Poppuri

[YonaArieFeinberg]

Great song!

[varda888]

You are the Best.

[normx9]

איך טאָן ניט וויסן אויב דעם יאַט איז טעאַטראַל אָדער נאָר אַ פּאַץ. אָבער די פּאָופּורי פון לידער זענען מעכייַע. דאַנקען פֿאַר דעם פּאָסטן

[mitzvatO]

somebody has the lyrics in yidish?

[julevt]

G-d bless Israel

[aleks0459]

Здоровья на долгие годы!

[lsophial]

No insults please! In fact i love my animals more than i love humans!

[lsophial]

I love you and your music!

[mcfrdmn]

Another wonderful performance by Efim Aleksandrov

[zafff13]

vunderbar

[BAS7677]

The shows are pure "Kitch" the songs are killed by his rendering and the scenes are like taken from a circus. He should have taken some lessons from Theodore Bickel or have been listening to Lebdeff and learn.

Peolple in this country would not pay a dollar to see this clown

[GalaProfi]

@BAS7677

Clown? So it's fine. Better to be a clown than an animal like you.

[YiddishCat]

Spectacular!!



[leonleibe]

MIR ZAINEN BLOIZ VEINIKE REDN YDISH IN DIS WELT ZEYER SHEINE LIDER

[lsophial]

Lovely!

Thank You

[tashkent42]

Excellent!

[TheMuniequita]

Wonderful to hear all these songs from the parents home|!!!

Back to the childhood!

[bizmompb]

Wonderful Yiddish Music

[mk181818]

Спасибо, великолепный клип.

[GalaProfi]

На сайте Ефима Александрова efimalexandrov.ru открылся форум, на котором можно задать Ваш вопрос артисту.

[fatkenny123]

нет слов что делает этот человек большое спасиба!!!!! браво!!!

[GalaProfi]

On Efim Aleksandrov site efimalexandrov.ru now there is an English page

[GalaProfi]

On Efim Aleksandrov site efimalexandrov.ru now there is an English version

[VladislavGomulka]

Excellent song, but what a low class is the singer!!! Vulgar!

[attaragal1]

זה פשוט ענק אהבתי מאוד

ג.עטרה מכל הלב

[attaragal1]

JAST WONDERFUL

I LIKET IT VERY MUTSH

G ATTARA WITH OLL HART

[attaragal1]

צגניב אהבתי מאוד

ג.עטרה מכל הלב

[rikuski]

i like it very much

[kypckuu]

Молодец Фима! Жми дальше! К

[vivigel1]

כל הכבוד למוזיקה הזו... עברו שנים ודורות ועדין מרגש ומגיע עד הנשמה!!!!1

[PaulaBarchilon]

Absolutely beautiful and emotional.

[MrsGalaor]

On Efim Aleksandrova's site there is now an English version!

[TheKaiser48]

песни хорошие и популярные, но ему бы произношение сначала поставить, такое ощущение что он не на ИДИШ поет, а по-русски ??? хорошее произношение надо обязательно , иначе слух режет.

[LeonardMIS]

Эр редт азой ви а литвак ойф бухшпрах мыт а русишер акцент. Прозноношение так себе, но довольно четкое. Всё  перекрывается прекрасным исполнением.

[MrsGalaor]

@MrsGalaor On Efim Aleksandrova's site there is now an English version!

[1AKA123]

Не сочтите за предвзятость, но по-моему его место где-нибудь во второсортном ресторане, но никак не на центральном телевидении. Неужели других исполнителей еврейской песни не нашлось для этого концерта?

[MrsGalaor]

L'estimation négative du dernier commentaire prouve seulement qu'aucune estimation ne sera pas digne de ce grand artiste.

[LeonardMIS]

Зачем так жёстко совсем неплохо. а где других в России найти?

[MrsGalaor]

Efim Aleksandrov - l'artiste, qui possède le talent immense. Il offre la vie aux belles chansons dans une belle langue l'yiddish et prolonge la vie aux spectateurs et les auditeurs.

