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We recorded Pasiones, with my niece Katrina on piano, in front of a live audience at WFMT Studio in Chicago in 1997. Pasiones: Songs of the Spanish Civil War would see many live performances, radio appearances, and is one of our most beloved recordings. I first heard Rozhinkes mit Mandlen in 1996 while researching music for a folk-cabaret Michael Smith and I were creating, based on the stories and songs of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the brave battalion that fought as part of the International Brigades. She is rocking her son Yidele (a name that also means “little Jew”) and singing of his future: He will find himself flung across the world and his calling will be to trade in raisins and almonds.” Read more about the song here: DISCOVERING A CLASSIC Pasiones CD cover )with Michael, Jamie & Katrina) “Rozhinkes mit mandln opens with the widow, Bas Tsioyn, sitting in a corner of the Temple in Jerusalem. One example is “Unter yankele’s vigele” (Under Yankele’s Cradle).” “Though Rozhinkes mit mandlen is usually attributed to Avrom Goldfaden (it appeared in his 1880 operetta called Shulamis), Goldfaden was reworking a well-known Yiddish folksong with numerous variations. This holiday season, as Hanukkah approaches Sunday, I offer this song, with a solemn wish for unity, peace and sweet memories of family, and those who’ve gone before us.