The Great Sea Misfortune of the Titanic

Yehoshue Rayzner

1913

A terrible calamity on the great ocean
Happened to the ship Titanic at night
It crashed hard into an iceberg
Suddenly the ship began to sink,
The strongest, best ship in the world,
Carrying thousands of passengers with it,
Poor and rich, jewelry and gold,
Famous people, also millionaires,
Men and women sinking together,
Finding their graves in the…
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Yehoshue Rayzner

ca. 1860–1915

Very little is known about Yehoshue Rayzner, a blind Yiddish singer and songwriter born in Łódź. Rayzner spent his entire life in Russian Poland as a wandering street singer and entertainer. His poetry was similar to that of badkhonim, traditional wedding singers. Two of Rayzner’s poems, “Di amerikaner shif” (“The American Ship”) and “Di shreklikhe teg in Lodz” (“The Terrible Days in Łódź”), were published in Leyb Morgenshtern’s 1911 collection of Yiddish theater songs. He died in Warsaw, supposedly from starvation.

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