Di hoyfzinger | Di Wanderer

Di hoyfzinger | Di Wanderer 

Radio Leon / Yiddish recordings published in Buenos Aires in 1950. Side A = Di hoyfzinger. Music and text: unknown (repertoire probably from"Arara" theater, prewar Lodz). Side B = Di Wanderer (Di vandere; AKA Tango fun geto). Music: Sholom Secunda (parody of"Mayn yidishe maydel"); Words: Unknown. Performers: Elvira Bochcovska, Shimon Nussbaum, Max Neufeld, instrumental ensemble. The Bochcovska/Nussbaum/Neufeld revue"'Di freylekhe vandere" oder 'Nisht dos vos geven" (the happy wanderers or not what it used to be) toured Latin America in the 1950s, and may have recorded under the group name"Di vandere" Nussbaum and Neufeld were veterans of the prewar"Arara" kleinkunst theater in Lodz; Bochcovska had studied dance in Moscow. Bochcovska and Neufeld recorded some of the same repertoire in postwar Paris. In the Paris sessions, the artists were accompanied by the Orchestra Ben-Horris (refer to https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn702463 for photos and artifacts from the Ben Horris (Moscovitz) family. 

For more information, refer to Fundacion IWO, Buenos Aires and"Musiques Juives Dans Le Paris D'Après-Guerre, Elesdisc 1948-195" at www.discogs.com/it/Various-Musiques-Juives-Dans-Le-Paris-DApr%C3%A8s-Guerre-Elesdisc-1948-1953/release/10464047