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Kid Songs and Rhymes of
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Aramaic

English

One Little Goat, One Little Goat (Passover Song)  Midi

Hebrew

English

Dayenu (Passover Song)  
We Brought You Peace (Wedding & Celebration Song)  Midi  
Where is the thumb?   MP3 Midi
Zum Gali Gali (Folk Song)  Midi  

Yiddish

English

The Rabbi Elimelech (Folk Song)  
In The Fireplace   MP3 Midi
 
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About the Yiddish Language

Yiddish is the language of the Ashkenazic Jews (those who at one time lived or had ancestors who lived in eastern and central Europe). It is a Germanic language, written in Hebrew characters. Before the Holocaust, it was spoken by approximately 10 million people. Today, it is spoken by approximately 4 million, mostly in the United States, Israel, Canada, France, Argentina, Mexico and Romania.

Here are some of Mama Lisa's recent posts about the music, culture and traditions of Israel:
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    Open Culture has a page of free language learning links covering 40 languages. Here are some of the languages you can find links for… Arabic, English, Chinese, French, Spanish, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Maori, Norwegian, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Swahili,... Read more »
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    Jewish children play the dreidel game for Hanukkah. Dreidels are tops with four Hebrew letters on them ? one each side of the dreidel. The letters are nun, gimel, hay, and shin. Legend has it that dreidels originated from a time when the Jewish people were forbidden to practice their religion.  The game was invented... Read more »
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    What a great idea to make candy dreidels for Hanukkah!  They’re dreidels made out of marshmallows, with candy kisses attached using Nutella as "glue". Then dipped in chocolate with a mini pretzel stick as the handle.  Check out the recipe at The Shiksa in the Kitchen Blog. Many thanks to Corrine Lewack for pointing out... Read more »
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    Latkes (potato pancakes) are the food of choice for Hanukkah.  That’s because they’re typically cooked in oil and oil is an important symbol for Hanukkah.  The problem is that cooking latkes in all that oil is very unhealthy.  It’s also time consuming to deep-fry them individually.  This year I was determined to come up... Read more »
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    Hanukkah is coming soon. Here are links to some Hanukkah songs, videos, recipes and gift ideas we’ve posted in the past… Happy Chanukah! Mama Lisa Original Photo: Wikipedia (edited by Mama Lisa) Read more »
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    Librivox just released another bunch of recordings of fairy tales in various languages, including Hungarian, Russian, German, English, Italian and Portuguese (with links to the text of each tale). This is the 3rd collection they’ve posted. Fairy Tale Collection #1 also includes recordings in Latvian, Danish, Romanian, Yiddish and French. You can also... Read more »
  • Go Down Moses and Dayenu are well-known Passover Songs. Go Down Moses has its origins in an African American spiritual from the time of slavery. What’s interesting is that the slaves chose the story of Passover to express their situation. Now Jewish people sing it for Passover. Here’s a Passover version of Go Down Moses… Dayenu... Read more »
  • Here’s a Hanukkah song called I’m a Little Latke with a YouTube video… I’m a Little Latke I’m a little latke, round and brown, Here is my upside, here is my down. When I am all ready, take a bite, And eat me up on Hanukkah night. Happy Hanukkah! Mama Lisa Come see our other posts on Hanukkah Songs… Read more »
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    We celebrate many holidays in our house! That’s why I was just checking when Hanukkah is this year. I found out it’s December 11 to December 19. (You can tell I’m behind with my holiday planning!) I have tons of sweet potatoes from the CSA we belong to (where we get veggies... Read more »
  • Today is Rosh Hashanah… the Jewish New Year. Much about the holiday centers around the theme of having a sweet year. One of the greetings for Rosh Hashanah is “Shana tova umetukah”, which is Hebrew for “A good and sweet year”. Apples and honey are served as a symbol of a sweet year. People dip... Read more »

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