1. By the wayside stands a tree
   /Oyfn veg shteit a boim [6.08] (Itzik Manger)
2. Rabbi Motenyu
   /RebMotenyu [5.07] (Samuel Bugatch/Aaron Zeitlin)
3. Beneath the little green trees
   /Unter di grininke beymelekh [4.25] (Platon G. Brounoff/Chaim Nachmen Bialik)
4. What will happen when the Messiah comes?
   /Voz vet zayn as Mosiakh vet kummen? [6.28] (Z. Kisselgof)
5. Our Father Abraham
   /Abraham Avinu [6.06] (A Spanish-Jewish folk song in Ladino)
6. At the fireplace
   /Oyfn pripetshik [4.59] (Words by Mark M. Warshawsky)
7. There once was a Jew
   /A mol iz geven a yid [5.41] (Ben Yomen)
8. Little Boots
   /Di Sapozhkelekh [ 4.25] (Collected by Michael Alpert from Ukraine)
9. Hi, Little goats
   /Hey, Tsigelekh [4.55] (Mordechai Gerbirtig)
10. Yidl with the fiddle
    /Yidl mitn fidl [1.50] (Abraham Ellstein/Itsik Manger)
11. The little Gipsy
    /A tsigaynerl [5.01] (Herb Rubin/Itsik Manger)
12. Moide Ani [3.32] (M. Schweid)
13. My childhood years
    /Kinderyorn [3.32] (Words by Mordechai Gebirtig)

Yiddish 'n Jazz (TMcCD 014)

Rebecka Gordon interprets a collection of old and traditional Yiddish songs with a tender and heartfelt feeling greatly supported by her co-musicians Claes von Heijne (p), Filip Augustson (b) and Gilbert Matthews (dr).

By the wayside stands a tree - Rabbi Motenyu - Beneath the little green trees - What will happen when the Messiah comes - Our Father Abraham - By the fireside - There once was a Jew - Little boots - Hi, little goats - Yidl with the fiddle - A little Gipsy - Morning prayer - My childhood years

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