Re: [Cz-L] For Posting: Yiddish Song "Geven Amol Iz A Shtetl"

From: Nancy Lapid <nancylapid_at_mac.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:31:26 -0400
To: "Fishbein Associates, Inc." <fishnet_at_pipeline.com>
Reply-to: Nancy Lapid <nancylapid_at_mac.com>

This is wonderful -- and the site is a treasure chest.

Thanks!

Nancy


On Mar 15, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Fishbein Associates, Inc. wrote:

> Friends:
>
> I thought this might be of interest to the subscribers of the
> Czernowitz web
> group. Enjoy.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Randy
>
> Rand H. Fishbein, Ph.D.
> fishnet_at_pipeline.com
>
>
>
> Click here:
> http://savethemusic.com/bin/videos.cgi?q=watch&id=2265
>
>
>
> Quote from web site below:
>
> By: myzeidi
> Date: February 9, 2009
> Hour: 11:23:17 Hrs.
> Views: 78
>
> MyZeidi Yiddish Song "Geven Amol is a Stetl" by Beyle Schaechter-
> Gottesman
> She was born in Vienna into an Eastern-European, Yiddish-speaking
> family;
> her family left for Czernowitz, Ukraine (then Romania) and settled
> there
> when Schaechter-Gottesman was a young child. She was brought up in a
> multi-lingual environment that included Yiddish, German, Romanian, and
> Ukrainian; she also studied French and Latin at school. They were a
> singing
> family and her mother, Lifshe Schaechter, was known for her wide folk
> repertoire. Schaechter-Gottesman was sent to Vienna for art lessons,
> but was
> forced to return to Czernowitz when the Germans invaded Austria in
> 1938. In
> 1941 she married a medical doctor, Jonas (Yoyne) Gottesman, and
> together
> they lived out the war in the Czernowitz ghetto, along with her
> mother and
> several other family members.
> After the war, Schaechter-Gottesman lived several years in Vienna,
> where her
> husband had a chief position ("Chefarzt") in the DP camps in the
> area. Their
> daughter Taube was born there in 1950; the family moved to New York
> in 1951,
> where the Gottesmans had two other children, Hyam and Itzik. In New
> York the
> Gottesmans took part in an experimental Yiddish community in the
> Bronx,
> centered around Bainbridge Avenue. There a half-dozen Yiddish-speaking
> families bought adjacent houses and reinvigorated the existing Sholem
> Aleichem Yiddish School. Schaechter-Gottesman became an important
> member of
> this community, writing classroom materials, plays and songs for the
> school
> as well as editing a magazine for children ("Kinderzhurnal") and a
> magazine
> of children's writings ("Enge-benge").
> Schaechter-Gottesman's first book of poetry, "Mir Forn" (We're
> Travelling)
> appeared in 1963. Her books, eight in total, have appeared regularly
> since
> then. They include poetry for adults, children's books and song
> books. She
> has recorded three CDs of her songs and one recording of folk songs.
> Her
> work does not revolve around a single theme but ranges widely from
> Eastern
> European subjects to contemporary New York, and from lighthearted
> children's
> fare to such sombre reflections as "Di Balade Funem Elftn
> September" (The
> Ballad of September 11th). Her best-known single work is
> "Harbstlid" (Autumn
> Song). Schaechter-Gottesman's songs have been performed by Theodore
> Bikel,
> Adrienne Cooper, Theresa Tova, Lucette van den Berg, Michael Alpert,
> Lorin
> Sklamberg, Sharon Jan Bernstein, Fabian Schnedler, Massel-Tov and
> others. A
> song written for her nephew, "Binyumele's Bar Mitsve", was adapted by
> Adrienne Cooper for her daughter as "Sorele's Bas Mitsve" and was
> recorded
> on the CD Mikveh.
> Schaechter-Gottesman continues to serve as a resource for
> researchers of
> both Yiddish folk and art music. She has been recorded and interviewed
> numerous times and participated in such cultural events as KlezKamp,
> KlezKanada, Buffalo on the Roof, Ashkenaz, and Weimar KlezmerWochen. "
> In 1998 Schaechter-Gottesman was inducted into the People's Hall of
> Fame at
> City Lore in New York; and in 2005 she received a National Endowment
> for the
> Arts Heritage Fellowship, one of the highest cultural honors given
> by a
> United States government agency. She was the first Yiddish poet or
> musical
> figure to receive this honor.
>
> A shtetl (Yiddish: , diminutive form of Yiddish shtot , "town",
> pronounced
> very similarly to the South German diminutive "Städtle", "little
> town") was
> typically a small town with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust
> Central and Eastern Europe. Shtetls (Yiddish plural: , shtetlekh) were
> mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of
> Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Kingdom of Poland,
> Galicia,
> and Romania. A larger city, like Lemberg or Czernowitz, was called a
> shtot
> (Yiddish: ); a smaller village was called a dorf (Yiddish: ).
> The concept of shtetl culture is used as a metaphor for the
> traditional way
> of life of 19th-century Eastern European Jews. Shtetls are portrayed
> as
> pious communities following Orthodox Judaism, socially stable and
> unchanging
> despite outside influence or attacks. The Holocaust resulted in the
> disappearance of the vast majority of shtetls, through both
> extermination
> and mass exodus...
> Category: Music Videos in Yiddish
> Duration: 6:04 Min.
>
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