Nizza Thobi - Mir Lebn Ejbig

Rare Original 1982 IMPORT "Jupiter Records " CD

"Yiddish used to be known fondly to East European Jews as Mamaloshen: the “mother tongue”. Nizza Thobi, a small, feisty woman with a wonderfully soft, husky voice, devotes her music to the memory of this mainstay of Jewish culture.

Born in 1947 in Jerusalem to a Sephardic family, Thobi came into contact with German and Yiddish culture at an early age. Many of her teachers were German Jewish émigrés steeped in the world of Heine and Goethe. Her neighbours and even her mother spoke Yiddish, a language she adored – even if she didn’t understand it. “The language is so luscious,” says Thobi, “you feel you can sing it.” She longed to find out more: about German-Jewish history and its brutal destruction, about the people who bore witness in Mamaloshen to the annihilating violence, but also articulated their dreams and hopes in the “mother tongue”. So Nizza Thobi went a-travelling: from Jerusalem to Berlin, from there to Munich, which she would eventually call home. With her she bore her love of Yiddish and German, and the desire to share this ardour with others."

Bassoon, Flute, Accordion – Roland Casio

Cello – Herbert Heim

Guitar – Pavel Ricar

Strings – H. Herchenhahn Quatrett

Viola – Klaus Kosbahn

Violin – Edmund Pusl, H. Herchenhahn

Tracks : 

1 Unter Dajne Wajsse Schtern

2 Ein Lied Für Dich Jerushalem

3 Mach` Zu di Ejglech

4 Schtil, Die Nacht Is Ojgeschternt

5 A Genejwe

6 Ponar Lid

7 Far Wos Is Der Himl

8 Es Brennt

9 Dos Kelbal

10 Wilne

11 Papirossn

12 Papir Is Doch Wajss

13 Yam Lid

14 Friling

15 Mir Lebn Ejbig

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