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Niggun of Four Stanzas
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A notated version of a wordless Hasidic niggun, melody, attributed to Shneur Zalman of Liady, the founder of Chabad Hasidism.

Contributor:

Shneur Zalman of Liady

Places:

Lyady, Russian Empire (Lyady, Belarus)

Date:

ca. 1800

Subjects:

Music, Exile, Hasidism, Yiddish, Mysticism, Performing arts

Categories:

Performing Arts, Music
Page of sheet music.
The Tale of the Ba‘al Shem and the Dybbuk
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This is no fairy tale, it really happened. In our shtetl, there was a bright young man named Móyshele. He was as smart as a whip, and also a good-for-nothing. Then all at once he disappeared, and no…

Contributor:

Sonya the Wise Woman (Sonya Naimark)

Places:

Mogilev, Russian Empire (Mogilev, Belarus)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Hasidism, Angels, demons & deities, Shtetl, Kabbalah, Mysticism, Folklore

Categories:

Folklore