Di Yomtevdike Teg-The Holidays-Праздничные дни
Music and Lyrics by M.Warshawski(1848-1907) Singer - Nekhama Lifshsitz
Mark Markovich Warshavsky (Russian: Марк Маркович Варшавский; born in Odessa 1848, died in Kiev, 1907) was a Yiddish-speaking folk poet and composer from the Russian Empire. Warchawsky met with Sholem Aleichem when He was 42 years old, in 1890. Sholom Aleichem after listening to his songs was amazed. He said to him "Why do not you print such songs? If I would not know that you wrote and composed those songs, I would swear that I heard them from my mother!" In 1900 In Kiev Warshavsky, by Aleichem's full cooperation, published his first collection "Jewish People's songs".
Mark Markovich included in this collection best of his songs such as "Der Alef-Beis", "A Brif fun Amerike" and Di Yomtevdike Teg. In these songs he described the Jewish life in the Russian Empire. The book was republished not only in Russia, but abroad as well. .
Mark Markovich included in this collection best of his songs such as "Der Alef-Beis", "A Brif fun Amerike" and Di Yomtevdike Teg. In these songs he described the Jewish life in the Russian Empire. The book was republished not only in Russia, but abroad as well. .
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