[MrsGalaor]

Efim Aleksandrov - l'artiste, qui possède le talent immense. Il offre la vie aux belles chansons dans une belle langue l'yiddish et prolonge la vie aux spectateurs et les auditeurs.

[arkadvajjs]

Спасибо! Хотелось бы самому побывать на концерте.

[rajelnahon]

wonderfull!

[chokar123]

Ich weiss es: Brennt Undzer Stedl...

Ein bisschen traurig.

Gruess aus England.

[AbmroseOrthodontics]

This is very refreshing to see.

[aldigast]

he sings amazing :D

its sad that there arent any other artist like him..

[27173929]

Am Israel hai!!!

[MrLev66]

Great to hear and see such a beautiful performance being performed.

[eugenic14]

someday Russia will be free :)))

[videomusic4]

Great! So love the Yiddish language especially the music. Those are the

C D's I play mostly in my car. Thanks to my American born parents for this love.

[eugenevos]

Yefim Alexandrov - singer of Jewish mestechko in his Moscow concert. As you can see most of the troop dancers, and probably most of the audience are ethnic Russians. Alexandrov (real name Zitserman) is honored artist of Russian Federation

[TheShurik93]

Yes, his dancing troop are the Russians, but most of the audiance I'm sure are ethnic Russia/Ukrainian Jews, not the Slaves... Would you go to a concert that sing in Chinese?

[eugenevos]

You may be right that most of the audience are Russian Jews, I do not know, I know that in Russia now is popular to be a Jew (antisemitism is still popular too). And, BTW, do you think that majority of Russian Jews know/understand Yiddish? Anyway, great performance!

[TheShurik93]

I dont know the facts, but I know that alot of Russian Jews do not know Yiddish, or at least cant speak, maybe they know certainn common words. Those jews that came from smaller cities, towns, villages they know, because they heard how their parenets spoke the language. Look at Iosif Kobzon, he is a Jew, originally from Ukraine, but he does not Yiddish. The larger city, the less chance for Soviet jews to know the language. Unfortunately.

[7inga7]

Great! This sure brings back memories. Thank you!

[TheShurik93]

Efim is a very talented guy. I attended one of his concerts. For those who don't know he was a comedican with another jew Vladimir Vinokur.

Yidish as a language is dying in Russia and the rest of former USSR. People study Hebrew more.

[salveviva]

Hebrew is not yiddisch

[TheShurik93]

of course Hebrew is not Yiddish. What I meant was that jewish schools in Russian they teach Hebrew not Yidish.

[micar43]

micar

took meback to the songs of my grandparents.

Most enjoyable. Yiddish is still flourishing-see National yiddisn bookcenter.

[jkalexander1]

I was very happy to see that the jewish traditions and the Yidish language is well and alive in Russia.

[cockneydoll]

This is a good pure Yiddish, that I was raised on by my grandparents, who came from the Ukraine and Poland

Yiddish has been totally destroyed in the US

[lustre5]

Some Yinglish is better than nisht.

[stanmen]

Great Production, and fantastic size.

I don't know who's ( bigred997 ) is but I can tell you Neshama or Neshama, where can you find productions in Yedish of this size?, NE, NE ZUG MERE shulem alaichem

[cbg144man]

I wish my russian grandmother who came to the US at age 8 could see this. We are survivers as a people.

[bigred997]

this is a very sanitized, lame, broadway style representation of yiddish culture, there is no neshama to the performance. in fact there is more in Julie Andrew's Jewish Wedding scene in Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Compare this to the real yiddish performers on film in the 1930's.

[saradramo]

esas canciones me recuerdan mucho mi niñez,y bobe solia cantarmelas,es exraordinario que hoy con la computadora lo pueda recordar y cantar a mis nietos

[FBreal1948]

I regret until this day that I do not know Yddish... Saradramo I can make the same ass your comments... those Yddishe songs recall my childhood, my bobele, my zaider, my mother, the evenings of Pessach seider, etc...

[JOLEDETZ]

EL yeide y la bobe muy importantes en la transmision de la TRADICION ORAL jUDIA, la riqueza de sus tradiciones, el aroma de sus comidas y el orgullo de EL PERTENECER. ellos me llevabana ver teatro judio con artistas que venian en de Estados Unidos o argentinos Las canciones judias de ese entonces y muchas canciones describen nostalgicamente los pueblos casi todos desaparecidos victimas despiadadas de los progroms. Los Nazis dieron un golpe casi definitivO

[HAZIDEAD]

Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[luciafulful]

Excelente, una caricia para el alma.

Me hace recordad mi niñez con mis padres , babe y sheide

Gracias

[Cilly1947]

Der rebe Elimelech un di andere lider zenen vunderbar!

Zei dermonen mir maine kinder yurn!

Cilly

[kharkov1000]

Great show!!

[manbraun]

Muy bueno! zeir gut,!! , very good, tov meod, ect etc

[jetra507]

Great clip. I wonder in what context it was done. Was this an otherwise Jewish concert? Who sponsored it, Chabad maybe? The audience looks very young. ?Does this represent some kind of trend in Russia?

[ronnerandall]

I doubt very much whether any of the performers are Jewish, and this would certainly not be a Chabad event! To me it looks like part of the current trend in Eastern European countries (notably Poland, but maybe it's happening in Russia too) to "reclaim" their "lost" Jewish "heritage." As the daughter of Polish Jews, whose family was decimated by the Holocaust - this makes me quite uneasy, however lovely it all looks. It makes me feel as if my precious heritage is being devalued and "Disneyfied"

[abbanator]

If what you say is true and it looks as though it could be, I join you in feeling sickened that these people were all too quick to help us into the ovens and now they have some sort of nostalgic longings??!!?? To HELL with them . Am Yisrael chai!!

[TeachESL]

What do you mean "these people??" Who are you referring to??

[abbanator]

what do I mean? The non-Jews...particularly the eastern Europeans who jeered and clapped while the Jews they'd had as neighbors were carted away in trucks by the Nazi's. The Children and grand-children of those people barely without exception, today criticize Israel under the guise of being in disagreement with the state of Israel. For most of them it's the same old Jew hatred. That's whom I'm referring to. Any questions?

[TeachESL]

I meant who in the video are "these people." The audience?? You think the audience is made up of non-Jews?

[HAZIDEAD]

Absolutely not Chabad. They would never sponsor a completely secular event in a mixed audience. No hint of Yiddishkeit here...

[MrNewman07]

WOW! Thanks for posting it... this songs reminded me my great uncle Misha's singing...Thanks a lot...

[megustanlasimagenes]

Divine  ! Never heart a so splendid show, wonderful !

[tallula3]

Boy we are a talented bunch. My heritage is Russian and I can remember my "zayde" singing these songs. I miss these times. Thanks Russian Jews for bringing it back .

[marilyn3171935]

I loved it ... brought back lots of memories. My father took me to the National Theater in NYC on Delancy Street when I was a child and loved all the comics, the music and WOW, it made my day. Marilyn

[alwatsky]

Great ! A Russian style presentation for their media to broadcast. Its a good thing.

There are events in Moscow, big ones.

Broadcasts.

Speeches

I attended/performed at one in the Kremlin !

Amazing !

Lets hope a time comes for

Jewish life to return to Russia.

An end to anti-semitic thought and act.

[tallula3]

Here' to you!

[OrangeSpam]

What are you talking about? What are these anti-semitic thoughts and acts you are referring to? And what kind of a return would you like?

[THEPHYLLIS]

Absolutely marvelous, brings back such wonderful memories. I can still see my grandparents and great-grandparents listening to music like this on the old Victrola. Thank you,

Phyllis Silverman Delaney

[1919Michsel]

Das ist wunderschön. Danke für die schöne Musik

[Sumerbabe]

This is great!!

Stop fighting over yiddish!! Shesh!!

Anyway, like i said, amazing!!

[MIRULIA18]

What is the difference, the most important thing is that it is 1005 yIDDISH. I forwarded it to all my friends from many countries. Enjoy it, don't look for percetages !!!

