PAUL ROBESON SINGS Yiddish HASSIDIC CHANT KADDISH Chassidic Rebbe Levi Yitzchok

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PAUL ROBESON's last Album issued on 78 rpm records. By this time he was blacklisted, and the Othello label had been created by sympathizers for Robeson

Othello Recording Corp.

Founded in the early 50s as an independent label which would allow Paul Robeson to record as he had been blacklisted by the U.S. recording industry in 1947 and was unable to legally leave the country.  The label shared offices with the newspaper Freedom, and released albums by subscription.

A1 The Four Rivers 
A2 Night 
A3 Witness 
B1 My Curly-Headed Baby 
B2 Wanderin' 
B3 Hassidic Chant - sung in Yiddish and English 
Piano – Lawrence Brown (4) (tracks: B3)
Piano, Backing Vocals – Lawrence Brown (4) (tracks: A3)
Notes
"With Orchestra and Chorus" [A1, A2, B1, B2] on  label, without other information.

At a concert the African American singer and political activist
Paul Robeson (1898–1976) performed “The Hassidic [sic] Chant of Levi
Isaac,” along with a host of spirituals and folk songs, before a devoted
assembly of his fans at Carnegie Hall. The “Hassidic Chant,” as
Robeson entitled it, is a version of the Kaddish (Memorial Prayer)
attributed to the Hasidic rebbe (master), Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev
(1740–1810), a piece also known as the “Din Toyre mit Got” (“The
Lawsuit with God”). According to tradition, Levi Yizhak had composed
the song spontaneously on a Rosh Hashanah as he contemplated the
steadfast faith of his people in the face of their ceaseless suffering. He is
said to have stood in the synagogue before the open ark where the Torah
scrolls reside and issued his complaint directly to God:

a gut morgn dir, riboynoy shel oylem;
ikh, levi yitzhak ben sarah mi-barditchev,
bin gekumen tzu dir mit a din toyre fun dayn folk yisroel.
vos host-tu tzu dayn folk yisroel;
un vos hos-tu zich ongezetst oyf dayn folk yisroel?
A good day to Thee, Lord of the Universe!
I, Levi Yitzhak, son of Sarah, from Berditchev,
Bring against you a lawsuit on behalf of your People, Israel.
What do you have against your People, Israel?
Why have your so oppressed your People, Israel?1

3x 10"78 rpm records in the original album with notes

Condition: EXCELLENT pristine, dusty, album great, tiny roughing at right side edge

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