Yanky Lemmer Sings an Old Yiddish Song for Yom Kippur - Reb Nachman Rosen is on Accordion

In this Yiddish lullaby “Ven ikh volt gehat (“If I had the Kaiser’s Treasures”), musician Vladimir Fridman croons: “My child, my crown. When I see you It seems to me That the whole world is mine.” This song was performed by Yiddish theater actress Diana Blumenfeld and recorded by folklorist Ben Stonehill more than 70 years ago. In the summer of 1948, Stonehill recorded more than 1,000 songs from Holocaust refugees who were being housed temporarily at the Hotel Marseilles on New York’s Upper West