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| Title: | Anthology of Yiddish Folksongs, Volume 7
: The Itzik Manger Volume |
| ISBN: | 9652234478 : 9789652234476 |
| Illustrations: | b/w illus |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 215x280mm |
| Pages: | 250 |
| Weight: | 1.041 Kg. |
| Published: | Hebrew University Magnes Press - January 2004 |
| List Price: | 38.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Jewish studies: Folk music: Yiddish: English |
Text in English & Yiddish. 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.
