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Booklets with Folk-Songs and Humorous Songs – Vilnius-Warsaw, 19th century / Eliakum Zunser

A volume compiling eleven booklets with folk-songs and humorous songs in Yiddish, by Eliakum Zunser, Eliezer Zvi HaCohen Zweifel and Shmuel Seinweil Feder (most booklets by Zunser). Vilnius and Warsaw, 1884 (or 1874) till 1894. Yiddish.
For a list of the booklets, see Hebrew description. Most of the booklets were composed by Eliakum Zunser (1836-1913); known as "Eliakum Badchen", was a well known Yiddish poet in East Europe and the USA; known as a brilliant improviser of a special sense for folklore and folk-songs. He was named by Itzik Manger "the greatest Jews' cheerer of his generation". Volume 14 cm. Booklets in good condition. Binding torn and damaged.