The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth CenturyWiener, Leo
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The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Wiener, Leo
Yiddish literature -- History and criticism
[38] In a general way the Judeo-German folksong was treated by
I. G. Oršanskij, in his _Evrei v Rossii, Očerki ekonomičeskago i
obščestvennago byta russkich evreev_, St. Petersburg, 1877, 8vo, on
pp. 391-402; more specially by J. J. Lerner, _Die jüdische Muse_,
in _Hausfreund_, Vol. II. pp. 182-198, from which a few songs are
quoted here. The most of the songs given here are from my manuscript
collection made in Boston and New York among the Russian Jews. In the
_Urquell_ folksongs are given in Vol. IV. pp. 119, 120; Vol. V. p.
196; Vol. VI. pp. 43, 158; Neue Folge, Vol. I. pp. 45, 50, 82, 83,
175, 239-242; Vol. II. pp. 27-29, 39, 40. Cf. B. W. Segel, _Materyały
do etnografti żydów wschodnio-galicyjskich_, in _Zbiór wiadomości do
antropologii krajowej_, Vol. XVII. pp. 306-319.
[39] The legend has been admirably treated by the historian, S. A.
Beršadskij, in _Evrej korol' polskij_, in the _Voschod_, Vol. IX. Nos.
1-5.
[40] The _Urquell_ (see above) gives some children's songs. See also
L. Wiener, _Aus der russisch-jüdischen Kinderstube_, in _Mitteilungen
der Gesellschaft für jüdische Volkskunde_, _herausgegeben von
M. Grunwald_, Hamburg, 1898, Heft II, pp. 40-49; R. F. Kaindl,
_Lieder, Neckreime, Abzählverse, Spiele, Geheimsprachen und allerlei
Kunterbuntes aus der Kinderwelt, in der Bukowina und in Galizien
gesammelt_, in Z. d. V. f. V., Vol. VII. pp. 146, 147. In Linetzki's
_Dās chsidische Jüngel_, p. 23, a number of children's songs are
mentioned by title.
[41] See the prototype of this song in K. Francke, _Social Forces in
German Literature_, p. 120.
[42] See p. 142 ff.; add to these A. M. Dick, _Der soldatske Syn._
Wilna, 1876, 16mo, 108 pp., which gives a graphic description of the
career of a cantonist.
[43] Cf. Dr. Sokolowski, _Die Gseere vun Gonto in Uman un' Ukraine, in
Volksbibliothēk_, Vol. II. pp. 53-60.
[44] Max Weissberg, _Die neuhebräische Aufklärungs-literatur in
Galizien. Eine literar-historische Charakteristik._ Leipzig und Wien,
1898, 8vo, 88 pp.
[45] The first two weeklies of Galicia, the _Zeitung_ and _Die
jüdische Post_, published in 1848 and 1849 respectively, are not in
the vernacular, but in a slightly corrupt German.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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