ISA KREMER sings in Yiddish !

It has been published that in 1922, on tour in Poland, Kremer, who was scheduled to sing Jewish songs in Warsaw, was the subject of an anti-Semitic riot. She told her version of events to Jessie Abrams of The Canadian Jewish Chronicle in a 1923 interview:
"A series of three concerts had been arranged for me at the Philharmonic, a
wonderful concert hall which had been built by a Jew and had then been presented by him to the city of Warsaw. When I arrived in Warsaw, my impresario told me that he had been forbidden to put any Jewish songs on the programme. I wanted to cancel the concerts but he begged me to think of all the expense he had one to. He was not a rich man, so I consented to carry out my contract.
There were many Jews at the concerts and they kept on asking for Jewish songs,
but I was helpless. At the third concert, Dr. Lepouner, a famous Polish Jew, jumped on the platform and asked me why I, a Jewess, was ashamed to sing Jewish songs. At first, I was a little bit frightened. Then I turned to the audience and told them all the truth. There was almost a riot.
The next day, Dr. Lepouner wrote to the newspapers, and wanted to know how such things could be in the free Republic of Poland. So much feeling was stirred up that finally the authorities consented to a fourth concert, in which Jewish songs would also be included. The night before the concert, ten thousand people gathered in front of the hall threatening to kill me. That was my last view of unhappy Poland. Do you wonder that I find America so wonderful?"
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My commentary:
At the time of 1922 concerts of Kremer in Poland, sheet music with her songs were widely published, her records with Yiddish repertoire were also advertised. This is not true what she used to say later that she never returned to Poland: in 1932/33 she made a series of recordings for Polish Columbia (Yiddish repertoire included).
The building of Warsaw Philharmonic was finished and opened as early as 1901 and "had been built" by a Polish architect, Karol Kozłowski.
"Ten thousand people(...) threatening to kill me" sounds like a pure nonsense of the Diva (if these were actually her words), especially in the light of the fact how freely Jewish culture was able to develop in pre-war Poland; some of my videos can be the proof hereof.

Photo: poster of Isa Kremer's concerts in Haifa, 1935.

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[vikibell2006]

Dzien dobry mam pytanie dlaczego te wszystkie piosenki sa jakies smutne ,chociaz bardzo ladne. czuje sie w nich rozpacz, zal, smutek

[jurek46pink]

@vikibell2006

Prosze uprzejmie najpierw sprecyzowac co znaczy "te wszystkie"...

[vikibell2006]

@jurek46pink

Dzien dobry sluchalam kilku piosenek na youtube sa piekne ,ale niestety smutne.

Piekne piosenki Zydowskie spiewa Justyna Steczkowska . Chcialabym zapytac dlaczego znak Rozy jest tak wazny dla Zydow a takze co oznacza jezeli ktos ma krzyz na plecach tzn. ma taki znak od urodzenia.Pozdrawiam

[jurek46pink]

@vikibell2006

Dzien dobry !

Wydaje mi sie, ze z takimi pytaniami to raczej nalezaloby sie zwrocic

do Zyda, ktory ma pojecie o wlasnej tradycji, obyczajach.

Ja skupiam sie bardziej na stronie muzycznej, chociaz nie tylko.

[tomx2ful]

@gibonspec Tu się w większości zgadzam. Piosenki często wyrażają smutek, bowiem nie było wesołe życie mas żydowskich w Polsce w okresie przed II wojną.

[beswick1111]

after reading bthe above do u goys realise why jews need israel as a homeland, as the goys cant be trusted to leave the jews alone as a minority.

[gibonspec]

Ej przepraszam że pytam ale jakoś nie bardzo rozumiem dlaczego wygłaszacie jakieś polityczne dodatki do piosenki

Zainteresował mnie język Jidisz i tylko tyle

Po co te historie o Michniku i jego kumplach oni nie mają z tym kawałkiem nic wspólnego.....To że okradli pare milionów Polaków w aferach FOZZ WGI i Interbrook + SOlorz + Czempiński + Bochiarz..itd.. itd..

NIe ma nic wspólnego z językiem jidisz..

do którego nic nie mam

[metyuewb]

Good reason for that, what do you think??? Poles are some of the moist antisemitic people in the world. One of the few countries where CIVILIANS TOOK ACTIVE PART IN MASSACRING AND BURNING JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST. So I hope that sounds evern nicer to your Polish ear.

[wintersong2]

Skoncentrujmy sie tu t y l k o na muzyce. Do polemik politycznych są inne fora. Atakowanie Jurka za antypolonizm - kompletnie nietrafione!

Propaguje on polską kulturę i sklania innych do szacunku wobec Polski, Polaków i polskości. Szukajcie wrogów, jeśli koniecznie tego chcecie, zupełnie gdzieindziej, ale nie w Jurku.