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I will raise the matter of trimming the beard
He trims it away like leaven [on the eve of Passover]
He leaves only a small goatee.
One more…
Contributor:
Unknown
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
Date:
16th Century
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[…] In my confusion
I didn’t know how to answer my detractors, those
who brand me
a poseur because I pronounce the c in the Castilian manner or I say fellow instead of guy (I love)
miscegenations
(pe…
Contributor:
José Kozer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1983
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Sheet music for “Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars,” a comic song about a Jewish businessman on his deathbed trying to collect money owed him. “Yiddish dialect songs” were popular performance pieces…
Contributor:
Irving Berlin
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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The turning wheel runs round and round.
It opens and closes the exit of my gate.
Noisily it turns for ruin and destruction.
My head is split, my entrails spilled.
It chases and it catches…
Contributor:
Solomon de Oliveyra
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
17th Century
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In this volume I have made a selection of religious and holiday songs.
Actually, they constitute a single group, since in reality it is hard to draw a sharp dividing line between the first group and…
Contributor:
Noah Pryłucki
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1910–1911
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There’s a fire in the hearth
Warm and cozy as it gets
The rebbe teaches children
The Hebrew alphabet
Contributor:
Mark Varshavsky
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1900
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Written down while working in the fields, patterned after the Arabic working song and sung to that tune.O I have my life and my labor!Yah ḥai li, li-hah-‘amali!Awaken, my brothers, there’s no time…
Contributor:
Bar-Nash (Noah Shapiro)
Places:
Zikhron Ya'akov, Ottoman Palestine (Zikhron Ya‘aqov, Israel)
Date:
1895