[Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: November 30, 2008

Thank you to everyone for responding with words
and translations and memories of Oyfin
Pripitchik, in all its spellings!. My heart is
warmed just like the little room. --- Jessica

At 12:08 AM 12/1/2008, you wrote:
>CZERNOWITZ-L Digest for Sunday, November 30, 2008.
>
>1. [Cz-L] translation of the song Oyfin Pripetshok
>2. [Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: November 29, 2008
>3. RE: [Cz-L] translation of the song Oyfin Pripetshok
>4. Re: [Cz-L] translation of the song Oyfin Pripetshok
>
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>Subject: [Cz-L] translation of the song Oyfin Pripetshok
>From: jeanne andelman <eandelman2_at_earthlink.net>
>Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:56:33 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
>X-Message-Number: 1
>
>Dear Jessica, my father also sang this haunting
>song and it wasn't until 1994 when I interviewed
>2 survivors from Mielnica, Galicia (the town my
>mother came from) that I learned what the
>Pripetshok/Pripetshik was. This inspired me to
>write a musical based on my research called
>Mama! I Can See the Town!! I took the liberty of including girls in my ver=
se.
>The original song was sung by a girls' choir as
>the background to the movie SHINDLER'S LIST.
>
>Enjoy singing and passing this fabulous song unto your family and friends.
>
>Jeanne Blitzer Andelman
>eandelman2_at_earthlink.net
>Cleveland, OH
>
>
>Translation for “Oyfin Pripetshok”:
>
>OH, THE FIRE BURNS IN THE FIRE PLACE AND THE ROOM IS HOT;
>AND THE RABBI TEACHES ALL THE BOYS AND GIRLS THE ALPHABET;
>AND THE RABBI TEACHES ALL THE BOYS AND GIRLS THE ALPHABET.
>
>SEE NOW, LITTLE ONES, REMEMBER CHILDREN DON'T FORGET IT, PLEASE.
>SAY IT ONCE AND SAY IT OVER ONCE AGAIN, ALL YOUR A B CS.
>SAY IT ONCE AND SAY IT OVER ONCE AGAIN, ALL YOUR A B C S
>
>Original verse for “Oyfin Pripetshok”:
>
> OYFIN PRIPETSHOK BRENT A FAYERL,
> UN IN SHTUB IZ HEYS;
> UN DER REBE LERENT KLEYNE KINDERLECH
> DEM ALEF BEYS,
> UN DER REBE LERENT KLEYNE KINDERLECH
> DEM ALEF BEYS.
>
> LEAH ZETZHE KINDERLECH, GEDENKT ZHE TAYERE
> VOS IR LERENT DO;
> ZOGT ZHE NOCH A MOL UN TAKE NOCH A MOL
> KOMETS ALEF
> BEYS, ZOGT ZJE NOCH A MOL UN TAKE NOCH A MOL
> KOMETS ALEF BEYS.
>................................................................
>Song-lyrics #10 Pripetshik(dance) by Jeanne Blitzer Andelman)
> PRIPETSHIK (STOVE-OVEN)
>MODERATO (sung in a round and danced)
>
> Pripetshik, Pripetshik,
> Source of all our nourishment,
> Bakes the bread, dries the corn,
> Mostly keeps us warm!
> Wood and coal against the wall,
> Feeds this wondrous thing of all!
> In the kitchen large and strong,
> Burning brightly all night long!
> Pripetshik, Pripetshik, how we love your song!
>RABBI SAM plops down on sofa
>
>..........................................................................=
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