[support1959]

yiddish iz zeer git shprache. a git shabes

[chelorec]

Oy, Vey!!! two jews - tree opinions?? Com'on brothers - chill out!

However, on positive side, I relly enjoyed the discussion - "ancient group of Warrior Tribes" and

"they didn't believe that anyone could actually be that evil, or do what they said they would -- just look at the Jewish vote in the recent election. Jews always "hope" for the best -- it rarely comes".

Thank you for your passion,

Ame Yisroel Chai!!

[captbill98]

Pure Yiddish--if there is such a thing--is 40% Hebrew, probably another 40% German, and 35% other languages. For those of you who are counting, like having children the Yiddish speaking Jews of today overdo anything and everything because they think that a Pogrom is right around the corner. Yiddish is the language of the Shtetl, and the Yeshiva, and even today it survives in classrooms of progressive Universities all over the world.

Am Yisrael Chai, aval b' ivrith, lo b'iddish.

[mrf408]

Yiddish is 11% Hebrew, and is not an offshoot of German, but a sister language, both having come from Mittl- hoch Deutsch.

[captbill98]

That is strange. My German born Hebrew Teacher, who was the Principal of a major High School in Beersheva, told me the figures I quoted.

Where do you get these ideas you put forth?

[MartaRetik]

It`s Ydissh, my parents song to me when i was a child, marvellous, lo mir ale singnen.....

Marta from Argentina

[computernerd4]

Great to see that our culture is still alive- I always here stories from my grandmother about what a huge family we had before the Holocost and Chyrnoble disaster and how songs like this were just a part of everyday life- people would sing, dance, eat and drink daily

[avatarofsound]

so very true

[rtresman]

Wonderful to see and hear this. The language of the Six Million Murdered is still alive.

BUT, it is the language of "The Jewish Victim".

For the fashionable anti-Israel protesters, students, journalists, politicians (how many of them bought with Arab Money) this is the only Jew that is acceptable to them.

[themayblums]

This is a great video. I was born in USA and living in Florida as a modern Jew but understand every word...This is the living proof that we will not be exterminated. Am Yisrael Chai.Evelyn and Marty

[irena18899]

Огромное удовольствие и большое спасибо!

[tweedlededee]

this is a treasure! what a beautiful heritage they left us....too bad they wanted to assimilate so much, and the yiddush got diluted so that we understand only a few words and expressions....

[clasicblack]

They did not want to assimilate, they were FORCED to; even the once that looked like they wanted to, they regretted it and we have to pray for them.

[mrf408]

The great part about this video is not the singer and his kitchy medley, but the back-up. The size of the orchestra, chorus and dance troupe for a Yiddish performance is amazing.

[captbill98]

Surely you jest. You can buy anything for money--including a whole host of dancers and musicians.

[mrf408]

The thing about Yiddish is not only the breadth of its literature, and the depth of its feeling and warmth, but that it was an identifier and unifier of a great body of the Jewish people. Although we were excited by the thought of reviving and using the traditional, ancient language of the Jewish people, by making it a modern, international language, used by Arabs, Christians, Japanese, and many other people, it no longer distinguishes us as Jews. You may find this admirable; I find it sad.

[captbill98]

To say that using Hebrew "...no longer distinguishes us as Jews" is just plain wrong. It distinguishes us as no longer being "Shtetl Jews", but identifies us as modern Jews who have their own land, have great pride in what we have built in Israel, and will never again walk docilely into a Cyanide Shower or a cattle car to be transported to our death. We come from an ancient group of Warrior Tribes, and once again we can be proud of our strength and our heritage, AND our connection to G-d.

[mrf408]

I agree with your emotion and characterization of the Warrior Jew. However, in your label of "shtetl Jew", you belittle the efforts of the Jewish resistance movements, and the power of the German propaganda machine. The Jews were not too meek to resist; but they didn't believe that anyone could actually be that evil, or do what they said they would -- just look at the Jewish vote in the recent election. Jews always "hope" for the best -- it rarely comes.

