Velvel Zbarjer
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title:
Velvel Zbarjer
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Velvel Zbarjer, birth name Benjamin Wolf Ehrenkrantz, a Galician Jew, was a Brody singer. Following in the footsteps of Berl Broder, his "mini-melodramas in song" were precursors of Yiddish theater. Born in Zbarazh, Galicia, he moved to Romania in 1845. According to Sol Liptzin, this move was occasioned by the offense his townspeople took at his "heresies and scoffing verses". He worked briefly as a schoolteacher in Botoşani, but soon became an itinerant singer, singing in the homes of wealthy J
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Galician Jewish Brody singer
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvel_Zbarjer
date created:
2005-01-14T03:39:16Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T20:30:01Z
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