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                                                           Freyen Zich Is Gut--Rejoice is good--Радоваться-это хорошо(Russian)
                                                                        
Music and Lyrics: Zelik Barditshever(1851 - ) Singer Nechama Lifshitz (Israel)

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Zejlik Leib Bardichever was born into a poor family in the county Bessarabian town of Balti. His father, Isaac, Duvid Haskelevich Bardichever ( 1851 - ?), Came from Mogilev on the Dniester Podolsk province, from where his
family in 1854 moved to Jewish agricultural colony of Alexander county in Bessarabia. His mother, Chaya Rivka Berkovna Bardichever, was a native of Balti. He was engaged in self-education. Being Melamed (Children teacher) he wandered through the towns and villages of Bessarabia and neighboring Moldova in search of employment. In the 1920s, began writing and performing songs on his own poems in the tradition of itinerant Jewish folk singers ( Broder Zingerov, Velvl Zbarzhera, Elyakuma Tsunzera, Berl Broder and others).By  the 1930s, became a popular, despite the lack of publications in Jewish  publications. Wrote the music to the poems of other poets, such as the popular ELLEGIYA “Fun shheynishn Dorf” (From the neighboring village) Hertz Rivkin. One time was working in a creative organization “Artistic League” (League of Culture), wrote and staged amateur plays. Only in the last years of his life began to be published in the editions of “Chernovitser bleter” (Chernivtsi sheets) and "Ufgang” (Sunrise, Sunset). Bardichever  led roguish life and died of pulmonary tuberculosis in Yasah (Rumania).
 After his death , with the help of the singer and composer Leib Levin and Jewish writer Hersh Segal, in Chernovits had been published a collection of songs with notes Bardichevera «לידער מיט ניגונים» (Leader mit nigunim - Lyrics and melodies, 1939),  reprinted in Montevideo in 1948, and Rehoboth in 1980. Songs  Zejlik Bardichevera performed various performers and continues till present time (Leib Levin, Chava Alberstein, Arkady Gendler, Mikhail Alexandrovich, and others).
  Singer Nechama Lifshitz [Lifshitsaite] was born in 1927 Kaunas-Lithuania. Jewish singer, lyric coloratura soprano. She grew up in a  family with religious traditions. She graduated from the Hebrew school 1928. Lifshitz graduated from the Vilnius Conservatory in 1956. February 1958. Moscow is hosting the All-Union competition of performers. Entertainer announces "Nechama Lifshitsaite, Lithuanian Philharmonic. Folk song "Sick tailor. '" Jury chairman Leonid Utesov stunned the sound of his own language! The  verdict of the jury: first prize! Thus began a phenomenal career of Nechama Lifshitz,


Yiddish
Freyen Zich Is Gut,Freyen Zich Is Gut
Lomir nixt forgessen noh on ain minute
Faterlex mid a koyfun
Gelps mid a bunts nalivaisn
Nemt a gleser  trink lehaim
Lomir ale enainem shrien
Lehaim

English
Rejoice is good, Rejoice is good
Lets all  forgetting not just in one minute
Friends with a smile Helps to be joyful
Lets take a glass of wine and drink to live
Lets everybody together scream
TO LIFE