BADKHN
KHONEN (ḤANAN)
(1840s-early 20th century)
He lived in Smorgon (Smarhon,
Smargon), Vilna district, where he was, aside from a wedding entertainer (badkhn), also a popular musician, a
chorister with cantors, and—when there were no celebratory events, for example
during the days of counting the omer—he
worked as a cobbler. He brought out a
number of collections of his entertaining verses, such as: Seu zimra, shtetl zikh for melodyen (Performing melodies), “(a) a
song of precious money in an oppressive world; (b) a song of the sunbathers”
(Vilna: A. H. Katsenelenboygn, 1877), 16 pp.; Shir nekhmad, oder di reyne neshome (A charming poem, or a pure
soul), “(a) a poem like the soul supporting an angel” (Vilna, 1877), 44 pp.; Shire ḥedva, dray
naye lider tsum zingen mit melodyen (Poems of joy, three new poems to sing
with melodies), “(a) With the apple tree; (b) From the false world, as one
deludes a Talmud student in a marriage arrangement” (Vilna: Hillel Dvorzets,
1874), 32 pp.
Source:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol.1.
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