Tuesday 8 August 2017

MOYSHE MARAKHOVSKI

MOYSHE MARAKHOVSKI
            He came from Boslev (Bohuslav, Boguslav), Kiev district, Ukraine.  He published several collections of his wedding entertainer and popular songs: Der elnter yosem (The lonely orphan), “lovely Jewish songs” (n.p.: M. M. Belinsonm, 1872), 32 pp.; Yontefdige lider (Holiday songs), “or everyday songs with holiday melodies, a satirical critique of life in verse” (Warsaw, 1886); Hagode in hayntiger tsayt (The [Passover] Haggada in our own time) (Warsaw, 1885).  M. Basin included in his anthology Marakhovski’s song “Barkhu.”

Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1.


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