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A Yiddish Lullaby – Pretty Like the Moon – Sheyn vi di levone

Last weekend I recorded my husband’s 92 year old grandmother, Edna Pomerantz, singing a verse of a Yiddish Lullaby. It’s called Sheyn vi di levone, or Pretty Like the Moon, in English.

Here you can hear the recording and read the transliterated Yiddish lyrics, followed by an English translation (the last line might be a little different in the recording):

MP3 of Sheyn vi di levone

Sheyn vi di levone
(Yiddish Transliteration)

Sheyn vi di levone,
Likhtik vi di shtern,
Fun himl a matone,
Bistu mir tzugeshikt!

Pretty Like the Moon
(English Translation)

Pretty like the moon
Bright like the stars
From Heaven you were
Sent to me as a present.

Many thanks to Grandma Edna for singing this song for us and to Monique Palomares of Mama Lisa’s World en français for helping me with the translation!

-Lisa

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While researching this song I came across a site with lots of lyrics to songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Judeo-Spanish, most with English translations.

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This entry was posted on Friday, December 29th, 2006 at 12:27 pm and is filed under Children's Songs, Countries & Cultures, Israel, Languages, Lullabies, MP3's, Mama Lisa, Recommendations, Recordings of Songs, Sites about Music, USA, Yiddish, Yiddish Children's Songs, Yiddish Lullabies. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “A Yiddish Lullaby – Pretty Like the Moon – Sheyn vi di levone”

1. Chaim Katzenellenbogen Says:
   August 22nd, 2008 at 1:02 pm

   I sure did like the beautiful song but grandma Edna, or in yidish bobe Edna.

   I want to let you all know I found a good website with Yiddish songs and entertainment at

   http://www.myoyvey.com

   My favorite video on this site is Seinfeld in Yiddish and Spiderman and the Yiddish alphabet.

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