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>Anthology of Yiddish Folksongs Vol. VI
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Year:
2002
Catalog number :
45-333006
ISBN:
978-965-493-350-6
Pages:
260
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Weight:
880 gr.
Cover:
Album Format

Anthology of Yiddish Folksongs Vol. VI

The Mark Varshavsky Volume

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Synopsis

Mark Warshavsky was born in Odessa in 1848 and was a poet-composer of many famous Yiddish folksongs. It was Sholom Aleichem who first "discovered" Warshavsky with whom he often appeared in cultural evenings in Kiev. Like some of the early songs of Gebirtig - Warshavsky's songs too became folksongs, the lyrics and melodies spread like wildfire among the Jewish masses.
The appearance of Warshavsky's Der Alef Beys, or as it quicky became known from its first words Oyfn Pripetchek, caused a real revolution in the minds of orthodox as well as progressive Jews in Eastern Europe."