[captbill98]

Nonsense! You try to attribute things to me that I never said or implied. Don't. And don't tell me about the resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto. Warsaw was not a shtetl.

Shtetl jews were not the ones who formed the Jewish resistance to the Nazis. They were too meek to resist, and too stubborn to accept the smells coming from the chimneys where everyone was being cremated, or too stupid like goats following the Judas goat.

Don't tell me about shtetl jews--my grandparents were from a shtetl. I know.

[SenseOfMission]

Gotenyu! Sure wish I had any idea what he's saying! Wow, this is so cool!

[byxlaw]

antisemitishe chutzpadnyak

[chaity1]

Vi zokt men 'kitsch' af Yiddish?

[rosey19421942]

Wonderful! Made me take out my old albums by Aaron Lebedeff and the Barry Sisters.

[1935and1942]

Just a real pleasure. Makes you smile; makes you tear up.

Thanks so much....

[chedreite]

this my bobe and yeide heritage. The tradition must be go on in memory of thouthans jewish people who died for only be a jewish

[tonypro132]

when i was a teenager my best friend who was a polish jew taught his balck girlfriend enough yiddish to convince his parents she was a ethiopian jew,lol funny thing i ever saw

[star1836]

When I was a child in England, my beloved grandfather taught me to speak Yiddish so I would know what my parents were saying about me.

[runwalkerrun]

When my parents were alive they spoke yiddish to each other but only English to us, so although we learned many words but not how to converse. My father who had a voice like a chasen of eastern europe Would be nice for them to put English subtitles--For those who have negative feelings about this should reach back into their history and enjoy this little bit of the past.

[elkie1115]

I can't believe that everyone is so judgmental. Why can't everyone just enjoy? After all, at this point, with Yiddish dying out, anyplace you can see or hear some Yiddish, then that is a plus!!!

[tamifarhi]

ביצוע יפה מאד

[madaunt1]

I enjoyed this - Performers like this bring me back to very happy days of childhood growing up spending the summers in the catskills as my family was in the entertainment industry I fondly remember many shows with these songs and how how it made the elder audience to hear Yiddish. I only wish I would have been taught to speak fluently growing up. My generation should have been taught so that we could teach the next generation. Yiddish is slowly becoming a language of the past.........

[mishuginah]

wonderful music and dancing brings back memories of my grandparents who taught me yiddish What a wonderful thing to hear and see something yiddish from the Ukraine

[atothez95]

Enjoyed it very much!

[bigred997]

The singing is ok but doesn't have the neshama in the voice. the dancing is an embarassment. you don't put a full orchestra to yiddish songs, but a klezmer group. this is way overblown to generate the true feeling. check out the real yiddish singers of 50 to 100 years ago. sorry.

[Kenaik1]

You did not have to pick on everything negative like you flick a chicken. Shame on you, that you could not simply enjoy. Do you make a living by being a music critic? So he isn't like the singers of long ago. My mother was from Ukraine and said to me that they threw tomatoes at the singers who displeased them.

[bigred997]

i'm not a music critic. but i have my own tastes. this is artificial. i guess if i had a russian ear for music, it would sound good to me. the youtube concept is that if you post something, people have the right to comment. there are many things i like and i rate them high and also give good comments.

[ahsir9]

I was immediately transported to my late mother and my heart was thrilled. Is there a tape available in the USA?

[bakenrot]

there is his disk in Israel?

[bakenrot]

where we can buy Disk of this singer?

b

[balkvic]

perhaps in the internet. In russian internetshops. but abroad ? i am not sure...

[LomomVYxo]

His mane is Efim Alexandrov, he is from little village in Ukraine

[kukstejn]

super, massel tov für den interpreten

[alexukraine69]

i know thos guy in real lyfe hes a family friend :)

[ilaniaabileah]

Wish I could hear the whole song...but with a telephone hook up it does not come well. Anyway BRAVO and thank you.

[toastypoo666]

It brought back such fond memories from my childhood.  I loved it.

