Performed and taught by Sarah Myerson at YNY 2021, based on the recording by Diana Blumenfeld (1906-61) at the Hotel Marseilles in New York City, 1948, for the Ben Stonehill archive.
English translation by Sarah Myerson and Ethel Raim
In the cold winter nights 
My grandmother, my old one, used to
Tell a world through stories,
And I heard and swelled with pride
How to the rabbi, the pious one,
Used to come on Shabbes 
Angels from heaven [came along],
And the rabbi’s wife used to give
The angels and our rabbi
Peppered fish with horseradish.
And I myself haven’t seen this,
It happened years ago,
I heard about it from my grandma,
And my grandma from my great-grandma,
I didn’t make it up,
I only heard about it from my grandma.
To the rabbi the pious one,
Hasidim used to come.
The feast was very big,
Like at the Caesar's house,
The nights one use to see
How by the rabbi there was
Reb Moses, our dear little rabbi,
And the rebetsin used to host
Apart from her old righteous one,
Elijah the Prophet as a guest.
And I myself haven’t seen this...
In the difficult times,
During the time of the big plague
It is told that the rabbi did a feat;
How he saved them from the sickness,
The sickness he drove away;
He used to sit and write
The landowner in heaven, quickly,
He who yesterday was sleeping,
Until the plague ran away
And it took the rabbi along.
And I myself haven’t seen this...

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