THE GOLDEN PEACOCK -
The Voice of the Yiddish Writer

A unique spoken word CD featuring 10 Yiddish Writers

The Goldene Pave (Golden Peacock) cd

Yankev Glatshteyn, Celia Dropkin, H. Leivick, Aron Glanz-Leyeles, Yente Mash, Kadya Molodowsky, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Sholem Aleichem, Yekhiel Shraibman, Avrom Sutzkever – reading from their poetry and prose

The CD is accompanied by 2 booklets with:

  • Complete Yiddish text
  • Notes on each work in English
  • Glossary in Transliteration
  • English, Hebrew, & Russian Bibliography
  • Biography of each writer in English and Yiddish

TO ORDER: Cost $25.00

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Author biographies 1 of Golden Peacock Author biographies 2 of Golden Peacock

WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT THE GOLDEN PEACOCK


For those who, like me, learned their Yiddish from books, this remarkable CD is nothing short of astonishing. Sholem Aleichem, H. Leivick, Kadya Molodowky and so many more - these distant voices have the power to stir us still.

Aaron Lansky, President
National Yiddish Book Center

The Golden Peacock has taken wing. Thanks to Sheva Zucker, it has crossed over the abysses of time and has brought back to life the voice of poets and prose writers whom few of us have ever heard, or of living writers whom we haven't heard often enough. Some of these recordings are revelatory. Dropkin's incantationary recital has the power of a Russian modernist seance. Molodowsky's Olke is revealed to be a masterpiece parading in children's clothes. And Sholem Aleichem talks a mile a minute, like one of his own beloved characters.

David G. Roskies, Prof. of Jewish Literature,
Jewish Theological Seminary

HERE SOON: GOLDEN PEACOCK - Yiddish/English Version!

GOLDEN PEACOCK: PROGRAM

1YIDDISH INTRODUCTION

(Sheva Zucker, Music: DI ZUN VET ARUNTERGEYN (The Sun Will Set) (Moyshe Leyb Halperin, Music: Ben Yomen)

2ENGLISH INTRODUCTION

(Sheva Zucker, Music: DI ZUN VET. . .)

YANKEV GLATSHTEYN

3Music: VIGLID (Lullaby) Glatshteyn, Music: Sidor Belarsky

41919 (1919)

5FUN KINDER-TSIMER (From the Nursery): A YINGELE UN A ZEMELE (A Boy and a Roll)

6ZEYGER UN MAME (Clock and Mommie)

7A GUTE NAKHT, VELT (Good Night, World)

8VEGENER (Wagons)

9VI FLATERLEKH (dtke Moths)

CELIA DROPKIN

10Music: ES VILT ZIKH MIR ZEN (I'd Like to See) Dropkin, Music: Frank London

11ESTERN (TSU A TOKHTER) (For Esther) To a Daughter))*

12AF DAYN GOLDN KEPELE (A VIG-LID) (On Your Little Golden Head (A Lullaby)

13VAYS VI DER SHNEY (White as the Snow)

14TSEPRALTE HENT FUN BEYMER (DURKH NAKHT UN REGN)

(Outspread Arms of Trees (Through Night and Rain)

15A LIBE-BRIV (A Love Letter)

16BAY NAKHT IN EKSKURSHON-TRAIN (ZINGT DI BAN A LID)

(At Night in the Excursion Train (The Train Sings a Song)

17SHVERE GEDANKEN (Heavy Thoughts)

H. LEIVIK

18Music: LEYG DAYN KOP (Lay Your Head) Leivick, Music: L. Birnov

19YIDISHE POETN (Yiddish Poets)

20KOVED, GELE LATE! (Respect, Yellow Patch!)

ARN GLANZ-LEYELES

21Music; NYU-YORK (New York) Leyeles, Music: Mikhl Gelbart

22DOS LID FUN LIDER (The Song of Songs)

23DER GOT FUN YiSROYEL (The God of Israel)

KADYA MOLODOWSKY

24Music: YERUSHOLAYIM (Jerusalem) Molodowsky, Music:: Bernardo Feuer

25EYL KHANON (God of Mercy)

26YERUSHOLAYIM (Jerusalem)

27OLKE (Olke)

YENTE MASH

28Music: S'LOYFN, S'YOGN SHVARTSE VOLKN

(Black Clouds Race and Rush) Hirsh Dovid Nomberg

29-33BROYT (Bread) (Short Story)

AVROM SUTZKEVER

34Music: UNTER DAYNE VAYSE SHTERN

(Under Your White Stars) Sutzkever, Music: Avrom Brudno

35DER SHMEYKHL FUN MAYDANEK (The Smile of Maidanek)

36VER VET BLAYBN (Who Will Remain)

SHOLEM ALEICHEM

37Music: SHLOF, MAYN KIND

(Sleep, My Child) Sholem Aleichem, Music: Dovid Kovanovsky

38BAGRISUNG, PETERBARG, 1914 (Greetings, St. Petersburg, 1914)

39VEN IKH BIN RODSHILD (If I Were Rothschild)

40A FREYLEKHN YON-TEV (A Happy Holiday)

BEYLE SCHAECHTER-GOTTESMAN

41Music: HARBSTLID (Autumn Song) Schaecther-Gottesman

42MAYN KHAVERTE MINTSYE (My Friend Mintsye)

43ZILBER SHTERN (Silver Stars)

YEKHIEL SHRAYBMAN

44Music: KESHENEVER SHTIKELE (Kishinev Tune) Folksong

45-47MAYN FOTER (My Father)

48Music: DI ZUN VET ARUNTERGEYN (The Sun Will Set)

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