"Where can I go?" Yiddish song Steve Lawrence
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- "Vi Ahin Zol Ich Geyn?"
On album: L-053(a) (Steve Lawrence / Ramblin' Rose)
Conductor Guercio, Joe
Vocal Lawrence, Steve
Arranger Zito, Torrie
First line: Tell me, where can I go, there's no place I can see, where to go, where to go.
First line (Yiddish):װוּ אַהין זאָל איך גײן? װער קען ענטפֿערן מיר, װוּ צו גײן,...
Track comment: Recorded under "Where Can I Go"
Language: English and Yiddish
Yiddish lyrics:
Vi ahin zol ikh geyn? Ver kon entfern mir? Vi ahin zol ikh geyn? Az farshlosn z'yede tir S'iz di velt groys genug Nor far mir iz eng un kleyn Vi a blik kh'muz tsurik S'iz tsushtert yede brik Vi ahin zol ikh geyn? Dort ahin vel aich gein In . . .
Vi ahin zol aich gein S. Korn-Tuer (Music) O .Strock (Lyrics)
Where can I go? Lyrics:
1949
Performer Leo Fuld
Title Where can I go
Lyrictext
Wi ahin Zol ich Gein?
Wer can entfern mir
Wi ahin Zol ich Gein?
Fur es sloss jeder tuhr
Siehe auf links, siehe auf rechts
Au te soll im jedem Land
As wi ahin Zol ich Gein?
Tell me, where can I go?
There's no place I can see.
Where to go, where to go?
Every door is closed for me.
To the left, to the right,
It's the same in every land.
There is nowhere to go
And it's me who should know,
Won't you please understand?
Now I know where to go,
Where my folk proudly stand.
Let me go, let me go
To that precious promised land.
No more left no more right.
Lift your head and see the light.
I am proud, can't you see,
For at last I am free:
No more wandering for me.
A memory from the internet:
"There is a song -- and a question -- that haunts me from childhood: 'Vi Ahin Soll Ich Geh'n?' ('Where Can I Go?'). Some time in the 1940s (probably around 1948 when the State of Israel came into existence) Leo Fuld, the 'King of Yiddish Music', recorded the song in Yiddish and English. We frequently played the record, an old 78 rpm, at our North London home. My mother would sing it with feeling, as if its questions were hers and its answer an answer to her prayers. To the best of my (and her) recollection, the English version of the first verse was as follows:
Tell me, Where can I go?
There's no place I can see.
Where to go, where to go?
Every door is closed to me.
To the left, to the right,
It's the same in every land.
There is nowhere to go
And it's me who should know,
Won't you please understand?
Even without the soulful melody, these despairing words ring in my ears; when sung they go straight to the heart. As a young child, the first verse seemed to me as melancholy as Kol Nidre -- the solemn supplication that opens the evening service on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement -- but less obscure. Here was a person in a nightmare: lost, shut out, cut off, set apart, a voice crying in the wilderness. I was a child and I understood crying. I understood lost as well. 'Won't you please understand?' Oh, but I did, to the core. But where to go, where to go? The song itself supplies the answer, expressed in the jubilant second verse:
Now I know where to go,
Where my folk proudly stand.
Let me go, let me go
To that precious promised land.
No more left no more right.
Lift your head and see the light.
I am proud, can't you see,
For at last I am free:
No more
wandering for me
שיעור יידיש
Title: Vu Ahin Zol Ikh Geyn? (Fuld) -- װוּ אַהין זאָל איך גײן? (פֿולד)
Also known as: Ou Dois-Je Aller?
Author: Fuld, Leo -- פֿולד, לעאָ
Author: Miller, Sonny
Composer: Strok, Oscar -- סטראָק, אָסקאַר
Composer: Berland, Sigmunt
Genre: Zionist/Holocaust
Subject: Hope/Statehood/Home
Song Comment: See "Vu Ahin Zol Ikh Geyn (Korntayer)" Also Heskes entry 3383
Origin: Neslen 16.5
Transliteration: Neslen 16.5
Translation: Neslen 16.5
Additional song notes: Liner notes on on Fuld's recording F-020(d) and Hershel Fox's recording (F-017(a), Sonny Miller and Leo Fuare credited with the text and Sigmunt Berland credited as composer. Same credits are on the Heskes sheet music entry 3383. The text is an adaptation or revamping of Korntayer's "Vu Ahin Zol Ikh Geyn". Nowithstanding the credit to Berland as composer, the melody is the same as Strok's.
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My grandparents and aunt escaped Vienna, Austria in 1939. They came over on a ship from England to United States. Thanks to my grandfather, I was given life and so was my son! So grateful to my grandfather to do everything he could to get out at age 25…They started a new life in San Francisco for many more generations…
Sadly my great grandparents on both sides did not want to go with him and did not survive the holocaust.
In memory of my grandparents....i am here !! To all descendants and survivors of the shoah..god bless !!
Beautiful and emotional song
Christopher--Amen…, May you lead the life they couldn’t ….!
As a child of holocaust survivors, the song brings rages to my heart. The world closed its eyes and became deaf as our families were murdered.
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OMG. What a voice. Heartbreaking. Israel forever. Never again.
It is even more heart wrenching in Yiddish!
This song is so moving...I am saving this to share on Kristallnacht next year...Kristallnacht is on November 9th and although I am Christian, my friends and I decided to send a piece of crystal to a Jewish friend on November 9th to repent on behalf of our ancestors not doing more during the Holocaust.
This brought tears to my eyes! Cannot begin to imagine the despair these people must have felt when they were denied entry after all they had done to even be on one of those ships! Shame on the world! Against all odds, Jewish people have not only survived, but thrived!!!!!
And we always will Marsha... because we have love for our people and determination to survive.
And continue to serve the World; all of it!
We had a policeman named Clarence Coleman in my city of Uddevalla in Sweden he was a master whistler.
השירים ביידיש נוגעים ללבי ומביאים דמעות בעיני. חבל שראשוני המנהיגים בארץ (האשכנזים) לא רצו שידברו בארץ בשפה זו וכך נשכחה השפה למרות שעכשיו מנסים לדבר בשפת היידיש ומנסים להחיות אותה, השפה העשירה והעסיסית מתה ונעלמה כי כבר לא ידברו ביידיש ולא יכתבו ספרים ביידיש וחבל ויש לי הרגשה שיחד עם האנשים גם שפת היידיש מתה בשואה!
I agree with you shame of thé world, because USA, etc know about all this
(1941)
This is an incredible history of my great great grandparents and half of my great grandparent's family who never made it out of Hungary during the war. Over half were killed in the camps. I have watched and listened to Steve sing this hundreds of times. Never Again.......
Extremely moving- What a presentation with Steve's cantorial voice and the images from our past. NEVER AGAIN!!!
Thank you for your comments. The 935 jews on
the SS St. louis had landing permits for
Cuba. When the ship reached Havana, the cuban
government refused to allow the passengers to
disembark. It is now ironic that Cuba who
refused to let the refugees enter lived to
see how Cubans themselves became refugees 20
years after the incident.
It was the Cuba of Batista, the USA's great ally, that turned them back to die in Europe; not post-revolutionary Cuba.
@@HayyimFeldman 2
Havana was their last port of call. Montreal, NY Pennsylvania, Florida denied these passengers to disembark. Running low on supplies and fuel, the ship returned to Bremerhaven. Their final destination.: Auschwitz. Non survived the crematorium…..
A Very Touching Piece. Everyone who claims it did not happen should view and listen to this posting. It should then be inscribed, "NEVER AGAIN!"
This song brings tears to my eye & tugs at my Jewish heart.
Pure io sono ebreo e la penso allo stesso modo jonathan anisfeld da Genova classe 1983
Same.
@@jonathan8197fra ma ci sono ancora degli ebrei lì a Genova? Come mai questo cognome super straniero ahaha senza offesa
I love that album! He was very young when he recorded it. I as a rule don't care to listen to 'religious' music but can listen to that album over and over and over.
This song is always a comfort for my ❤️!I pray for Israel every day 🇮🇱🎶🌈🎶
So beautifully sung by Steve Lawrence. Makes me weep.
Years after the war my Mama used to sing this when I was a very little girl this is why we must fight for our beautiful Land of Israel
fantatic
makes you love israel
@@malcolmsimon34 Of this typo, did you mean to type 'Fantastic'?
"We must fight" - because your mother used to sing this song?
Words evade me....just tears roll uncontrollably down my cheeks....
i miss my papa so much.. he always sing this song..
you will always live in my heart.. i love u
I was a survivor escaping from Germany to England although my father was lost, beautiful song.
I'm so sorry
+halamarsel Thank you.
+Janette Walker Its nice to hear that .. And it's good England open a door during that time...but why US denied the Jewish people ....?
+andy daba U.S. state department was anti-semetic.
I'm quite interested to learn more about these things...the suffering of the jewish people....
What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Maybe that's why we've survived down through the centuries of persecution. Everytime I hear this song, I get goosebumps.
OMG this song sung by the marvelous Steve Lawrence is heart wrenching - It is so poignant on so many levels ..
I have looked at those pictures over many
years and the drama depicted in them stayed
with me. And Steve Lawrence singing that song
with that yiddish sentiment...
I'm so happy he performed this song in concert. Wish I could have been there.
This song has been my favorite since
I first heard it in the 1960s.
I cried through the whole thing. It brought back so many memories of my childhood.
This is the most moving version that I have ever had the privelege of owning.Thank you Steve and Edie,and Albert for posting.May you all live long and in good health.
💞 LLAP 🖖... Live Long and Prosper 🙏
Extremely moving- What a presentation with Steve's incredible catorial voice and the images from our past. NEVER AGAIN!!!
I heard this song when I was orphaned that is the very reason I love this song because during that time I really do not know where to go. But God so loved me that now with all the sacrifices I have made I was able to finish my studies and of course I have my own home and I now know where to go home!
Deep and very meaningful song. My heart goes out for the long suffering people.
I now know that this is a yiddish song and with all the comments I have read I felt now how the Jews felt during that time when they do not know where they should go and Israel should be given their own land as promised by the Lord! We should share what God gave us and be charitable to each other and live peacefully and love each other because we are just creatures of God!
Yep, I agree whole heartedly! I was also at their concert at the North Fork Theater (formerly the Westbury Music Fair) on Long Island this past Saturday, November 3rd, 2007. They were fantastic! And this song was so moving. You're right about the standing ovation for this song....I got chills!!! And I'm a younger guy, being 54 years old, but am a devoted fan of Steve And Eydie. I wish I could see a video of their interview with Larry King from 2003; I've searched youtube but can't find anything.
Замечательно поёт, ушёл целый народ"европейские евреи" , которые так много дали неблагодарному Миру.И сейчас Мир продолжает это творить с Израилем
Lyrics of this song belongs to the poet I. Korntayer (1890 - 1942). He was born and lived in Poland, his first language was Yiddish. Perished apparently in Warsaw ghetto. Music was composed by Oskar (Leib) Strok (1893 - 1975). He was born in Dinaburg (Latvia), studied in St-Petersburg (Russia), came back to Riga (Latvia) and was a very famous composer between two world wars, "the King of Tango". This song is actually his a bit modified tango "Blue eyes". He fled to Russia in 1941 and after the was came back to Riga but his creative ability was essentially impaired during his stay in Russia.
Thank you very much.
Benjamin C
Tears one's soul to pieces...
אַ שײנעם דאַנק דיר פֿאַר די פּרטים װאָס איך האָב זײ פֿריער נישט געװוּסט. י
Todah! Fascinating...
