Reasons you would want to be Jewish.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
(9) The Music

Barbra ?

Billy Joel ?


Dana International !!!!!!

[Cort Haus]

I was thinking of the some of the Jewish folk tunes that the violinist at the Trojka restaurant at Primrose Hill plays on a weekend.

I don't know what any of them are called, though. :shrug:

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Dana International !!!!!!

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
I was thinking of the some of the Jewish folk tunes that the violinist at the Trojka restaurant at Primrose Hill plays on a weekend.

I don't know what any of them are called, though. :shrug:

Have you heard the Lost Jewish Music of Transylvania ?

This is a fine performance of some beautiful Old World Jewish melodies. As the very complete liner notes explain, most Eastern European musicians in the pre-Holocaust world knew both Jewish and non-Jewish music, because they would play at all kinds of events for both communities. Sadly, the Jewish musicians who played this music perished in the Holocaust, but the music was remembered by non-Jewish musicians and later collected. Hence the reference to "lost" music. However, some of it is not really as "lost" as the notes imply. For example, "Ani Maamin" is well-known among Jews in the USA and is almost always sung at Holocaust Remembrance Day services. The words (not sung here -- the CD is instrumental) are from Maimonides (12th century) and the tune is attributed to the Breslover Hasidim, whose 18th-century Rebbe, Nachman of Breslov, taught them never to despair under any circumstances. Because of this theme, the tune later became popular in the concentration camps and among the resistance fighters. Hence the current association with the Holocaust.

There are other pieces on this CD that I've heard at Jewish weddings, long before this CD came out. In short, the music may have been lost in Eastern Europe, but much of it had already crossed the Atlantic before the Holocaust. I found myself wondering if the ethnographers who collected this were familiar with the American Jewish community. Nevertheless, what makes this CD special is the performance itself, which is based on the Hungarian/gypsy style, rather than the "Americanized" versions. It's definitely worth buying.

http://www.amazon.com/Maramaros-Lost-Jewish-Music-Transylvania/dp/B000000625

Marta Sebestyen also features on Towering Inferno's 'Kaddish'.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
7) You know where to find the best matzah ball soup and bagels

Marilyn Monroe, on being served Matzoh ball soup several dinners in a rown

"so, are there any other parts of the matzoh that we eat?"

[Fake Boris]

Re: Re: Molly

Originally posted by molly bloom
He's quite well-known, you know.

That I know very well - he was paranoid himself about separatists.

[Cort Haus]

Thanks for the link, Molly. That's the kind of thing I had in mind, and The Rooster Is Crowing in particular reminded me of some of the tunes I hear at that restaurant. I could almost taste the blinis.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Thanks for the link, Molly. That's the kind of thing I had in mind, and The Rooster Is Crowing in particular reminded me of some of the tunes I hear at that restaurant. I could almost taste the blinis.

Blinis, sour cream & caviare.

Coulibiac. Pierogi.


O lunch, where art thou ?

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Pierogi.

What's the difference between this and Pelmeni?

http://www.trojka.co.uk/menu.html

[molly bloom]

The ones I've had are cabbage leaves stuffed with meat and rice and served in a scrumptious sauce.

I'm now so hungry my stomach is eating my face, as a Moroccan once said to me.

[Heresson]

Originally posted by molly bloom
The ones I've had are cabbage leaves stuffed with meat and rice and served in a scrumptious sauce.

these are golabki

[molly bloom]

Aaah.

I wonder what golabki are called in Rumanian, then ?

My friend (who made them for me) had them made for him by his Rumanian step-mother, and he called them pierogi.


That explains it.


They were delicious in any case.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by molly bloom
The ones I've had are cabbage leaves stuffed with meat and rice and served in a scrumptious sauce.

gefilte kraut, in Yiddish. A speciality of my Mother in Law.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


gefilte kraut, in Yiddish. A speciality of my Mother in Law.

I really enjoy cooked cabbage.

I have a great Dutch recipe for white cabbage cooked in a creamy curry sauce.

I like sausage cooked in sauerkraut too.

[lord of the mark]

Oh, and Ive also heard them called golabches, obvioulsy closer to Polish. My MIL is from Hungary, and their Yiddish has fewer Polish words.