Tango "Rebeka" - full version - Zofia Terné !

Still I would call it Old Polish Tango although it is -- in text and music -- so Jewish. There were many songs composed in Poland in pre-war time meant for audience speaking Polish language, regardless their roots or ancestry. Some of them were picturing people, their habits and customs, according to Jewish tradition; no wonder, there were more than 3 millions Jews in the country on Vistula river.
Tango 'Rebeka' is not the only example of the kind, although seems to be the most popular: story of a poor girl, shop attendant in a small town, where one day a handsome and rich gentleman from 'great world', passing by, asks her for 'Ergo' product. She will not forget this visit and the image of 'the prince' -- as a love at first sight -- will haunt her all her life.
Before the war, a full text version was recorded only by Zofia Terné (1932). After the war the tango-song became a Polish standard recollecting times "when Jews were among us". Sung by such interpreters as Wanda Warska, Elżbieta Kępińska, Ewa Demarczyk, Sława Przybylska and many, many others.

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• Tango
• Rebeka
• Zofia
• Terné
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• Poland
• Jewish
• Yiddish
• 78rpm
• 1930s
• Nostalgia

[arktycznaa]

Uwielbiam tę piosenkę, szczególnie w wykonaniu Terne. Chwyta za serce ponieważ jest śpiewana z takim uczuciem, czuć autentyczność artystki. Szkoda, że dzisiaj w polskiej muzyce nie wraca się już do tak wspaniałych korzeni..

[jurek46pink]

@arktycznaa

Podzielam odczucia; one były podłożem decyzji o tej presentacji.

[MusiqueMonAmour]

Jak cudownie stara wymowa.

Zauwazyliscie, ze ona spiewa "w malEm miasteczku"?

perelka retro

[jurek46pink]

Rebeka, tu u mnie, pojawi się jeszcze raz w tej "cudownie starej wymowie" , w jeszcze jednym wykonaniu... -

[wolkowy1]

Thanks for uploading this charming song.

[zdunia72]

dziekuje! te piosenki sa piekne:)

[saffonia]

Reminds me of LIlly of the lamp light - bless the women before and in that war xx

And now the war is for oil, not land in the name of democracy, no farming friends, no villages hand in hand - my god just capitalism, my fathers wounds, my grandma and grandpa (Albert the Mayor my grandmother Sarah ) near Warsaw their death at the hands of the Nazis while Zbigniew (my father) and aunt Danuta looked on WHY? Why? Why?

[mariank4149]

@dzheger o,key mnie sie rowniez podoba, ale nie tylko ,sciska mnie za serce jak pomysle o tych ludziach ktorzy kochali tak pieknie , ktorzy czesto mieli tylko jedno: czyste serce , byli biedni ale bogaci uczuciem , byli delikatni

mieli marzenia , ktorzy chcieli po prostu zyc , a ktorym tego prawa odmowiono, plakac mi sie chce

[wieslawl59]

@mirrella11 Spiewa tez w malem miasteczku

[mirrella11]

@MusiqueMonAmour śpiewa, też sercem mem:)

[wieslawl59]

@weltstein The words are beautiful , too

[weltstein]

@dzheger I tend to agree with you definately cantorial, still very beatiful , dont understand the words .