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Holocaust-era music finds new life.
the Yiddish language and culture alive
contribute to the growing renaissance
of Yiddish culture. To enhance the
renaissance, Workmen's Circle and
avid Beyglman was an ide-
alistic, talented Jewish corn- community partners are developing a
poser and conductor impris- new Yiddish program in the fall."
Raised in a Yiddish-speaking home,
oned during the Holocaust in the Lodz
Cooper is passionate about Yiddish
Ghetto. He lived there for a while,
starving and in despair, making music music and Holocaust education.
"For many years I participated in
when he could, and then was deported
Holocaust commemorative concerts:'
to a death camp where he died.
she said. "But I knew there was so
His younger brother, Henry, also
much more, that even during the war
was a musician — but he survived
a kind of phenomenal vitality existed
the Holocaust and immediately after
— and I was wondering whether
the war returned to work. Together
there was another way of honoring the
with a handful of friends he formed
Holocaust without the focus being on
a new musical group. They toured the
grieving."
displaced persons camps and played
This would ultimately
swing music and songs
lead to her to the music
from the 1930s. They
that had been per-
called themselves the
formed at makeshift
Happy Boys.
clubs in Jewish ghettos
Of course, they had
throughout Poland and
endured a life so brutal
Lithuania. The sound
it hurt just to speak of
— a combination of
it. But still there was
traditional Yiddish songs
that part of them that
fused with Argentinean
remained: young men
tango, cabaret tunes
who loved music and
and American ragtime
singing and playing a
— was completely new.
jazzy beat, and "this was Adrienne Co oper and
"There was a prec-
who they felt they really Zalmen Miot ek
edent of edgy, urban
were says singer and
music [in the secular world] that was
Yiddish authority Adrienne Cooper.
theatrical, topical and political, played
Thanks to the work of musicians
in cabarets throughout Warsaw, Lodz
like Cooper and her performance
and Eastern Europe Cooper said.
partner, Zalmen Mlotek, songs from
Jews in the ghettos "kept that same
the Holocaust period — including
kind of vocabulary and attitude but
works by the Beyglmans — continue.
added their own history and lyrics
But rarely are they weepy, anguished
that were often cynical, heartsick and
tunes. Instead, the music is infused
feisty — lyrics that would "shine a
with a sense of humor — the tra-
light on their own experience."'
ditional Jewish lullaby "Raisins and
Almonds" became "No Raisins, No
Writer Elizabeth Applebaum is a market-
Almonds" — as well as with anger
ing specialist for the Jewish Community
and a blistering honesty.
Center of Metropolitan Detroit.
At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 18,
the Jewish Community Center in
West Bloomfield will host Ghetto
Tango: An Evening of Cabaret Music of
Ghetto Tango: An Evening of
Holocaust Resistance featuring Cooper
Cabaret Music of Holocaust
and Mlotek. The event is sponsored
Resistance will be performed
by the JCC, the Cohn-Haddow Center
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 18,
for Judaic Studies at Wayne State
at the Jewish Community Center
University and the Workmen's Circle-
in West Bloomfield. Tickets are
Arbeter Ring of Michigan.
$7 for students, seniors 60 and
"Audiences of the immensely tal-
over, Workmen's Circle and JCC
ented Adrienne Cooper and Zalmen
members; $10 general public (in
Mlotek quickly become followers','
advance); $15 at the door. For
says Ellen Bates-Brackett, Michigan
tickets, call (248) 432-5577,
Workmen's Circle director. "Cooper's
ext. 7.
and Mlotek's worldwide efforts to keep
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