Yippee
Directed by Paul Mazursky
Directed by Paul Mazursky
Directed by Natan Gross
This film shows and explains different Jewish customs. Among the customs shown are children singing the Shem'a over a babies cradle. That is a common custom in Poland and Ukraine. Additionally, there is a wedding ceremony of Eastern European Jews.
Film located at the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
Ukranian Jewish folksong.
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1. Anticuta Darga (3.27.1916)
2. Buhusher Chusid (Moskowitz, 3.27.1916)
3. Inspiration Spanish Vasle (Moskowitz, 7.19.1916)
4. Sirto (7.19.1916) 5. Operatic Rag (Julius Lenzberg, 2.4.1916)
6. Wichojiu Adin Ia Na Dorogu (Strolling on My Way Home, 12.12.1917)
7. Popurri iz Russkich Piesen (3.1927)
8. Batuta Olenilor Romanian Dance (12.12.1917)
9. Hungarian Czardas (2.4.1916)
Gershon (Herman) Svet was born January 1, 1893, in Shpole (Kiev province of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine). His father, Menachem Mendel Sveta, was the local cantor.
He studied at the "cheder" (religious elementary school). Later he graduated from high school in Zlatopol as an external student. In 1917 he joined the historical philology department at Kiev University, devoting himself primarily to the history of art. In 1920 he joined the Faculty of History and Philology of Odessa University. He married Yehudith Wahl, from Berlin.
Born in Belaya Tserkov, Ukraine, immigrated to the U.S. in 1912. Widely considered the most popular cantor of his time, Rosenblatt composed and arranged numerous religious works and had a major influence on the cantorial world that followed him.
Sources: Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music, Encyclopedia Judaica.