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Lot #    20767
Auction End Date    5/6/2008 12:07:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Yudishe folḳs-lieder
Title (Hebrew)    יודישע פאלקס-ליעדער: מיט צוויי פאררעדעס
Author    Mark M. Warshawski
City    Odessa
Publisher    Farlag Moriyah
Publication Date    1919
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    93 pp. 204:161 mm., light age staining. A good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Paragraph 1    A volume of Yiddish folk songs by Mark Warshawski, with two forewords written by Shalom Aleichem. This title appeared in a number of editions, beginning in 1901.
          
Detailed
Description		    Mark Warshawski (1848–1907), Yiddish poet. Born in Odessa, he practiced law in Kiev. Warshawski wrote both the words and the music of his songs. He also improvised couplets and sang them at various gatherings. but remained unaware of the literary and folk quality of his songs until Shalom Aleichem encouraged him to publish them. Shalom Aleichem wrote the introduction to Warshawski's Yudishe Folkslider mit Noten (1900). A second edition, with additional poems, was published in Odessa (1914) and a third edition in New York (1918). A fourth edition, edited by S. Rozhansky (Rollansky), appeared in Buenos Aires in 1958. Warshawski's songs and poems, written in a simple, unsophisticated style, describe the joys and sorrows of everyday life. In contrast to many writers of his period, who were generally critical of Jewish ways, he wrote with enthusiasm about customs and modes. "Oyfn Pripetchik," glorifying the old-fashioned heder, became one of the most popular Jewish songs, and attained the status of a folk song. His wedding songs and his hymns to Zion brought cheer, comfort, and hope to Russian Jews under czarist oppression.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Music:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Yiddish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica