RAISINS WITH ALMONDS {ROZHINKES MIT MANDLIN}: A CELEBRATION OF LIFE {KOSOFSKY ETHNIC RADIO COLLECTION -- YIDDISH, HEBREW, AND ENGLISH} (RADIO)
Summary
This program celebrates and addresses issues pertaining to Jewish culture through music. Interspersed with the musical selections are anecdotes and comments on many topics, including Jewish history, philosophy, mysticism, the Jewish immigrant experience in America and Europe, religious observances, Yiddish theater, and the Holocaust. The program begins with comments about the Talmud and is followed by a performance by clarinetist Giora Feitman of "Sholem Aleichem Malachei Hashoreis" ("Peace Be Upon You, Angel"). Other selections include bits from "Fiddler on the Roof" featuring Zero Mostel and Shmuel Rudensky; a few strains of Bach from harpsichordist Wanda Landowska; jokes from Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner; "Lfichoch Anachnu Chayovim L'hodos" ("We Are Obligated to Render Praise Unto You") performed by a cantor; a lullaby titled "Raisins and Almonds" from the operetta "Shulamis," by Abraham Goldfaden; a musical excerpt from the operetta "The Witch"; an excerpt from a Hebrew production of "My Fair Lady"; the songs "My Grandfather Drank from this Cup" and "Rumania, Rumania"; recordings of Richard Tucker, who said, "If not for my cantorial training, I would never have achieved anything in the operatic field"; letters to the Bintel Brif, an advice column in the Jewish Daily Forward; the song "Royte Pomerantzn" ("Red Oranges") from the Chicago Board of Jewish Education Children's Choir; Sophie Tucker with "A Yiddish Mame" ("A Jewish Mother"); the Yiddish poem "Children of Majdanek," by Aaron Tesetlin; and recorded comments from Philip Roth, Elie Wiesel, David Ben Gurion, and Abba Eban. Other individuals whose voices or music are heard include Cantors Moyshe Oysher and Moyshe Koussevitsky, the Arnold Miller Folk Chorus, Cantor Leybele Waldman, the Orchestra and Choir of the Bucharest State Jewish Theater, Artur Rubinstein, Jan Pierce, Theodore Bikel, Al Jolson, Theodore Roosevelt, Howard da Silva, Joel Grey, Aaron Lebedeff, Nathan Milstein, and Cantor Mordechai Hershman.
(This program is in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.)
The acquisition and cataloging of this program were made possible by Marvin and Jacqueline Kosofsky.
Details
- NETWORK: Syndicated
- DATE: November 30, 1977
- RUNNING TIME: 1:48:00
- COLOR/B&W: N/A
- CATALOG ID: R:12692
- GENRE: Radio - Music; Radio - Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Jews, American; Music, Hebrew; Music, Yiddish
- SERIES RUN: N/A
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Morris Carnovsky … Writing (Misc.)
- Irving Howe … Writing (Misc.)
- Max Perlman … Writing (Misc.)
- Maurice Samuel … Writing (Misc.)
- Maurice Schwartz … Writing (Misc.)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer … Writing (Misc.)
- Gertrude Stein … Writing (Misc.)
- Studs Terkel … Writing (Misc.)
- Aaron Tesetlin … Writing (Misc.)
- Johann Sebastian Bach … Composer
- Abraham Goldfaden … Composer
- Arnold Miller Folk Chorus, The
- David Ben-Gurion
- Theodore Bikel
- Mel Brooks
- Chicago Board of Jewish Education Children's Choir
- Choir of the Bucharest State Jewish Theater, The
- da Silva, Howard
- Abba Eban
- Giora Feitman
- Joel Grey
- Mordechai Hershman
- Al Jolson
- Moyshe Koussevitsky
- Wanda Landowska
- Aaron Lebedeff
- Nathan Milstein
- Zero Mostel
- Orchestra of the Bucharest State Jewish Theater, The
- Moyshe Oysher
- Jan Pierce
- Carl Reiner
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Philip Roth
- Artur Rubinstein
- Shmuel Rudensky
- Richard Tucker
- Sophie Tucker
- Leybele Waldman
- Elie Wiesel