Yiddish song is a general description of several genres of music sung in Yiddish which includes songs of Yiddish theatre, Klezmer songs, and "Yiddish...
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see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish, pronounced [ˈ(j)ɪdɪʃ], lit...
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Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Ashkenazi Jewish community. The range of Yiddish...
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The Yiddish King Lear (Yiddish: דער ייִדישער קעניג ליר Der Yidisher Kenig Lir, also known as The Jewish King Lear) was an 1892 play by Jacob Gordin, and...
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Daloy Politsey (category Songs in Yiddish)
(Yiddish: דאַלוי פּאָליציי, lit. 'Down with [the] Police'), also known as In Ale Gasn (Yiddish: אין אַלע גאַסן, lit. 'In Every Street') is a Yiddish-language...
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of Israel. Several of the Yiddish symbols are drawn from Yiddish songs in the klezmer tradition. The Golden Peacock (Yiddish: די גאלדענע פאווע) has historically...
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Di Shvue (category Songs in Yiddish)
written by S. Ansky (pseudonym of Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport), in 1902. This Yiddish song became the anthem of the socialist General Jewish Labour Bund in the...
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Der Rebbe Elimelech (category Songs in Yiddish)
Elimelech is a Yiddish song published in 1927 by the communist satirist Moyshe Nadir and loosely based on the song Old King Cole. (first verse) Yiddish lyrics:...
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Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II is an album by Six Degrees Records which consists of Yiddish songs written during World War II and the Holocaust...
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In Zaltsikn Yam (category Songs in Yiddish)
the Bund", is a Yiddish poem written by S. Ansky in 1901 and published in Der Arbeyter a year later. It became a popular Yiddish song when music was added...
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