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Rivkele, Rebeka Music: Z.Białostocki, Yiddish text: unknown vocal: Olga Avigail, piano: Hadrian Tabęcki, bandoneon: Grzegorz Bożewicz, guitar: Piotr Malicki. The tango Rebeka was perhaps Polish Jewish composer Zygmunt Białostocki's most beloved and often-recorded song. It's said that people requested it so often at the nightclubs, they would request it a second time while it was still playing the first time! Bialostocki used snatches of familiar chasidic niggunim (melodies) to tell the story of a poor Jewish shopkeeper's assistant who falls in love with a handsome goy when he comes to buy newspapers and dreams of a better life with him...