A nice Yiddish love song popped up on YouTube this morning. I don't run into a lot of Yiddish music that isn't part of a contemporary klezmer or shiny shoe (orthodox pop) show, so I thought I'd share it. The song is Reyzle by
Mordechai Gebirtig (b. 1877, Krakow - d. 1942, Krakow) a popular Yiddish poet and songwriter. For Gebirtig's full bio and song list, as well as recordings of a dozen other performers signing Reyzl see
SavetheMusic.Com. The YouTube video doesn't give any performer credits, but I think this is the
Ami Flammer,
Moshe Leiser and
Gérard Barreaux version from their lovely 1985 Radio France album "
Chansons In Yiddish."
(All useful info here came from
SaveTheMusic.com, an amazing resource for Jewish music of all sorts.)
Hat Tip to YouTube user
Sasha365i for posting the video. Sasha3651 has a large collection of Yiddish videos, check 'em out.
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