[BostonBoldMan]

Yes, pleasure for the ears and the soul

Nice choreography,music arrangement and interpretation, It doesn't get any better.

A lot of class. If this is not excellent than what is.

Moniek F.

[DisneyStar123]

My Father would have "qveldt" from this music.He loved the Yiddish of his parents and he adored the yiddishe music! Thank you

for the memories....

[Israelz]

..."gekvelt"

:-)

[isaacwajntraub]

This is one of the best video poppuri in yiddish I have ever heard. It`s beautiful that artists still keep singing in this beautiful language. Congratulations !!!!

[guauguau6]

Yiddish language shall overcome!

Long life to yiddish forever!

Thanks for posting!

[YOENE1]

THE BEST  VIDEO I EVER HEARD IN YIDISH

[elanayael]

Fantastic!!! Truly a pleasure for the ears and the soul! The medley just shows how much life there was in the Yiddish speaking wolrd before its destruction, and as a Yiddishist and Hebraist both, I truly believe we can now embrace all the languages of our people with love and honor. Really wonderful!

[parkesna]

love it,love it,love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Joliemaman007]

TERRIBLE.  J'adore. I love. ANI OEVET MEOD !!!

[moraviaguy]

Fabulous. Has this show been released on DVD?

[balkvic]

Yes. you can buy the DVD in internet . Just look for it in google - "Efim Alexandrov" !

[Joliemaman007]

I cannot find it; any direct link to the DVD please? I too am interested in getting the DVD.

Thanks

Joliemaman007

[MateleIV]

Maravilloso! Wonderful to listen to the "mame loshn". Can anyone of you provide me with the lyrics?

[balkvic]

In what language ? in yiddish,english or russian ? In russian you can find yiddish songs- it means :the yiddish words in russian spelling.

In yiddish you willn't find anything,because view people in the world can speak yiddish, and just a little part of them can write and read in yiddish !

[balkvic]

Perhaps you will find something in english ?

I don't really know ! sorry !

[MateleIV]

in yiddish or yiddish in english or spanish phonetics.there´s a yiddish revival! more and more people are studying yiddish nowadays.

pity there´s no lessons in Paraguay.

[gajaybird]

there are several songs here. did you want any one in particular or all of 'em? Lyrics in Yiddish, or translated into English?

[sinaia1]

מרגש!!!

[HAL6474]

great !!!!

[tatop1]

Excelente.

[bakenrot]

זמר מיוחד,שמימי ,קול ענק,רגישות לתוכן,מזיל דימעה,נזכרתי בבית הורי וכולי הוקרת תודה לשירה המיוחדת והנפלאה שחוויתי הערב

היכן ניתן לרכוש את התקליטורים?

[balkvic]

I see: it was a question. But i don't understand hebraw.

[maulieber]

No existe otro idioma como el idish. Los nazis lograron matar 6 millones de judios y CASI destruir la cultura ashkenazi, sin embargo hoy en Tel Aviv funciona el teatro Idishpil, siempre con teatros llenos. Hace muchos anos lo han matado al idish, sin embargo, sigue vivito y coleando....AM ISRAEL AND IDISH CHAY!

[albertdiner]

Este show tipo Yiddish Music Hall se presento

en Moscu. Es un show tipo Broadway o tipo

Olympia de Paris. Las canciones yiddish fueron

traducidas a otros idiomas, pero pierden su

idiosincrasia. Solo funcionan en yiddish.

[sheldonkagan]

Do you know where this production took place & is there any plans for this show to go on tour in Canada?

[balkvic]

On the internetsite of Efim Aleksandrov i didn't find any information about his tour in 2007-2008!

[ahleap18]

Gostei muito. Sensacional a interpretação e a coreografia.

[polemicaycafe]

I love Idish................

[paulostroff99]

vip348-what does drthjf mean,please?

[albertdiner]

A huge yiddish production. All the classic

yiddish songs. great. Please give us more

details . Does it take place every year?

[marianakoif]

IT IS WONDERFULL. Congratulations.

[vip348]

drthjf