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Anthology of Yiddish folksongs

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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. (Hebrew, English and Yiddish)

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Anthology of Yiddish folksongs, Aharon Vinkovetzky

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1984
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Title
Anthology of Yiddish folksongs
Language
English
Released
1984
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Hardcover
ISBN10
9652234478
ISBN13
9789652234476
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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. (Hebrew, English and Yiddish)