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 Polish Jewish Cabaret): The tango Rebeka was perhaps Polish Jewish composer Zygmunt Białostocki s most beloved and oftenrecorded 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 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