"Vol. 1"-- Disc label.
Collection comprises wordless chants, instrumental performances, songs, and synagogal liturgies.
Digitally reproduced from Edison wax cylinders.
Includes short greeting by Sholom Aleichem to the Jewish Ethnographic Museum, 1914.
The Vernadsky Library is the repository of recordings made from 1912 to 1947 in Jewish areas of Ukraine and Belarus. The result of ethnographic expeditions initiated by S. An-sky and continued by other Jewish folklorists including Moiseĭ Beregovskiĭ, the recordings chronicle the achievements of folk musicians during the pre- and post-revolutionary periods of Ukrainian history.
Kurtse bagrisung dem Yishn Etnografishn muzey / Sholom-Alejhem (1:44 -- Freyleyks (Hasid tune) (1:01) -- Dem Berditshever rovs dudke (1:22) -- Dem Berditshever rovs Kadish (2:03) -- Ve-lakh haya omar (1:14) -- Yavu adir (Song of the end of Saturday) (0:32) -- Dance play (violin) (0:50) -- Fun der shtub bin ich aroysgegangen (1:05) -- Mayn kop iz mir tsebrokhn (0:47) -- A khsidisher nign (Hasid tune) (0:47) -- Akhashverosh-shpil (fragment, recitative) (2:18) -- Oy, keyn tshan bin ikh nor ongekumen (0:51) -- In bolnitse hob ikh a nayes gehert (1:01) -- Kale bazetsn (fragment of traditional wedding) (4:11) -- Ekh, khorosha sluzhba nasha yevreyskaya (0:27) -- Oy, Abram, ikh ken on dir nit zayn (0:33) -- Moskve ist mayn geburtshtot (0:51) -- Reb Dovid Karliners nign (1:55) -- Kudi idesh? (0:52) -- Durney, durney Marko (0:33) --Lakhen ko omar (1:42) -- Two children's count verses: "A rod un a ran" ; "Lokshn Ila zakatyla (0:55) -- Shloyme ha-meylekh (0:58) -- Tsvey shvesterlekh (1:05) -- Makht der khosidl; "Bim-bom" (1:25) -- Makht mir nisht keyn foyle komplimentn (0:37) -- Shma kolanu (1:47) -- Der tate in Amerike (1:25) -- Mi adir al ha-kol (1:33) -- Baleboste zisinke (0:34) -- An Oster nign (Oster tune) (1:24) -- Az di baleboste geyt arayn (1:01) -- Di shtot Beynazeres (3:56) -- Nign (chant) (1:40) -- Purimshpil fragment (3:51) -- Ikh zits mir in shenkl (1:30) -- Tsesheydn kon undz nit keyner (1:13) -- Dem kheyder vel ikh gedenken (1:44) -- Shoyn dray yor, az mir shpiln beyde libe (0:35) -- Agava raba (from repertoire of violinist Pedotser) (1:41).
Sung principally in Yiddish.
