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There is no need to provide evidence concerning the great value of folk songs when one wishes to study the history of a people—any people—and all it has undergone. Alongside the history books of each…
Contributor:
Shaul Ginsburg, Peysakh Marek
Places:
Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1898
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Arthur Kolnik dedicated his illustrations of Y. L. Peretz’s story, “A gilgl fun a nign” (The Transmigration of a Melody), to his brother, who, along with his family, was murdered in the Holocaust…
Contributor:
Arthur Kolnik
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1948
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(The songs)
It frightens us so,
With our poor wares to go
And face the wide world and its scorn.
We have lived many days,
But know only the ways.
Of the villages where we were born.
(The author)
Yo…
Contributor:
Pesach-Elijah Badkhn
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1871