Raisins and Almonds

"Raisins and Almonds" (Yiddish: ראָזשינקעס מיט מאַנדלען, romanized: Rozhinkes mit Mandlen) is a traditional Jewish lullaby popularized in the arrangement by Abraham Goldfaden (1840-1908) for his 1880 Yiddish musical, "Shulamis".

It has been recorded as both a vocal and instrumental by many artists over the years, including Itzhak Perlman, Chava Alberstein, Benita Valente, and Ella Jenkins.

It is a common lullaby among Ashkenazi European Jews (Ashkenazim).

Several ghetto writers used Goldfaden's lullaby as the basis for new songs: out of the Kovno Ghetto came In Slobodker yeshiva (In the yeshiva of Slobodka); in the Łódź Ghetto, Dovid Beygelman and Isaiah Shpigl wrote Nit keyn rozhinkes, nit keyn mandlen (No raisins, no almonds).

[3] One verse of the song appears in the Herman Wouk novel War and Remembrance in Yiddish as well as an English translation, and also in the TV miniseries based on the book.