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From the Shtetl to The Promised Land
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Music, Storytellers
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Adult
David's Jewish/Yiddish repertoire is expansive and features songs
in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Ladino. Some of it comes from Eastern Europe.
Some of it comes from Yiddish Theater of the early twentieth century.
And some if it comes from more modern sources - Fiddler On the Roof,
If I Were a Rich Man, Sunrise, Sunset, etc.
Russian:
Katyusha
Kalinka
Yiddish:
Tumbalalaika Roshinkes Mit Mandlen
A Yiddishe Mame Di Mezinke Oysgegeben
Di Grine Kuzine Shein v' Di Livone
Oi Ist Dus a Rebbetzin Bublitchki
Yossel Yossel Shers and Freilachs
Vus Geven ist Geven un Nit Tu Kazatzki
Oif'n Pripetshok
American-Jewish:
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, Fiddler, Matchmaker, To Life, Sunrise Sunset
Israeli:
Hava Nagilah Shalom Aleichem
Am Yisrael Chai Ba Shana Ha Baah
Heiveinu Shalom Aleichem Lo Yisa Goy
Oseh Shalom Siman Tov
Sisu et Y'rushalaim Tzena Tzena
Chorshat HaEkaliptus Jerusalem of Gold
Hallelujah
$450. always willing to be flexible
Group Size
up to 200
Program Length
One Hour
open room with chairs
Last Modified
04/01/2009
Recent Library/School Appearances by David S. Polansky
Thayer Public Library
Braintree, MA
781 848 0405 x4
Lauren Lepanto, West End Branch Lib. (BPL)
Boston, MA
(617)523-3957
Laura Ford, dir. , Falmouth Public Library
Falmouth, MA
(508) 457-2555
Carin O'Connor, Honan-Allston Branch BPL
Boston/Allston, MA
(617) 787-6313
Tim DiPace, W. Roxbury Branch, BPL
Boston/Allston, MA
(617) 325-3147
Performer’s Contact Information
David S. Polansky
David Polansky17 Arlington Road
Natick, MA 01760
...could be titled "A HISTORY OF JEWISH MUSIC FROM THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS"