Name: A Malke of Peisach by YIVO Sound Archive
Duration: 2 min 29 s
Description: First of two Passover songs coupled on Vocalion disc 14521 - A Malke of Peisach (A malke oyf Peysekh), words and music by Louis Gilrod. Aaron Lebedeff accompanied by the Abe Schwartz Orchestra, recorded NY February 1923. YIVO 78rpm disc collection 0729.

A 1998 cassette recording by The Vocal Quartet Lekhaim, Kazan, Tatarstan.
Polina Achkinazi (Shepherd) - voice, arrangements, piano. 
Leonid Akselroud - voice, guitar
Maria Achkinazi - voice
Tatyana Krasulina - voice

This cassette was recorded in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia in 1998 and was the first step for this group of music students into Jewish music. With very little access and almost now knowledge of this culture, the singers were discovering their heritage and just getting into the repertoire. Nevertheless, as one of the first emerging FSU “Klezmer Revival” projects, this recording already has something to say and was complimented by Frank London (New York) as “A remarkable group that is at the forefront of Jewish a capella singing.” Only in a few of years time, the vocal quartet with a new name Ashkenazim, having gone through intense learning and changes in personnel, was touring Europe and the US with their new Yiddish music.

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Ger nign performed by Ger Hasidim.
Recorded by Benedict Stambler, Brooklyn, NY circa 1960.
RG 1014, Benedict Stambler Memorial Collection of Jewish Music.
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, NY

Ger Nign

First of two Passover songs coupled on Vocalion disc 14521 - A Malke of Peisach (A malke oyf Peysekh), words and music by Louis Gilrod. Aaron Lebedeff accompanied by the Abe Schwartz Orchestra, recorded NY February 1923. YIVO 78rpm disc collection 0729.

A Malke of Peisach

YIVO Sound Archive

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