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The Farmer and the Cowman
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Carnes:The farmer and the cowman should be friends,Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends.One man likes to push a plough,The other likes to chase a cow,But that’s no reason why they cain’t be…

Contributor:

Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein

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Date:

1943

Subjects:

Animals, Profession, Community, Rural life, Morality, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry, Popular Poetry
Simkhe Platke, or the Universal Swindler
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Now in that same shtetl there lived a youth named Shimen, but he was nicknamed Simkhe (joy, celebration) and Plakhte (coarse cloth) because he was barefoot and almost naked and that was all he wore…

Contributor:

Yankev Morgenshtern

Places:

Lodz, Russian Empire (Lodz, Poland)

Date:

1870s or 1880s

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Folklore, Shtetl, Rural life, Morality, Fiction

Categories:

Fiction, Folklore