Rivkele - Rebeka Yiddish Tango

Rivkele, Rebeka
Music: Z.Białostocki, Yiddish text: unknown
Olga Avigail & Tango Attack
vocal: Olga Avigail, piano: Hadrian Tabęcki, bandoneon: Grzegorz Bożewicz, guitar: Piotr Malicki
Performed in Cultural Center Wilanów Warsaw
...(from Polish Jewish Cabaret):
The tango Rebeka was perhaps Polish Jewish composer Zygmunt Białostocki's most beloved and often-recorded song. It's said that people requested it so often at the nightclubs, they would request it a second time while it was still playing the first time! Bialostocki used snatches of familiar chasidic niggunim (melodies) to tell the story of a poor Jewish shopkeeper's assistant who falls in love with a handsome goy when he comes to buy newspapers and dreams of a better life with him...
In Yiddish version, which maybe was sung by Tadeusz Faliszewski, Rivkele is rejecting the love of polish nobleman, because of her attachment to Jewish tradition

Видео Rivkele - Rebeka Yiddish Tango канала Olga Mieleszczuk