Dave Cash (Yiddish comedian)

Dave Cash ({{langx|yi|דייב קאש}}), born Ludwik Slomniker in 1910 in Lemberg, then Austria was a French Yiddish-language comedian, composer, musician and entertainer. He was famous in the Yiddish theater for his song parodies. He was the owner and the main performer of a Yiddish-language cabaret in Pigalle, that had an otherwise typical program for a French cabaret.http://www.jewishmag.com/117mag/yiddishtheater2/yiddishtheater2.htm#FOOTNOTE 13 Several of his humorous songs and stand-up routines were rereleased in Israel in 2004 under the name An Evening with Dave Cash ( ערב עם דייב קאש ).[http://fr.israel-music.com/dave_cash/an_evening_with_dave_cash/ An Evening With Dave Cash Par Dave Cash] In 2015, the Institut Européen des Musiques Juives (European Institute for Jewish Musics) released a set of six CDs including some of his great hits. Dave Cash died in 1981 in Cannes, French Riviera. His wife, Jadwiga Podstolska, died in 2001.

Discography

  • Der Shere fun Seville
  • A'fallen die Blettin
  • Tzures mit Hula Hoop
  • Yiddish Lieder Parade
  • Ich dank dir Gott as ich hob es nicht
  • Dave Cash Presente Ses Fantaisies Yiddish (Avec Didier Boland et Son Orchestre) (released 1956)
  • An Evening With Dave Cash (Compilation CD release 2004)

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