>Anthology of Yiddish Folk songs
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Year:
1985
Catalog number :
45-333003
ISBN:
978-965-493-946-6
Pages:
288
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Weight:
960 gr.
Cover:
Album Format

Anthology of Yiddish Folk songs

Volume III

Synopsis

Vols. 1-4

Presented here is a collection of 350 songs in four volumes, complete with the music, the words in Yiddish and in transliteration into Latin characters, and translations or summaries in English and Hebrew. A comprehensive and lyrical introduction by Abba Kovner, opens the Anthology. Kovner traces the sources of Yiddish song, recreates the pre-war East European Jewish world in which the songs are rooted, and fuses memory with history to make the material live.