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Thread #168987   Message #4110050
Posted By: Felipa
13-Jun-21 - 07:58 PM
Thread Name: yiddishkeit
Subject: RE: yiddishkeit
There is a wealth of material available.

I heard a song today, Glik (luck or happiness) Music by Alex Olshanetsky, lyrics by Bella Meisel, from a musical, "Der Letster Tants" (the last dance). It's on an album "Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn", Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage, vol. 2. So there must be a volume 1 as well. The recording was issued by the Milliken Archive.

Der Letster Tants was "produced initially at the Prospect Theater in the Bronx in 1930—the first major production for any Bronx theater."
https://www.milkenarchive.org/music/volumes/view/great-songs-of-the-american-yiddish-stage/work/glik/ (the article includes a synopsis of the drama)

This recording of Glik has lyrics on screen - in Yiddish, transliteration and translation to English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K5P9nf8Cu8 and a link to http://www.polishjewishcabaret.com/ Yiddish songs of the 1920s -1930s

Yiddish theater in America: https://www.milkenarchive.org/articles/view/yiddish-theater-virtual-tour

Milliken archive, Yiddish Theater, Vaudeville, Radio, and Film