{"product_id":"771352-3","title":"Various - Greatest Songs of the American Yiddish Theater Vol. 3 [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGREAT SONGS OF THE YIDDISH STAGE, VOL. 3 About American Yiddish Theatrical  Songs  The selections here derive from the  medium of popular Yiddish theatrical song that, beginning in the 1880s,  flourished for more than six decades as mass-oriented entertainment among large  segments of eastern European Yiddish-speaking immigrant generations and their  immediate American-born offspring. Although this aggregate medium came to  embrace Yiddish film and radio as well as Jewish recordings, all of which  generated on their own a large repertoire of popular Yiddish songs originally  independent of live stage productions, nearly all the songs considered here  have their genesis in live formats of two principal types, notwithstanding the  popularity of subsequent recordings and broadcasts. One medium considered here is the American  Yiddish Musical Theater, now more commonly known generically as Second  Avenue, so named after the lower Manhattan district (today geographically  identifiable as the East Village) where it made its debut and gained its first  audiences, and where its most important and prestigious theaters stood at the  zenith of that cultural phenomenon. Satellite theaters and companies—eventually  often no less important—radiated and flourished as well during that era in  other boroughs of New York City and across North America in cities with  significant Yiddish-speaking populations, such as Philadelphia, Boston,  Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Montreal. New York–based troupes  toured as well, bringing Yiddish theater to many additional communities. Songs in this category are from  full-length theatrical productions based on plays or dramatic scenarios that  were variously called operettas, musical comedies, romantic musicals,  melodramas, musical shows, or simply musicals. These are to be distinguished  from several other more literary Yiddish theatrical forms with less sustained  and less widely appreciated, but nonetheless culturally significant life in America:  serious Yiddish drama, Yiddish art theater, and Yiddish political theater  (ARTEF).  The other live format was Yiddish  Vaudeville, played in music halls and variety houses, whose introduction  preceded indigenous full-scale Yiddish theater in America. Vaudeville ranged  from individual songs, dance routines, and comic monologues to skits, revues,  and even one-act sketches and playlets. * * * The American Yiddish musical theater  was a powerful product of the immigrant experience, and it became a highly  successful import to Europe, England, South Africa, and South America. During  its peak years, many of its leading stage personalities were virtual folk  heroes among certain segments of American Jewish society. The musical forms, conventions, and  styles of Second Avenue, especially as it advanced toward its mature stage,  grew out of and relied heavily on Viennese and other Central European light  operetta traditions. But its composi\u003cp\u003eMayn Goldele\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifty-Fifty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn A Kleyn Shitbele\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOy, Iz Dos A Meydl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEs Tsit, Es Brit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHamavdil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Brivele Der Mamen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatch Your Step!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGot Un Zayn Mishpet Iz Gerekht\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHu-Tsa-Tsa - Jorge Mester\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOyb S'iz Geven Gut Far Mayn Mamen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDu Bist Dos Likht Fun Mayne Oygn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShma Yisro'el\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Bisl Libe Un A Bisl Glik\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDir A Nikl, Mir A Nikl - Jorge Mester\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShloymele Malkele\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55730269913473,"sku":"771352","price":14.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/61kqrDiFTPL._SL1500_ed007930-7fec-42f4-b822-1207bf6bf4d8.jpg?v=1779901149","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/771352-3","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}