- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Note on Place Names
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
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In Pre-War Poland The Badkhn: From Wedding Stage to Writing Desk - Remembrance of Things Past: Klezmer Musicians of Galicia, 1870‒1940
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Early Recordings of Jewish Music in Poland
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Jewish Theatre in Poland
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A Tuml in the Shtetl: Khayim Betsalel Grinberg’s Di khevre-kedishe sude
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Mordechai Gebirtig: The Folk Song and the Cabaret Song
- Simkhe Plakhte: From ‘Folklore’ to Literary Artefact
- Between Poland and Germany: Jewish Religious Practices in Illustrated Postcards of the Early Twentieth Century
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Papers for the Folk: Jewish Nationalism and the Birth of the Yiddish Press in Galicia
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Shund and the Tabloids: Jewish Popular Reading in Inter-War Poland
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Dos yidishe bukh alarmirt! Towards the History of Yiddish Reading in Inter-War Poland
- Exploiting Tradition: Religious Iconography in Cartoons of the Polish Yiddish Press
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After Life From ‘Madagaskar’ to Sachsenhausen: Singing about ‘Race’ in a Nazi Camp -
The Badkhn in Contemporary Hasidic Society: Social, Historical, and Musical Observations
- Transmigrations: Wolf Krakowski’s Yiddish Worldbeat in its Socio-Musical Context
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‘The Time of Vishniac’: Photographs of Pre-War East European Jewry in Post-War Contexts
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Repopulating Jewish Poland—in Wood
-
The Kraków Jewish Culture Festival
- Select Bibliography of Blejwas’s Works
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
Transmigrations: Wolf Krakowski’s Yiddish Worldbeat in its Socio-Musical Context
Transmigrations: Wolf Krakowski’s Yiddish Worldbeat in its Socio-Musical Context
- Chapter:
- (p.297) Transmigrations: Wolf Krakowski’s Yiddish Worldbeat in its Socio-Musical Context
- Source:
- Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 16
- Author(s):
Alex Lubet
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter examines Wolf Krakowski's legendary CD Transmigrations, which was the first example of Yiddish worldbeat. Transmigrations comprises principally secular songs, although these are at times referenced, as is nearly unavoidable in chronicles of Jewish life. Two songs, ‘Shabes, shabes’ and ‘Zol shoyn kumen di geule’ (Let the Redemption Come), are traditionally devotional, if non-liturgical. The songs that address the Holocaust and other Jewish suffering pose basic spiritual questions that Jews must ask, though not in formal prayer. In determining any music's Jewishness, lessons from the sacred repertoire of Judaism may be applied. On utilitarian grounds, all settings of sacred Hebrew texts for use in Jewish worship are Jewish music. This principle extends to all Yiddish song, since Jewish languages are tools of Jewish community. This includes all twelve songs on Transmigrations. Ultimately, Transmigrations—an album of Yiddish folk songs and works by Yiddish theatre and literary artists, its melodies forthrightly Jewish—defies expectations of Yiddish song in broader aspects of style.
Keywords: Wolf Krakowski, Transmigrations, Yiddish worldbeat, secular songs, Jewish life, Jewishness, Judaism, Jewish music, Yiddish song, Yiddish folk songs
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- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Note on Place Names
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
-
In Pre-War Poland The Badkhn: From Wedding Stage to Writing Desk - Remembrance of Things Past: Klezmer Musicians of Galicia, 1870‒1940
-
Early Recordings of Jewish Music in Poland
-
Jewish Theatre in Poland
-
A Tuml in the Shtetl: Khayim Betsalel Grinberg’s Di khevre-kedishe sude
-
Mordechai Gebirtig: The Folk Song and the Cabaret Song
- Simkhe Plakhte: From ‘Folklore’ to Literary Artefact
- Between Poland and Germany: Jewish Religious Practices in Illustrated Postcards of the Early Twentieth Century
-
Papers for the Folk: Jewish Nationalism and the Birth of the Yiddish Press in Galicia
-
Shund and the Tabloids: Jewish Popular Reading in Inter-War Poland
-
Dos yidishe bukh alarmirt! Towards the History of Yiddish Reading in Inter-War Poland
- Exploiting Tradition: Religious Iconography in Cartoons of the Polish Yiddish Press
-
After Life From ‘Madagaskar’ to Sachsenhausen: Singing about ‘Race’ in a Nazi Camp -
The Badkhn in Contemporary Hasidic Society: Social, Historical, and Musical Observations
- Transmigrations: Wolf Krakowski’s Yiddish Worldbeat in its Socio-Musical Context
-
‘The Time of Vishniac’: Photographs of Pre-War East European Jewry in Post-War Contexts
-
Repopulating Jewish Poland—in Wood
-
The Kraków Jewish Culture Festival
- Select Bibliography of Blejwas’s Works
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
