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VIDEO: ‘Shtisel’ bubbe Lea Koenig in a Yiddish music video

JL;DR SUMMARY Lea Koenig, famed for her role in 'Shtisel,' captivates audiences in a new Yiddish music video where she sings 'Kum zhe mame,' a Yiddish adaptation of a 1964 Russian song. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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ShtiselYiddish TheaterNostalgiaYiddish SongLea KoenigKum Zhe MameMother Child RelationshipRussian Song AdaptationMoshe SacharYaniv Goldberg

Places mentioned

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"performs in Israel, particularly in the Tel Aviv Yiddish theater, Yidishpiel and all over the world."
Bucharest, Romania
"where she studied at the National University of Arts in Bucharest and began acting in local Jewish theater productions."
Łódź, Poland
"Lea Koenig was born in 1929 in Łódź, Poland."
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
"her family escaped to Tashkent, in Soviet Uzbekistan."

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