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Die Goldene Pave - THE GOLDEN PEACOCK The Voice of the Yiddish Writer BILINGUAL Yiddish English

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A unique bilingual spoken word recording featuring 12 Yiddish writers accompanied by English translation

Yankev Glatshteyn, Celia Dropkin, Elie Wiesel, H. Leivick, Aron Glanz-Leyeles, Kadya Molodowsky, Itzik Manger, Avrom Sutzkever, Rokhl Korn, Sholem-Aleichem, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman and Yekhiel Shraibman—reading from their poetry and prose.

English is read by Sheva Zucker and Trudie Kessler, Professor Emerita of Voice and Acting at The Theatre School/DePaul University in Chicago.

The bilingual recording is available both as a digital download and/or 2 CDs. It is accompanied by a 135-page book with:

  • Complete Yiddish text of readings plus the English translation
  • Notes on each work in English
  • Biography of each writer in English and Yiddish
  • The first Golden Peacock is solely in Yiddish.
  • The new version is in Yiddish and English, with the  Yiddish readings PLUS their English translations.
  • The Golden Peacock BILINGUAL includes three writers—
  • Itzik Manger, Elie Wiesel, and Rokhl Korn—not found on the first.
  • The bilingual Golden Peacock BILINGUAL has four additional works not included in the original, namely, Glatshteyn's â€œMy Wander-Brother"
    (Mayn vogl-bruder); Dropkin's "Lullaby" (A viglid) and her "To My Son, who Made Me a Present of Light Blue Beads" (Tsu mayn zun velkher hot mir geshenkt hel bloye kareln); and Molodowsky's "To a Child's
    Portrait" (Tsu a kinds portret).
  • The Golden Peacock BILINGUAL does NOT include Yente
    Mash and several readings have been omitted.

PROGRAM: THE GOLDEN PEACOCK
The Voice of the Yiddish Writer BILINGUAL
די גאָלדענע פּאַווע
דאָס קול פֿון דעם ייִדישן שרײַבער צוויישפּראַכיק

CD 1

ENGLISH INTRODUCTION
(Sheva Zucker, Music: DI ZUN VET ARUNTERGEYN (The Sun Will Set) (Moyshe-Leyb Halperin, Music: Ben Yomen)

YIDDISH INTRODUCTION
(Sheva Zucker, Music: DI ZUN VET ARUNTERGEYN

YANKEV GLATSHTEYN
Music: VIGLID (Lullaby) Glatshteyn, Music: Sidor Belarsky

1919
1919
Fun kinder-tsimer: A yingele un a zemele
From the Nursery: A Boy and a Roll
Fun kinder-tsimer: Zeyger un Mame
From the Nursery: Clock and Mommie
Vegener
Wagons
A gute nakht, velt
Good Night, World
Mayn vogl-bruder
My Wander-Brother
Vi flaterlekh
Like Moths

CELIA DROPKIN
Music: ES VILT ZIKH MIR ZEN (I Would Like to See) Dropkin,
Music: Frank London

Tsepralte hent fun beymer [Durkh nakht un regn]
Outspread Arms of Trees [Through Night and Rain]
A libebriv
A love Letter
Tsu Estern [Tsu a tokhter]
To a Daughter [To Esther]
A viglid
A Lullaby
Tsu mayn zun, velkher hot mir geshenkt hel bloye kareln
To My Son, Who Made Me a Present of Light Blue Beads
Vays vi der shney
White as the Snow
Shvere gedanken
Heavy Thoughts

ELI WIESEL
Music: BABI-YAR (Babi Yar) Shike Driz, Music: Riva Boyarska

Babi-Yar
Babi Yar

H. LEIVICK
Music: LEYG DAYN KOP (Lay Your Head) Leivick, Music: Leybu Levin

Yidishe poetn
Yiddish Poets

ARON GLANZ-LEYELES
Music NYU-YORK (New York) Leyeles, Music: Mikhl Gelbart

Der got fun Yisroel
The God of Israel

KADYA MOLODOWSKY
Music: YERUSHOLAYIM (Jerusalem) Molodowsky, Music: Bernardo Feuer

Yerusholaim
Jerusalem
Olke mit der bloyer parasolke
Olke
Eyl-khanon
Merciful God
Tsu a kinds portret
To a Child's Portrait

CD 2

ITZIK MANGER
Music: DI GOLDENE PAVE (The Golden Peacock) Manger, Music: Dov Seltzer

Lomir zhe zingen
Let Us Sing Simply
Afn veg shteyt a boym
There is a Tree that Stands
Kh'hob zikh yorn gevalgert
For Years I Wallowed
Af der statsye Kolomey
At the Kolomey Station
Avrom Ovinu fort mit Yitskhokn tsu der akeyde
Abraham Takes Itzik to the Sacrifice

AVROM SUTZKEVER
Music: UNTER DAYNE VAYSE SHTERN
(Under Your White Stars) Sutzkever, Music: Avrom Brudno

1974: Ver vet blaybn? fun Lider fun togbukh
1974: Who Will Last from Poems from a diary
Der shmeykhl fun Maydanek
The Smile of Maidanek

ROKHL KORN
Music: UNTER DI POYLISHE GRININKE BEYMELEKH
(Under the Green Trees of Poland) Yoysef Papiernikov, Music: Yisroel Alter

Bam yam
At the Seashore
Es iz a nakht aza
On a Night like This
Ver vet aynshtiln s'geveyn
Who Can Still the Tears of Things

SHOLEM ALEICHEM
Music: SHLOF, MAYN KIND
(Sleep, My Child) Sholem Aleichem, Music: Dovid Kovanovsky

Ven ikh bin Rotshild
If I Were Rothschild
A freylekher yontef
Happy Holiday

BEYLE SCHAECHTER-GOTTESMAN
Music: HARBSTLID (Autumn Song) Schaecther-Gottesman

Zilber-shtern
Silver Stars
Mayn khaverte Mintsye
My Childhood Friend Mintsye

YEKHIEL SHRAYBMAN
Music: KESHENEVER SHTIKELE (Kishinev Tune) Folksong

Mayn tate
My Father

Music: DI ZUN VET ARUNTERGEYN (The Sun Will Set)