Name: Fun Kosev biz Kitev by YIVO Sound Archive
Duration: 2 min 31 s
Description: Yiddish folk song honoring the founder of Hasidism, the Baal Shem Tov, and the towns he lived in. Feygl Yudin with unidentified group. Recorded by Ruth Rubin in New York City in 1967. Ruth Rubin Collection RG 620 Tape 97 (Miscellaneous IX), song 8. Photo detail from video of performance presented by the Balkan Arts Center, now the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, New York, 1978.

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

Yiddish folk song honoring the founder of Hasidism, the Baal Shem Tov, and the towns he lived in. Feygl Yudin with unidentified group. Recorded by Ruth Rubin in New York City in 1967. Ruth Rubin Collection RG 620 Tape 97 (Miscellaneous IX), song 8. Photo detail from video of performance presented by the Balkan Arts Center, now the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, New York, 1978.

Fun Kosev biz Kitev

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