YIZKOR BOOK TRANSLATIONS
Can you help?
This page is my attempt to catalogue yet to
be translated chapters in yizkor books, that may contain valuable
information relating to Yiddish dance and music. The New York Public
Library has scanned and put online many yizkor books, so that it is now
possible to access the texts in their original languages, (usually
Yiddish and Hebrew). If you can assist with translation, even in
terms of providing a synopsis of the chapter,
please contact
me. I will post the translations here, even if they cover
subjects outside the realm of dancing.
I have excerpted the
relevant chapters, and am trying to enlarge and enhance the text, to make it
easier to read when printed out (still working on this for many entries). You can also read the texts online at
the
New
York Public Library web site, though the printout is quite tiny.
If reading on-screen, zoom in to enlarge the text.
The Jewish Genealogy web
site has an ongoing yizkor book translation project; however, these
particular chapters haven’t yet been translated. In addition, Yale
Strom, in the
Book of
Klezmer, has provided a synopsis of many of the texts noted below.
There is also a selection currently available yizkor book translations
that deal with music and dance on Ari Davidow's
Klezmershack.
Drawing: from
Zablodu, 1961 Yizkor Book page 273, "A Wedding at the Synagogue" by
A Gudelman
http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=1158,
image 277
Hebrew Text image 531 (pg. 527)
Pure melodies
Hebrew Text image 532 (pg. 528)
Excerpted from:
Minsk, Jewish Mother-City,
a Memorial Anthology
(Belarus)
Edited by: Shlomo Even-Shushan
Published in: Jerusalem, 1975-85
Available translation to date of other chapters:
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/minsk/minsk.html
The An-Ski Expedition in Kremenets English PDF
Translated by Wolf Krakowski and Paula Parsky
Yiddish Text images 375-383 (pp. 367-375)
Excerpted from:
Memorial Book of Krzemieniec
(Ukraine)
Edited by: Abraham Samuel Stein
Published in Tel Aviv, 1954
Available translation to date of other chapters:
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/kremenets/kremenets.html
Two Weddings
English PDF
Translated by Deborah Green
Yiddish Text
image
217 (pg.425)
Suchowola Tales--coming soon
Yiddish Text
image
images 194-195 (pp.379-382)
Synopsis
of these chapters from The Book of Klezmer by Yale Strom
Excerpted from:
Suchovola
(Memorial Library of Jewish Communities)
(Suchowola, Poland)
Editorial board: Kh. Shteynberg et al
Published in Jerusalem/Tel-Aviv, 1957
Available translation to date of other chapters:
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/suchowola/suchowola.html
note: dances are mentioned in the Two Weddings chapter.
A Wedding in Shtetl
English PDF
Yiddish Text image 80 (pg. 136)
Translated by Wolf Krakowski
Excerpted from:
Tuczyn: Sefer Zikaron Le-kehilat Tuczyn-Krippe (Tutchin-Krippe, Wolyn;
In Memory of the Jewish Community).
Edited by: B. H. Ayalon. Tel Aviv, Tutchin and Krippe Relief Society of
Israel, 1967
Pictures
from Jewish Life, Klezmorim
English PDF
Yiddish Text images 477-78 (pp. 373-374)
Translated by Wolf Krakowski
Excerpted from:
Memorial Book of the Community of Ostrow-Mazowiecka
(Poland)
Edited by: Arye (Laibl) Margolis (Margalit), Assoc. of former residents
of Ostrow-Masowieck
Published in Tel Aviv, 1960
Available translation to date of other chapters
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ostrow/ostrow.html
Klezmorim Come To the Shtetl and
The Orchestra in Modern Times
English PDF
Yiddish
Text images 141-147 (pp 137-143)
Translated
by Wolf
Krakowski
Excerpted from:
Memorial Book of the Community of Turka
on the Stryj and Vicinity
(Turka, Ukraine)
Edited by: J. Siegelman and former residents of Turka (Stryj) in
Israel
Published in Haifa, 1966
Available translation to date of other chapters:
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/turka/Turka.html#TOC57
Yiddish Text image 270 (pp. 523-524)
Translated by Wolf Krakowski
Excerpted from:
Kamen Kashirskiy Book
(Ukraine)
Edited by: A. A. Stein, et al.
Published in Tel Aviv: Former Residents of Kamin Koshirsky
and surroundings in Israel, 1965 (H,Y)
Available translation to date of other chapters:
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Kamen_Kashirskiy/Kamen_Kashirskiy.html
Czyzewo Klezmorim English PDF
Yiddish text pp 579-585 PDF
Translated by Wolf Krakowski
Excerpted from:
Czyzewo Memorial Book (original text of entire book)
(Czyzew, Poland)
Edited by Szymon Kanc
Published in Tel Aviv,
former residents of Czyzewo in Israel and the USA, 1961
Available translation to date of other chapters:
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Czyzew/Czyzew.html
See also A Wedding In Shtetl
Kalushiner Klezmorim, English PDF
Yiddish Text
images 257-258 (pp. 253-254)
Rabbi
Naftali's Big Wedding,
English PDF
Yiddish Text image 290 (pg.286)
Translated by
Wolf
Krakowski
PDF of Yiddish, both
chapters
Excerpted from:
The Memorial Book of Kalushin
(Kałuszyn, Poland)
Editors: A. Shamir, Sh. Soroka
Published in Tel Aviv, 1961, Former Residents of Kalushin in Israel
Available translation to date of other chapters:
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/kaluszyn/kaluszyn.html
A Wedding in Shtetl
Rough English Translation PDF
Yiddish
text
PDF pp 447-448
Excerpted from:
Yad l'Yedinitz;
Memorial Book
(Yedintsy, Moldova)
Edited by: Mordehkai Reicher and Yosel Magen-Shitz
Published by: Yedinitz Society in Tel Aviv, 1973
Available translation to date of other chapters:
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Yedintsy/Yedinits.html
A Wedding in
Sokolka Summary in English PDF
Hebrew text
PDF
image 70 at NYPL web location
Summarized by Dr. Dina Roginsky
Excerpted from:
Memorial Book of Sokolka
(Poland)
Edited by: Encyclopedia of Jewish Diaspora
Published in Jerusalem, 1968
Available translation to date of other chapters:
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/sokolka/sokolka.html
The
Rabbi's Melody English translation and Commentary by Cantor
Joseph Levine (PDF) Used with permission.
Yiddish and Hebrew Text images 232 &268-270 (pp. 220 & 256-258)
Excerpted from:
The Book of Zambrov
(Poland)
Editor: Y. T. Lewinsky
Published in Tel Aviv 1963
Available translation to date of other chapters:
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Zambrow/Zambrow.html