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| Calling All *Zamlers! -
The Yiddish Dance Action Network Needs You For hundreds of years, Ashkenazi Jews were part of a diverse tapestry of ethnic communities in Eastern and Central Europe. Dance, particularly during wedding festivities, was an important means of cultural expression and community cohesion for Jews living in cities and shtetlekh (villages) alike. These old Eastern European Jewish folk dances are now known as Yiddish dances. Examples include the freylekhs, bulgar and sher. To find out more about the dances visit www.yiddishdance.com A variety of factors caused most traditional Yiddish dance and its associated klezmer repertoire to fall almost completely out of practice by the 1960s. While remnants of a limited number of dance forms and gestures are retained in Hasidic communities, today there are but a few elderly immigrant and second-generation Jews left who still perform, or can even recall traditional dance from either Europe or America. The Yiddish Dance Action Network is a non-profit association of musicians, dancers, ethnographers and others who strive to document and continue the traditions of Yiddish Dance. We need your help. We seek materials and memories that will help complete the picture of what Yiddish dance was and what it can be. Examples of useful documentation include: -memories of Yiddish dancing: perhaps you have a family member or friend who recalls the old dances and wants to share these memories -old family films, home movies or photos of celebrations that feature Yiddish dance -written descriptions in books or personal accounts of the dances, such as written memoirs If you have information about the dances that you would like to share, please contact us: Helen Winkler or Pete Rushefsky Peter I. Rushefsky, Executive Director Center for Traditional Music and Dance 32 Broadway, Suite 1314 New York, NY 10004 Tel: USA (1) 212.571.1555 ext. 36 Fax: USA (1) 212.571.9052 |
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SONG
REQUESTS
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| Can you help? Readers have requested the words to the songs below. If you can transliterate or translate the words to any of these songs please click here to add your song |
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| Freedom Singer David D'or CD and track number: David D'or (eurovision previews) Track 4 Request from Turkey |
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| If you have the words to this song, click here | |
| Ya'asof Zeruim (Collect Seeds) An old Jewish song, was sung by Dana International on an Israel Independence Show. CD and track number: Israeli independence show 2004 Request from New York, USA |
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| If you have the words to this song, click here | |
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"You've Got a Friend" in Hebrew Request from Florida, USA |
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| If you have the words to this song, click here | |
Quiz Question:
For any of you who saw the movie Walk on Water: Lior Ashkenazi's character turns off the radio in disgust after a terrorist attack, saying "It pisses me off when they play sad/patriotic music after a bombing." |
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UPDATES Snippets & items of interest |
| Enjoy Adon Olam Peruvian style |
| Kochav Nolad 4 |
| A first for the Jewish world and the Jewish Agency: |
| For the first time young Jewish people in the Diaspora have an opportunity to take part in the auditions of this top of the ratings Israeli TV program, as it goes into its fourth series. |
| Read all about it on the Jewish Agency website |
| Chords
for Eretz Eretz Eretz We have received another set of chords for Eretz Eretz Am - Dm - E7 - Am / Am - Dm - E7 - Am Chorus: Dm - Am - Dm - Am / G - C - G - C F - Em - Dm - Am / Dm - E7 - Am Thanks to pianist Aviva Alter in San Diego, California, USA |
Here are the chords from David in Texas: Am - Dm - E7 - Am / Am - Dm - E7 - Am Chorus F - C - Dm
- C / Dm - E7 - Am |
| If you have any corrections, please email the publisher |

Dear
readers,
We've had a number of very gracious comments
from people who love our site, but don't necessarily like the way
some song words have been translated or transliterated.
Please be MOST WELCOME to submit ANY
corrections, suggestions, alternatives.
We
are a work in progress!
All amendments are happily received, as are
translations into other languages.
We are here to share the enjoyment of Hebrew Song!
So feel free to contact the publisher and have your say.
Write to the publisher, Aura Levin Lipski
or enter your changes in Add your song to our list