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Precisely in the case of a new and difficult question like “Jewish folk-music,” [ . . . ] it is necessary to establish as much as possible [its] specific, objective characteristics . . . You make fun…
Contributor:
Joel Engel
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1901
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What do we call folk songs? Of course, these are the songs sung by the people. The songs can either come from unknown authors of the ancient, forgotten past . . . or these can be recently written…
Contributor:
Joel Engel
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1901
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Here is a song that I created,
well composed and uncomplicated;
you can call it a song or call it a dirge.
I’d like to tell you some of my troubles:
some men have problems by…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Yom-Tob Magula
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1739