Belf's Romanian Orchestra - Zeit Lustik (classic klezmer)

From KlezmerShack:
Belf's Romanian Orchestra, aka "Rumynski Orkestr Belfa" aka "Rumanian Orchestra under the Direction of Kapellmeister V. Belf". About all we know about this is that they now appear to have been Ukrainian, and recorded some wonderfully florid klezmer tunes that continue to be prized. The 30-some sides also comprise the largest block of early recorded European Klezmer."

http://www.yidnstl.com/belfsmusic.html
Here is a site that hosts mp3s by Belf's Romanian Orchestra.

Note that the photo is not of belf's orchestra, but of the faust orchestra.

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[Romanisipunctum]

@papspace Good morning, In Hungary, Poland and Russia/Ukraine, the urban Jewish populations were condensed in neighborhoods segregated by ethnic boundaries, and the more reformed Jews left for more blended jobs with the natives. Also, in the villages of these countries, the Shtetl was integrally Jewish and existing side by side with the natives. In Romania, however, both in the cities and in the villages, there were no compact Jewish areas, but essentially amalgamated communities with natives.

[papspace]

@Romanisipunctum . Umm, there weren't any 'ghettos' as you call them in Russia, Ukraine, Poland or Hungary. There were just Jewish communities, or 'shtetlech', small towns and villages with a high number of Jewish inhabitants, which had Jewish institutions like the synagogue, ritual bath, study houses. Jews lived in close everyday contact with the Christian population: as neighbors, business partners, clients, fellow students and so on. Ghettos were instituted by the Germans invaders in 1940.

[Romanisipunctum]

Thank you for posting Belf's Romanian Orchestra's repertoire of great Romanian songs: doina, hora, joc and sarbas. They performed Romanian folklore from the North-East.. After the Ribbentroff-Molotov tearing apart of Europe, still today, some of these historically Romanian regions were and stayed occupied by the Russian/Ukrainean forces. But the main population is Romanian and the Jewish community was intertwined with the Romanians (no ghettos, like in Russia, Ukraine,Poland and Hungary).