[46] The love for songs is very old with the German Jews. Steinschneider's catalogue in the _Serapeum_ mentions a very large number of songs. See also L. Löwenstein, _Jüdische und jüdisch-deutsche Lieder_, in _Jubelschrift zu Ehren des Dr. Hildesheimer_, Berlin, 1890, pp. 126 ff., and under the same title, in _Monatschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums_, Vol. XXXVIII. pp. 78-89; A. Neubauer, _Jüdisch-deutsches Weingedicht_, in _Israelit Letterbode_, Vol. XII. 1. p. 13 ff. But the most thorough work is by F. Rosenberg, _Ueber eine Sammlung deutscher Volks-und Gesellschafts-lieder in hebräischen Lettern_, Berlin, 1888, 8vo, 84 pp. That the modern songs are set to music is generally indicated in the title-pages or the introductions to the printed collections, as, for example, Lieder zu singen mit sēhr schoene Melodien; Schoen zum Singen un' zum Lesen; Mit sēhr schoene Melodien. In one of his books Zunser (see pp. 90 ff.) informs us: Ōb ihr lejent in Büchel meine Lieder, Un' die Melodie hāt män euch nit übergegeben, Is' dās wie a photographische Bild, liebe Brüder,-- Dacht sich, Alles richtig, nor es fehlt Leben. INTRODUCTION TO HAMNAGEEN. While another, B. Z. Rabinowitsch (in _Disput vun a Schüler mit a Klausnik_), thinks he must offer an apology for not having composed a tune for his poem: Mit wās far a Melodie ihr wet spielen, Wöllen die Wörter gewiss nāchtanzen! Zunser, who did not scruple to make use of other people's property (see p. 92), objects, in _Kol-rina_, to the people's appropriation of his songs in the following words: Wie me hāt mich gehört a Māl zu zwēi, Is' schōn gewe'n auf morgen geschrieben bei see: Es hāt mir vardrossen sejer Müh', 'chleben, Un' hāb' see besser a fartigen, a gedruckten gegeben. [47] _Voschod_, 1886, No. 5. [48] The only collection of Judeo-German poetry accessible to those who do not read the Hebrew type is G. H. Dalman's _Jüdisch-deutsche Volkslieder aus Galizien und Russland_, Zweite Auflage, Berlin, 1891, 8vo, 74 pp.; unfortunately there are a number of errors in it that destroy the sense of some lines. See also L. Wiener, _Popular Poetry of the Russian Jews_, in _Americana Germanica_, Vol. II. No. 2 (1898), pp. 33-59, on which the present chapter is based. [49] His poems have been printed in the following periodicals: _Kolmewasser_, Vol. I. Nos. 4, 5, 6 (_Dās Gräber-lied_) _et seq._; _Warschauer jüdische Zeitung_; _Jisrulik_, No. 13; _Jüd. Volksblatt_, Vol. II. No. 10; _Wecker_, pp. 26-29; _Jüd. Volksbibliothēk_, pp. 148-153. [50] Katzenellenbogen, _Jüdische Melodien_ (_q.v._), p. 55, note. [51] This I merely surmise, from the statement in the _Sseefer Sikorōn_, that he wrote it in 1863, in Kiev, though it is probable that he did not print it before 1869. For biography of Linetzki, see pp. 161 ff.