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Di Goldene Pave / The Golden Peacock edited by Sheva Zucker (CD)
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THE CD FEATURES:
The voices of 10 authors including:
- The beloved Sholem Aleichem
- Major Yiddish poets and prose writers of the past such as Yankev Glatshteyn, Celia Dropkin, H. Leivick, Aron Glantz-Leyeles, Kadye Molodowsky
- Late 20th and early 21st century artists Yente Mash, Avrom Sutzkever, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, and Yekhiel Shraibman reading from their works
The selections on the CD represent many of the genres and themes of modern Yiddish literature.
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
- Yankev Glatshteyn's poem "A gute nakht, velt," a prophetic renunciation of Western culture on the eve of the Holocaust
- Kadye Molodowsky's delightful children's verse, "Olke mit der bloyer parasolke"
- Yente Mash's "Broyt," a haunting short story about life in Siberian exile under Soviet rule
- Yekhiel Shraibman's autobiographical account of his beginnings as a Yiddish writer
- Short musical motifs, often to poetry written by the authors themselves, accompany each writer's selections, arranged and executed by Alexander (Sender) Botwinik of Philadelphia.
Listeners interested in literature and/or Yiddish dialects will find these recordings a treasure!
The CD is accompanied by a 150 page booklet.
THE BOOKLET CONTAINS:
- Notes on each work in English
- The complete Yiddish text
- A glossary of difficult words in transliteration (for those who understand Yiddish but cannot read it), English, Hebrew, and Russian
- Biographies of each writer in both English and Yiddish
- Bibliography of the works both in Yiddish and in English translation
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