We begin with the story of how I found my identity in great American musicals. Then we return to the Pale of Settlement, follow my great grandmother across the ocean, and begin to explore the relationship between Judaism and Jewishness, as represented by her two daughters.
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The Pintele Haggadah is now available at noahdiamond.com/pintele. I hope you’ll consider buying a copy and incorporating it into your Passover tradition, or using it to start one.
Special thanks to Eleanor Reissa for permission to include her recording of “Yankee Doodle Boy / Lebn Zol Columbus” in this episode. The recording appears on Ms. Reissa’s 1992 album Going Home: Gems of Yiddish Song. For more information, visit eleanorreissa.com.
Other music heard in this episode includes “Palesteena” by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band; “Broken Life” by the Russian Novelty Orchestra; “Mein Shtetele Belz” by The Berries and by Sammy Wardell and his Para-Muse Recorders; “Mazel Tov” by Emil Stern; “Lebn Zol Columbus” by Abraham Rosenstein; “Internationale” by the Kunstler Orchestra; “Kaddish” by Cantor Alberto Meir Pinkas; and “Golden Wedding” by Rita Marlowe with Sid Phillips and His Orchestra. Also: “The Presidents’ March” by Greg Wardson, “Broadway Bigwig” by Art and Robin Munson, “Klezmer Moon” by Cynthia Anastasia La Fata, “Broadway in Blue” by Eamonn Watt, “Mitzva River” by Paul Gelsomine, “Lament for Jerusalem” by David Hollandsworth, “Making it On Broadway” by Benjamin Orth, “Shalom Aleichem Rhapsodies” by David-Ezra Okonsar; “Hava Nagila Sly Violin” by Musical Production; and “Brookline Chair Lift” and “Hava Nagila” by Steve Rice, licensed from the Pond5 media collection.
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