Ikh dermon zikh itster
In mayn shtetele dem kleynem:
Vu ikh hob di shayn tsuersh derzen,
Vu ikh bin geboyrn dortn,
Vi ikh bin dertsoygn
Vi ikh fleg als kind in kheyder geyn.
Slutsk, oy, Slutsk, mayn shtetele, vi ikh benk nokh dir.
Tif in hartsn, heym du mayn, ligstu do bay mir,
A vigl af a shtrikele un a tsubrokhn betle,
Un dokh tayer bistu mir,
Slutsk, oy Slutsk mayn shtetele.
Fraytik nakht di mame flegt di likht zikh bentshn
Der tate in besmedresh flegt zikh geyn.
Un fun shul af shabes flegt er brengen fremde mentshn
Zmires zingen flegt men zeyer sheyn
Slutsk, oy, Slutsk, mayn shtedtele …
[Lyrics by - Aaron Lebedeff (לעבעדאָ, אהרן),
Music by - Wohl Herman (װאָ, הערמאַן)]
In English:
I recall now my little town:
Where I first glimpsed the light of day-
where I was born and where I grew up,
and how as a child I would go to school there.
Slutsk, oh Slutsk, my shtetl, how I long for you.
Deep in my heart you lie, my home,
a cradle suspended on a string, and a broken bed,
yet you’re still dear to me,
Slutsk, oh Slutsk, my shtedtele.
On Friday night Mother used to light the Sabbath candles.
Father would go to the synagogue
and return with Sabbath guests,
and they would sing beautiful table hymns.
Slutsk, oh Slutsk, my shtetele...
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Slutsk (officially transliterated as Sluck, Belarusian: Слуцк; Ukrainian: Слуцьк, Russian: Слуцк; Polish: Słuck, Lithuanian: Sluckas, Yiddish/Hebrew: סלוצק Slutsk) is a city in Belarus, located on the Sluch River 105 km (65 mi) south of Minsk. As of 2010, its population is of 61,400. Slutsk is the administrative center of Slutsk District.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slutsk
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Eleanor Reissa is an American actress, singer, theatre director, playwright, librettist, choreographer, translator, and author based in New York City. She works and performs in English and Yiddish speaking stages, and also interprets and performs Yiddish theatre and songs.
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Eleanor Reissa was born in Brooklyn, New York. However, her parents were born in Poland. During WW2, they were both placed in German ghettos established in occupied Poland, and fought and lived through the Holocaust. In America, they were both considered sweatshop workers. Hence, Reissa studied in the New York City public school system and received her Bachelor of Arts in Speech and Theatre at Brooklyn College, graduating cum laude.
Reissa has also sung in numerous American musicals in the theatre, including Tintypes, The Rise of David Levinsky, and Fiddler on the Roof.
Reissa's singing in Yiddish has earned her the title of the "Reigning Queen of Yiddish Cabaret". Additionally, she has been featured in Pearls of Yiddish Song, Remember the Children, Going Home: Gems of Yiddish Song, Songs in the Key of Yiddish, and in 2015, Just Add Water (Eleanor Reissa and Di Boyess).
She has collaborated with Frank London of the Klezmatics and the Klezmer Brass Allstars, to perform together internationally. Along with the Klezmatics, she recorded Vilde Mekhaye (Wild Ecstasy) in 2016. They have also performed in festivals and venues including Berlin, Toronto, Paris, Vienna, and in New York City at Joe's Pub and Feinstein's/54 Below.
She and Frank London performed their program Kurt Weill in New York at the Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau, (Germany) featuring Anthony Coleman, Greg Cohen, and Billy Martin...
Reissa was commissioned to adapt the story The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer (also known as Hershel of Ostropol) as a musical for the National Yiddish Theatre, Folksbiene, where it was played for two consecutive seasons, starring Mike Burstyn. It was then performed in Israel at Yiddishpiel, the same location where it was nominated for the Israel Prize as well. After this, Reissa was also commissioned by Yiddishpiel to adapt the 1937 film, Yidl Mitn Fidl to a stage musical in 2014, where it has a successful run.
In 2019, Reissa also received a commission by the National Yiddish Theatre, Folksbiene to translate Paddy Chayevsky’s The Tenth Man, into Yiddish (with Harvey Varga), which was slated for the 2020 season with her as director.
She also worked on the libretto for the opera Taibele and Her Demon, based on the short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, with composer, Judd Greenstein.
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The Letters Project: A Daughter’s Journey:
After the death of her mother, Reissa found letters sent by her father, a survivor of Auschwitz, in the late 1940s to her mother, a survivor of a slave labor camp in Uzbekistan. She eventually had them translated and traveled to Germany, later writing The Letters Project: A Daughter’s Journey, which was published by Post Hill Press in 2022.
www.eleanorreissa.com/
26 ноя 2022
