Yikhes (Roots)…………………..………………………………….traditional, Ukraine.
Opens with a plaintive clarinet doina (Romanian shepherd’s lament).
 
Shabbos nign(Sabbath  Melody)..................................…...……….traditional, Ukraine. 
This piece is from the Breslever Hasidim of Ukraine.  Its wordless melody (like scat singing) is intended to make it easier to talk to God --  no words get in the way!

Stretch ’n’ Kvetch…………………………………………………………………..USA.
Yiddishe Cup’s shtickmeister (dance leader) leads the crowd in Jewish Oy-robics.

Second Avenue Square Dance ………………………...Abe Ellstein, Dave Tarras, USA.
Classic Dave Tarras, in a swinging 1950s arrangement by pianist Abe Ellstein.

Oyfn Pripitshik (At the Hearth) …………. . . . .. .. . . . . . .  Mark Warshawsky,  Poland.
A Yiddish song about teaching children the aleph-beys ( Hebrew alphabet).

Gypsy…………………..................................................……………....traditional, Europe.
Based on  clarinetist Dave Tarras’ version.   Tarras, who immigrated to New York from Ukraine in 1921, was one of  America’s top klezmer instrumentalists.

Trombonik Tantz (Boaster’s Dance) …………. …...….Nat Farber, Mickey Katz, USA.
The Yiddish word trombenik is similar to the Slavic for “horn” or “trombone.”  A trombenik, however, is  somebody who blows his own horn -- a bit too much.  Trombonist  Si Zentner, who played with Mickey Katz and Tommy Dorsey,  debuted this tune.  “It’s yontifdik (festive) . . . zol zayn mit glick (go with  luck) . . .”

My Yiddishe Mama  (My Jewish Mother)….. J. Yellen, L. Pollack, A. Douglass, USA.
This was a big hit, in English, for Sophie Tucker in 1928.  The record’s flip side was in Yiddish. Yiddishe Cup’s rendition quotes the blues, Goldfinger, the doo-wop classic Little Darlin' and the theme from the Patty Duke Show.

Tatar Dance.............................................................................……......traditional, Crimea.
Jews and others from the Middle East and Eastern Europe share this piece.