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"Jewish Folk Songs in Russia" – Anthology of Jewish Folk-Songs in Yiddish – St. Petersburg, 1901

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Еврейскія народныя пѣсни въ Россіи. собраны и изданы подъ редакціею и съ введеніемъ С.М. Гинзбурга и П.С. Марека [Jewish folk songs in Russia. Gathered, edited and published with an introduction by S.M. Ginzburg and P.S. Mark]. Published by the editorial of the paper "Voskhod", St. Petersburg, 1901. Russian and Yiddish with transcript in Latin characters.
Anthology of 376 Jewish folk songs in Yiddish. