences including Arab, African, Latin and Balkan rhythms, jazz and punk.

"ON HOLY GROUND TRAILER"

Yiddish Song of the Week

The Yiddish Song of the Week is a blog presented by the Center for Traditional Music and Dance’s An-sky Jewish Folklore Research Project (AJFRP). This initiative is part of a larger effort by the AJFRP to revitalize traditional Yiddish folksinging performance and research on the subject. The website emphasizes field recordings of traditional Yiddish folksingers from around the world contributed by folklorists, ethnomusicologists, musicians, singers and collectors. Each Yiddish song is presented with Yiddish words and translation, along with commentary from the contributor. Itzik Gottesman is the Director of An-sky Jewish Folklore Research Project.
http://yiddishsong.wordpress.com/

Leo Zeitlin music at JMF in NYC

The Jewish Music Forum of the American Society of Jewish Music will present rare evening event, on Thursday, February 9th at 7 PM. Because these evenings have been so popular, you will need to make reservations to attend (see information below).

The topic is "The Music of Leo Zeitlin," one of the composers of the St. Petersburg School from the early 20th Century. On this occasion the wonderful performers from YIVO's Sidney Krum Young Artis Series will provide live music examples to accompany the talk, which will be given by Professor Paula Eisenstein Baker, with Dr. Michael Steinlauf at respondent.

Joining the Krum Young Artists will be Cantors Robert Abelson, Maria Dubinsky, and Martha Novick. The evening session will be held at the YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, NYC), and will be taped for later broadcast on the web.

The talk is free and open to the public, so you need to make a reservation for seats. Please call YIVO at 212-294-6127.
The Center for Jewish History / 15 West 16th Street / NYC 10011
Phone: 212.874-3990 / Fax: 212.874-8605

Debbie Friedman's Shalom Aleichem

In her last years, Debbie Friedman composed a new melody to the Shabbat hymn "Shalom Aleichem". Here the high school choir, HaZamir, performs the piece in 2011,arranged by M. B. Edelman, Conducted by Cantor Leon Sher - HaZamir Bergen County, Cantor Sanford Cohn - HaZamir Hartford on Guitar, Scott Stein on piano

Debbie Friedman's Shalom Aleichem

In her last year, Debbie Friedman composed a new melody to the Shabbat hymn "Shalom Aleichem". Here the high school choir, HaZamir, performs the piece in 2011,arranged by M. B. Edelman, Conducted by Cantor Leon Sher - HaZamir Bergen County, Cantor Sanford Cohn - HaZamir Hartford on Guitar, Scott Stein on piano

Is It Ever Too Late?

Not too late... for next year.... A new Yiddish song for Chanukkah. Take a listen klezmers.

Veretski Pass with Benjy Fox Rosen Trio

Veretski Pass is joined by the perky Benjy Fox Rosen Trio , (Michael Winograd, Pat Farrell and Benjy), for a dance party extraordinaire at Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center,
1317 San Pablo Ave
Berkeley, California 94702
Doors at 7:00 pm
Dance Lesson at 7:30 pm with Dave Rosenfeld
Show at 8:30 pm, $10
Sweat it to 2 generations of great dance players!

The St. Petersburg School: The Music of Leo Zeitlin (1884-1930)" by Dr. Paula Eisenstein Baker

The Jewish Music Forum invites you to their next event of the 2011-2012 Jewish Music Forum season. Thursday, February 9, 2012, at the Center for Jewish History, Professor Paula Eisenstein Baker will present a pre-concert talk entitled, "The St. Petersburg School: The Music of Leo Zeitlin (1884-1930)." The event details are as follows:

Feb. 9th, 2012
Thursday, 7:00 P.M.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, New York 10011

Professor Paula Eisenstein Baker with YIVO’s Sidney Krum Young Artists. Leo Zeitlin belonged to a group of early 20th- century young Russian-Jewish composers--mostly students of the St. Petersburg Conservatory and members of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg--who were united by the idea of creating a Jewish national music movement. Fascinated by Zeitlin’s masterpiece “Eli Zion,” cellist Paula Eisenstein Baker started to investigate the life and works of this remarkable, but almost unknown, composer. The result was an important volume of chamber music coinciding with growing international interest in Jewish art music from early 20th-century Russia.

Paula Eisenstein Baker, Houston cellist and musicologist, is an authority on the early twentieth-century Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg, Russia. She has published articles on composer and society member Leo Zeitlin (1884–1930) in the YIVO Annual, the International Journal of Musicology and Shofar, and is co-editor of the volume of Zeitlin’s chamber music that will be published by A-R Editions, Inc. She has spoken about and performed works by members of the society for audiences throughout the United States, as well as in St. Petersburg, Vilnius, and London.

VANESSA PALOMA - AL PASAR POR CASABLANCA "Don Bueso"

Vanessa Paloma sings in the Southwest in this video.

Ya'alili by 8th Day

A chassidic duo blends pop with some instrumental elements of Sephardi music in this New York video taking place in a grocery store. Co-founded by brothers Shmuel and Bentzi Marcus, the duo has released 3 albums. 8th Day's sound is complimented by their catchy lyrics (mostly English with some Hebrew and Yiddish mixed in) and their spirited vocal harmonies. The group will appear at the
Hofstra Playhouse
Motzei Shabbat, January 7 at 8pm.
at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse.
118 Hofstra University, Hemstead, NY.
for tix: www.jewishtickets.com

This YouTube video has over a million hits.

JIC Choir at Ramat Tamir

JIC Choir at Ramat Tamir Beit Avot (Motzei Shabbat Parshat Shmot)
Saturday, January 14 at 10:00pm
Location: Ramat Tamir
Golda Meir Boulevard, Ramot Road
Tel: 02-5724444
http://www.ramat-tamir.co.il/

Adirah Sings in 3 Lanugages

Adirah Liebschutz is a singer and composer who was inspired to compose praise and worship songs based on Scripture and Jewish liturgy. Adirah has been profoundly moved by stories passed from survivors of the Shoah and Kristallnacht and have created a musical tribute from Tehillim (Psalms). Two of the songs appear on her first CD, Tehilim, and were composed by victims of the Holocaust. They were preserved in the memory of her mother-in-law, who was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, and passed on. Adirah has shared these memories on her CD in which she presents songs in 3 languages, Hebrew, Spanish and English. For more information:
http://www.adirahsings.com/

Jaffa Road in Concert in Toronto

Jaffa Road in Concert at Acoustic Harvest
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Time: 7:30pm until 10:30pm
at St. Nicholas Anglican Church
1512 Kingston Rd Toronto -

featuring:
Aviva Chernick - vocalist
Aaron Lightstone - oud, guitar
Chris Gartner - Bass
Jeff Wilson - Drums
Sundar Viswanathan - Sax, Bansuri
Doors at 7:30 concert at 8:00pm
Admission: $22 - Students / Seniors $20 Under 12 - $14
Wheelchair accessible.
Info: 416 264 2235 lillianw(at)uniserve(dot)com
www.acousticharvest.ca
www.jaffaroad.com

Cantor Yehuda Rottner Concert in Florida

Monday, February 6, 2012
7:30pm until 10:30pm

Description
Ab eclectic musical night filled with Chazzanut, opera, Israeli, Yiddish and Broadway musical

tickets are $30
Please rsvp by phone 786 470 9205
Ramada Plaza Marco Polo Beach Resort
19201 Collins Ave
Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160

Krakauer and Haimovitz at Joe's Pub in NYC

After returning from a whirlwind tour in Europe in "Krakauer Plays Zorn" with the Madness Orchestra, David Krakauer is back in the U.S. Looking ahead to what's next on his agenda, he'll be playing with cellist Matt Haimovitz at Joe's Pub in New York City

Joe's Pub with Matt Haimovitz
Akoka: The End of Time
featuring Socalled with Maria Bachmann & Geoffrey Burleson

WHERE: Joe's Pub - 425 Lafayette Street, NYC 10003
WHEN: Saturday, January 14, 2012
TIME: 9:00 PM
TICKETS: $20 -
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YIVOSounds Remembers Adrienne Cooper

http://yivosounds.com/
Posted January 4 2012

Canadian Radio to Honor Adrienne Cooper

On Tuesday, January the 10 2012 at 8PM (Eastern time), there will be a show about Adrienne Cooper on Radio-Shalom Montreal 1650 AM. You can tune in if you are in Montreal or close enough, or listen to it on line at www.radio-shalom.ca. In French, go on tag : "emissions", then choose "les faces caches de la musique Juive." Hosted by Helene Engel.

The Klezmatics Present: An Evening of World Music

Monday, January 9, 2012
Time 8:00pm until 11:00pm
Where Highline Ballroom, 431 West 16th Street, New York, New York
Join the Klezmatics and their guests, the legendary Irish band Lúnasa and New York’s French swing ensemble Les Chauds Lapin, for an unforgettable evening of world music at NYC’s Highline Ballroom.

The Brothers Nazaroff!

Sunday, January 8, 2012
Time 7:00pm until 9:00pm
Barbes
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.), Brooklyn, New York

The joyous public debut of the united heirs of legendary outsider Yiddish troubadour Nathan "Prince" Nazaroff, recorder of the mysterious 1954 Folkways EP "Jewish Freilach Songs", the missing link between our post-modern Babylonian exile and the lost Atlantis of Yiddish "Middle-Europe". Scattered all over the globe from Moscow, Berlin, Budapest, and New York, the lost Nazaroff brothers come together one time only at Barbes, in Brooklyn. Together, Pasha Nazaroff, Danik Nazaroff, Meyshke Nazaroff, Zaelic Nazaroff, and Yankl Nazaroff will celebrate the discordant, obscure, jubilant, ecstatic legacy of their Happy Prince.

Lenka Lichtenberg & Fray with guest artist Yair Dalal

APAP showcase Lenka Lichtenberg with guest artist Yair Dalal
January 7, 2012 at 7:30 PM
New York Hilton, Regent Parlor 2nd floor, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan
Lenka Lichtenberg & Fray with guest artist Yair Dalal
Nominated 2011 World Music Artist of the Year by Canadian Folk Music Awards, the Prague-born Yiddish singer-composer with a captivating voice mesmerizes world and Jewish audiences everywhere with her latest project Fray. Her showcase also provides an intriguing preview of "Lullaby in Exile", her Yiddish/“Babylonian” collaboration with maestro Yair Dalal.

Podcast on Adrienne Cooper

Podcast of the Memorial Service in New York for Adrienne Cooper from The Forward http://forward.com/articles/148921/

Yaffa Yarkoni: A Voice for Peace; Gave Voice to Israeli Pride; Supported National Morale for Half Century

Yaffa Yarkoni, (December 24,1925-Jan 1, 2012). Born in Giv' atayim, Israel. Yarkoni, as many of her generation, was the child of immigrants from the Caucuses. She was the daughter of Malka Alhassof and Avraham Abramov, the middle daughter of three children. Each parent had migrated early in the 20th century. Avraham Abramov, a fabric and carpet dealer, met Malka in Tel Aviv and married her there. Later, he left his family and moved to South Africa. Meanwhile, Malka was left to raise the children. She owned Tslil coffee house in Givatayim (Givat Rambam). All three young children (including Yaffa's siblings Binyamin, Tikva) proved to have musical talent in singing, dancing and playing musical instruments. They started off in a teenage group Basmati. Yaffa attended Gertrude Kraus Dance School and from there succeeded in landing a place with the dance troupe of the Palestine Opera Company. In 1944, she married a young solider, Yosef Gustin, who was in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army. He was stationed in Italy and killed just before the end of the World War II. Yaffa was not yet 20 years old.

Yaffa developed a successful singing career in the new State of Israel, starting off singing songs of the Palmach while in the Army's Givati Brigade. She was a radio operator during Israel's War of Independence. She started singing for large groups at that time, appearing in the army choral troupe and continued to bolster the nation's morale through many of the tough wars for the next fifty years and became known as "the Singer of the Wars," a designation she didn't like. In 1948, she married Shaike Yarkoni and had three children, Orit, Tamar and Ruth.

After her first album was a hit, she started recording songs for the troups with Hed Artzi, a new record label in Israel. Such memorable tunes as "Bab el Wad" were sung worldwide. In 1967, Yarkoni was chosen to sing "Jerusalem of Gold" in front of the Western Wall after Israel recaptured the city. She traveled throughout the world singing Israel's new Hebrew songs to sell-out audiences in world venues such as New York's Carnegie Hall, the Paris Olympia and London's Palladium. In 1998, she was awarded the Israel Prize during the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the State. In 2000, a CD, "Rumania, Rumania" of Yarkoni singing Yiddish songs (with arrangements by Glenn Osser) was produced by Simon Rutberg of Hatikvah music. She felt it was OK to sing in languages, even if she didn't understand them (she didn't know Yiddish, but she did learn French, Spanish and even enough to sing in Japanese). She also recorded with Dizzy Gillespie, the jazz artist. In 2002, after a controversial radio interview in which she opposed some political actions of the Israeli government, Yarkoni received hate mail and had her life threatened. Many of her concerts were canceled and there was a boycott called of her music. Later, such harsh attitudes by many softened, due to her great service for so many decades to the country. In 2005, nearing age 80, she sang again for the 57th anniversary of Israel, but also agreed to appear at the Vox Club for gay fans in Tel Aviv. Her show of support by agreeing to sing there was very well received among that community. Yarkoni died Jan. 1, 2012, age 86, from a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease. She was honored in Israel with music on radio, TV and in national salutes by politicians and citizens.



See: Washington Post Obit at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/yaffa-yarkoni-israeli-wartime-singer-who-criticized-military-dies-at-86/2012/01/01/gIQAN2t8TP_story.html

See: Jerusalem Post Obit at:
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=251767

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Israeli & Ernest Bloch Music Competition 2012

Applications are now open for the Israeli Music Competition and the Ernest Bloch Music Competition.

The Israeli Music Competition was begun in 2008 and aims to familarise both professionals and students with the fascinating styles of Israeli music - a rich tapestry of sounds which produce a musical blend without equal; a fusion of Western musical idioms such as Klezmer (brought over with the first immigrants in the 1880s), and Eastern traditions brought by Jews from Arab countries.

The Ernest Bloch Music Competition was begun in 2009. Ernest Bloch (24 July 1880 – 15 July 1959) was a Swiss-born, American-Jewish composer and, since the 50th anniversary of his death was commemorated in 2009, the addition of the Ernest Bloch Music Competition to the Israeli Music Competition has drawn much worldwide interest. It has therefore been decided to make the Ernest Bloch Music Competition a regular part of the Israeli Music Competition.

Each competitor is asked to play a prescribed classical composition, a piece of their own choice, as well as an Israeli piece for the Israeli Music Competition and a piece by Bloch for the Ernest Bloch Competition.

http://www.israelimusiccompetition.org/

The first prize for the Israeli Music Competition is:

• £1,500
• a concert and live recording (including a lightly edited "auditorium-cum-studio" master CD) at the Jerusalem Music Centre
• a recital in one of London’s top venues sponsored by the JMI
  

The second prize for the Israeli Music Competition is:

• a performance with the London International Orchestra

Ernest Bloch Music Competition
The first prize for the Ernest Bloch Music Competition is

• £1000>
• a recital in one of London’s top venues sponsored by the JMI

The second prize for the Ernest Bloch Music Competition is:

• £500

For entry information, see the website: http://www.israelimusiccompetition.org/
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Adrienne Cooper: A Yiddish Light Goes Out

Adrienne Cooper Khane-freyde bas beyle-buni z"l.

Adrienne Cooper (1946-2011), a leading light of Yiddish song died early last night, December 25, of cancer in Roosevelt Hospital in NYC. She was surrounded by her family and friends. Ms. Cooper, one of the world's top figures of Yiddish music, brought Yiddish folk and theater music to modern audiences. She was a valued performer, not only for her impressive vocal qualities, but her masterful interpretive style and tremendous stage presence. She presented Yiddish song in such an expressive way that any audience could understand and appreciate it. Along with her feminist social conscience, she was a mentor and leader to thousands of musicians and students. She helped co-found "Klezkamp" and spread Yiddish culture throughout the world. She is survived by a daughter, Sara Gordon, and partner Marilyn Lerner, two brothers and her mother.

Adrienne Cooper was born September 1, 1946 in Oakland, California. Her grandmother made homemade wax discs of Yiddish folk and liturgical music, and her grandfather was a baritone ba'al t'fillah. Adrienne's mother was an opera and musical theater performer, and a prominent concert performer of Yiddish and Hebrew music. Cooper began studying voice in her late teens with her mother's teacher, Mary Groom Jones. She continued studying classical art song with Mina Lief at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. She then attended Hebrew University and received a BA in history. Later she continued voice training with Jennie Tourel and Simon Sargon.

After returning to the United States, she studied at the University of Chicago, where she received an MA in history. She first performed Yiddish songs in graduate school.

In 1975, Cooper moved to New York and was coached by Lazar Weiner, the prominent composer of Yiddish art song. She also studied with Yiddish poet and lyricist Wolf Younin. After taking summer courses in Yiddish language, she became an assistant director at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. In 1985, she co-founded with Henry Sapoznik the multi-generational Yiddish Folk Arts Program, popularly known as "Klezkamp". Klezkamp successfully trains upcoming music professionals and others interested in folk education.

Cooper concertized internationally throughout Europe in such diverse places as Russian, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Poland, Germany, along with Israel, Canada and throughout the US. She performed and recorded widely with top klezmer bands such as the Klezmatics, Kapelye, and Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band, Frank London’s Klezmer Brass AllStars, and performers such as David Krakauer, Zalmen Mlotek, and DJ So-Called. In recent years, she also participated and recorded in all women's groups such as Mikveh and a group calling themselves "The Three Yiddish Divas". Her success was also due to the exploration and expansion to new repertoire, as in her CD "Ghetto Tango" and her participation in a newly written theater piece, the critically acclaimed “The Memoir of Gluckl of Hameln (with Jenny Romaine and Frank London/Great Small Works Theater).” She also starred in “Esn: Songs from the Kitchen” with Frank London and Lorin Sklamberg.

One of her strengths was bringing intellectual as well as musical force to bear in her amazing collaborations in a wide variety of styles. With Marilyn Lerner, she composed new music to Yiddish poetry, "Shake My Heart Like a Copper Bell: On the Poetry of Anna Margolin" and collaborated with other women composers writing new Jewish music, such as Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman. Other works included the 1989 Partisans of Vilna and her 1995 solo debut cassette with Joyce Rosenzweig, Dreaming in Yiddish which was reviewed onThe KlezmerShack . Her most recent solo CD was Enchanted: A New Generation of Yiddishsong (Golden Horn Records, 2010). She is featured on film (most recently in the documentaries “Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner” and in “Making Trouble! Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women”) and her recent writings on Yiddish culture have appeared in Lilith Magazine and the journal Bridges.

Cooper served as Executive Officer for Cultural Programs and Jewish Journeys at The Workmen’s Circle for over a decade, where she produced programs in Jewish literacy and culture, following on the groundwork that was started by her as a leader in the revival of Yiddish culture.

Cooper received many awards and honors in her lifetime, including commissions from University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Center and UCLA, The Jewish Museum, United Synagogue, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National and New York State Endowments on the Arts, the New York Council for the Humanities, and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. She is the recipient of Klez Canada’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Yiddish Arts and Culture. In December 2010 she also received the Marshall T Meyer Risk-Taker Award by the Jews for Racial and Economic Justice society.

On a personal note, I had the deep pleasure of studying with Adrienne Cooper as a student in her Yiddish song classes in the Zumer-progam by YIVO Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies held at Columbia in 2001. I also saw her perform many, many times in different venues, and each time was something very special. She made Yiddish song come alive, be an immediate presence, and have meaning in the modern world. We will miss this interpreter of dreams. Mit Liebshaft un sholem.

Another Hanukkah Song

A couple of years ago, Erran Baron Cohen recorded this and it is on the NPR site. http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=98443492&m=98503469