Yiddish-language folklore

city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

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Canadian-American folklorist, singer, poet, and scholar of Yiddish culture and music

Jewish prankster (1757–1811)

Lithuanian Yiddish writer (1840–1913)

Jewish folklorist and ethnomusicologist (1892–1961)

Jewish folk song collector and pedagogue

angel in Judaism