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From the Shtetl to The Promised Land

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Music, Storytellers

Audience Age
Adult

Description

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

Fee
$450. always willing to be flexible

Group Size
up to 200

Program Length
One Hour

Facility Requirements
open room with chairs

Last Modified
04/01/2009

Comments
...could be titled "A HISTORY OF JEWISH MUSIC FROM THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS"

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 Polansky
17 Arlington Road
Natick, MA 01760
 (508)561-1468
 davidspolansky@gmail.com
 http://www.davidpolansky.com
Preferred Contact Method: Email

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