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Samuel Adler

… many other orchestral, band, chamber and choral works and songs, which have been performed all over the world. He is …

Judah Loeb [Yehude-Leyb] Cahan

… to Warsaw, where he frequently attended Saturday night folksong recitals at the home of writer I. L. Peretz. After a … planned to publish all of his works (collections of folk songs and folktales, and theoretical works), but only the …

Nissan Cohen-Melamed

… as cantor and Ba'al Koreh, as can be seen in some of his songs that were based on verses from the bible ('Pitchu Li … important group of Melamed's compositions were his children songs. The most famous of these is ' Hanukiya Li Yesh ,' …

Mordecai Gebirtig

… bard, both composing the lyrics and melodies for his songs. His work became popular throughout the Diaspora long … wife and two daughters. In 1967, a selection of his last songs written in the Cracow Ghetto were published in Hebrew …

Nikolai Kaufman

… and singing psalms from holy books. He loved to sing old songs in Yiddish…but his children never learned them. Only … words, was a huge one indeed. And she probably learned the songs he used to sing most often.” Kaufman’s mother, Ida …

Eleanor Gordon Mlotek

… survivor she had met the previous summer playing Yiddish songs on a mandolin at Rockaway Beach in New York but who … Yiddish Poetry') that included the feature ' Readers Recall Songs ,' and which invited readers to submit Yiddish songs …