RE: [Cz-L] Yiddish songs by Czernowitz authors- Velvel Zbarzher Ehrenkranz

Sholem Aleikhem,

Here is my contribution to the Yidishkeit topic.
For those who did not open the link Yankl M. sent, I'm copying for you the
following text:

About the program
This program includes songs of different genres: love songs, philosophical
ruminations, lullabies, and danc-ing songs, which all share one common trait
- at least one of the song's authors has or had some strong con-nection to
Czernowitz, now known as Chernivtsi, a beautiful town in the modern-day
Ukraine. Czernowitz is well known for its many diverse and important
con-tributions to Yiddish culture, but few people realize that Czernowitz
was also a birthplace of modern Yiddish song. It was in the cafes of
Czernowitz that the song-writing and singing career of Velvl Zbarzher took
off, and in the very same cafes young Avrum Goldfaden met Velvl Zbarzher and
was inspired to start writing his own songs. One of the very first Yiddish
song collec-tions was published in Czerrnowitz in 1881 by Dovid Apoteker. In
the last century, an endless inspiration for song was found in the poetry of
Itzik Manger, whose rhymes have been set to music by dozens of compos-ers.
The program tonight includes some lesser known and more recently written
works by poets and compos-ers from the cradle of Yiddish song.
Asya Vaisman

Well, Mrs. Asya Vaisman wrote here about the BIG MYTHOS of our childhood,
Velvele Zbarzher. His full name was Velvl (Benjamin-Zeev) "Zbarzher"
-EHRENKRANZ.
He came from the town of Zbarash, where my grandmother Jochewed Ehrenkranz
was born. The famous "troubadour" was her great-uncle.

Regards,
Irene Fishler (Ehrenkranz), Haifa
Received on 2007-05-17 18:31:26