Anthology of Yiddish folksongs : volume two

by Aharon Vinkovetzky (Compiler)

Other authorsAbba Kovner (Contributor), Sinai Leichter (Contributor), Daniela Passal (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 1983

Status

Available

Call number

R 784.4 VIN Vol.2

Genres

Collection

Your library

Publication

Jerusalem : Mount Scopus Publications by the Magnes Press, 1983

Description

Presented here is a collection of 350 songs in four volumes, complete with the music, the words in Yiddish and in transliteration into Latin characters, and translations or summaries in English and Hebrew. A comprehensive and lyrical introduction by Abba Kovner, opens the Anthology. Kovner traces the sources of Yiddish song, recreates the pre-war East European Jewish world in which the songs are rooted, and fuses memory with history to make the material live. (Hebrew, English and Yiddish)

Subjects

Language

English, Hebrew

Original language

Yiddish

Physical description

29 cm

ISBN

9652234478 / 9789652234476

Local notes

Library holds in the Reference collection : Volumes one to four of this seven volume set.
Anthology of Yiddish folk songs

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