I recall that Steve's father was a cantor. Clearly the son could have been one as well.
So heartfelt, so
beautifully sung, with some cantoral ornaments --
met both he and Edyie in Long Beach shortly before they were married. a delightful young couple
wow.
Mir kommen die Tränen, wenn ich sehe und höre!!
Какой же великолепный голос, и музыка прекрасна! Спасибо за удовольствие! 👍♥️
So sad and moving its always bringing me to tears🙏
It may be so 1930's as you say but this kind of music will last LONG after what is being played and listened to today.
Albie, thanks for posting this. Steve had a beautiful voice (pop songs like his biggest hit,"Go Away, Little Girl" in '62, did not show off his talent as well as this song), and this is a very moving song. For confused Ed K, he should listen to other Steve Lawrence songs; he can learn to recognize his voice. Also, he can hear the Jay (Black) & the Americans "Vie Iz Dos Gesele" on UA-cam thanks to you, Albie---it's also beautiful and moving, but a different voice and a different song. Rest in peace, Eydie Gormé, who passed away 5 months ago. She sang with husband Steve for many years. A lovely duo.
9
@@ireneskibinski8554 Hi, Irene. I think you were starting to point out that Eydie died 9 years ago, 6 days before her 85th birthday (8/16/28-8/10/2013). I'm so glad, because your "9" brought me back to this wonderful song. I now lead a Yiddish Club, so I'll put together a sheet of the lyrics (I do a 3-column doc with English, translit, and oysyes which we read; then we hear the song). I like Steve's voice better than Leo Fuld's. so I'll play this video for my group. zay gezunt.
Mas que una cancion es un lamento hasta que finalmente ve la luz!! Hermosa interpretacion. Hermoso texto. Dios bendiga a Israel. Amen!
You want a good cry? This video will do it. Such a heartfelt cry from my people. So lucky to have been born here in the US.
Very moving, both lyrics and scenes. I recall having heard Theodore Bickel's version of this very many years ago. Thank you for posting.
Congratulations on the success of your son. I hope they make Jersey Boys into a movie, so we can all see it, no matter where we live.
Felicitaciones! desde Buenos Aires he reenviado esta canción y las conmovedoras fotos del Saint Louis a todo nuestro listado de sobrevivientes e hijos de sobrevivientes de la shoá. Estamos vivos por casualidad. Nos lo has hecho recordar. Recordar nuestra suerte es imperativo y honrar nuestro legado es un deber. Con mi agradecimiento, Diana Wang
Such a beautiful heartfelt song - sang my the wonderful Steve Lawrence -
My life is my treasure and this video is a major part of my life. I am so proud to be able to share this with my 5 grandchildren.
thank you,
AP
This is such a great song. I can't get enough of it.....
Only the Dominican Republic offered 100,000 visas to the jewish refugees... Very proud to be the only country to open the doors to our most valued guests.
Continued...
When I came home with the songbook, and showed it to my dad, he said, oh yes, of course I know it and started singing it. He was eight when he got to the camps after the war, and heard endless story after another of what had happened to each survivor there. He was fifteen when they got visas and permission to leave the camps.
Steve Lawrence renders the most expressive version of this outstanding song. If one cannot empathize with the Jew's
plight among the surviving members of the Jewish faith following WWII , one would have to beating within their breast a heart of stone.
I am Catholic, the faith which sprang from the Jewish family of Jesus., Mary and Joseph. I have learned this unforgettable song and will sing it, to the best my ability, at an upcoming event at my local St. Michael church hall. Love to ALL my Jewish neighbors, wherever in the world you live, Shalom.
Shalom and thank you for being you.
my door is open for all and so is my heart who ever comes without hate in the heart
I consider this the best version of the song.
Leo Fuld who introduced this song in 1949 sang
it well, but I find that Steve Lawrence gives
it a ÿiddish lament¨quality. Dudu Fisher sings it
well in yiddish, and The Barry Sisters have also
included this song in their repertoire. But Steve
Lawrence gives it an acting quality and passion.
Great yiddish lyrics...
Todah rabba 💙🎶😢 Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱🙏
thankfully we no longer have to say "where can I go?" if need be we have Israel.
I was a hidden child in France. no place to hide safely. but thankfully survived. happy to be gone from that continent!!! this song still makes me cry. I would lto play it on the piano but can't find the sheet music.
Suzanne, I am glad you were saved. You are the remnant. And now, there are so many violent demonstrations in France today! Attacks on synagogues, violent attacks on Jews. Yes, we have Israel, and Israel must be defended. Suzanne, try playing it by ear.... Trust your ear.
MerlePsyA thank you so much for your kind comment.I am so distraught about what is going on in europe and Israel. it is starting to look like 1938! as for the music to this lovely song i finally found it on a digital site and now play it everyday. it is beautiful. I though I don't have much of a voice i sing it as I play it.
and hope that eventually Israel will be victorious.
Hashem has been good to you dear Suzanne.... I lived in 4 countries from 3 European to US and now our land is calling me after my husband is gone... can't shake the lonely feeling and the feeling of looming danger. It would be so good to be among our people.
***** thank you so much. I wish you good travel to our land among our people. I am with you in the feeling of the looming danger. hopefully it wont come to the point where I have to displace myself once more.. but if need be then it will be in Israel. best wishes for a safe move and a good and peaceful life .
***** Hi I know the feeling never forget this song
כל פעם שאני שומע את השיר אני פורץ בבכי
THANK YOU for posting this beautiful song, which I never ever heard before. And done nicley by Steve Lawrence.
Excellent and very touching since I just visited the concentration camp at Stutthof, Poland.
I keep coming back to view our History, whcih we must never forget! Steve is singing about the way it was...his Cantorial training really comes through. My Father's cousin's survived Auschwitz and the March, and eventually wound up in Israel. I heard the stories straight from them in Israel....... I have not been able to purchase the CD with this song on it....
Quelle nostalgie en écoutant cette superbe chanson, tellement vrai a l'époque, mais toujours d'actualité.
REWRITE(without writing thru tears)! Although I am a child of survivors--we have succeeded in every sense of the word---"they" beat us down and we still rose above it all. Now my son is a Broadway Star (Jersey Boys). I hope to have him learn some of the old songs I grew up with so he can sing them to me in my old age! Had my Father not saved my Mother's entire family I would not be here to post this message!
This is a powerful vocal by Steve and such a moving video... Bravo for posting it...
we was here we are here and we will be here.. long live israel
@wilf wolfson At the end Isreal WILL BE VICTORIOUS AS ISREAL WILL HAVE VICTORY AS PROMISED BY PROPHECIES.
The people of Sunderland LOVE all Jews all are welcome read the history of the fantastic Jews of Sunderland UK😅
Make sure!
I love this song. Touching, inspiring and good music.
This tragic song was written on music of "Blue Eyes" tango by the Riga-born Jewish composer Oskar Strok, the lyrics of "Blue Eyes" was written by Mark Maryanovsky, also a Jew who died in Buchenwald in 1945. The tango "Blue Eyes" was originally performed by Pyotr Leshchenko.
My aunt found my grandfather‘s account of his escape out of Europe in his diary. She published it .it is called “my father‘s Lost Diary” … it’s short but fascinating and a wonderful story of survival! Give it a read!
i have liked this song since I first heard
it in the 1960s. F. Kafka is a fascinating
personality with a vivid imagination.
Yet he had many personal problems he
could not overcome. People should have a
positive outlook on life.
yiddish lyrics:
Vu ahin zol ikh geyn,
Ver kon entfern mir?
Vu ahin zol ikh geyn,
Az farmacht z'yede tir?
S'iz di velt groys genug,
Nor far mir iz eng un kleyn -
Vu a blik
Kh'muz tsurik,
S'iz tseshtert yede brik:
Vu ahin zol ikh geyn?
A danke !!!
Необыкновенная музыка, слова и исполнение!
I haven't heard Steve Lawrence for too many years. Cannot believe the power, the tenderness, the sweetness, the timber of his voice...seems that he sure has improved with age. does anyone out there know if and when Steve and Edie are coming to South Florida
Great voice reminds me my father when i was growing up…
I've always loved this song. Very poignant.
this song is really moving.
This reminds me home 50 years ago.
Albie Diner is doing holy work. The visuals accompanying this poignant song demand that we remember. I was born in Brooklyn, 1942, as millions of people of my background were being slaughtered. For many years the world turned its back.. My father sang this to me when I was young. Did Sammy Davis Jr. also record this song.? Leo Fuld gave voice to the Holocaust generation and the Jewish diaspora, who have sought safe haven for millenia. Albie Diner keeps the memories alive.
So beautiful song with a lot of feeling and with deepest....pain.
There is a photo of my parents. I found this link on a Jewish Genealogy site. It was startling to see them on this video. I would love to know where these photos came from. I felt as though I got to spend time with them again. Evelyn (Mendel) Kinnear
Written before WWII by Oscar Strock and S. Kortnayer, a Yiddish actor who died in Warsaw Ghetto. Johnny Mathis' version (in English) was recently re-issued on "Jewish Soul" (Hatikvah Music in Los Angeles). This compilation also has Tom Jones' "Yiddishe Mama" and Jay Black's "Vi Iz Dos Gesele," among others.
It's the best of the best! He has a majestic voice! So nice lyric!
MY FATHER USED TO SING THIS IN YIDDISH & MANY MORE SUCH SONGS.
Author: Fuld, Leo -- פֿולד, לעאָ
Author: Miller, Sonny
Composer: Strok, Oscar -- סטראָק, אָסקאַר
Composer: Berland, Sigmunt
Sonny Miller and Leo Fuare credited with the text and Sigmunt Berland credited as composer. The text is an adaptation or revamping of Korntayer's "Vu Ahin Zol Ikh Geyn". Nowithstanding the credit to Berland as composer, the melody is the same as Strok's.
May God continue to bless you and your family......Thank you for sharing your family story with me.......
I am (verklempt (overcome with emotion) 😌🙏
song says it all
Special song sung so beautiful I wish I could get a copy
Heart rending, especially with those photographs!
Thank you Albert
В этой трагической песне использована музыка танго "Голубые глаза" композитора-рижанина еврея Оскара Строка на слова Марка Марьяновского, тоже еврея погибшего в Бухенвальде в 1945. Танго "Голубые глаза" исполнял Пётр Лещенко.
Love it! Tears in my eyes!!
I love Yiddish songs
thanks for sharing
gorgeous song don so beautifully by Steve Lawrence.
Lest we forget!
This is the most touching and beautiful video and song
So thanks to you Who upload this , Even my Granda can't tell the title, Just the some little lyrics, Lucky We I found it..
makes the heart ache .
This song, by Johnny Mathis, is on the CD, "Jewish Soul: The Heart & Soul of Jewish Music" a compilation of Jewish songs by various artists...INCLUDING Jackie Wilson, Tom Jones, Eartha Kitt and more.....
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004CP7T8A?ref%5F=sr%5F1%5F1&qid=1473360738&sr=8-1&keywords=jewish%20soul%20%20the%20heart%20and%20soul&pldnSite=1
One of the biggest ......
In memory of my grandparents
❤prayers 🙏
I agree with you Mr. Diner. One must not only pay attention to the voice, but the instrumental musical rendition, as well as the words and inflections! Dudu Fisher is also one of my favorites, as are the Barry Sisters---but each offers their own flavor which I appreciate!
God bless all..
Beautiful. It was hard for Me to hold back the tears
Great voice, nice nostalgic song - love it!
Thank you for informing of this tragic incident. It was the worst of times for the
jewish people.
Heartbreaking...
But so true makes me very😢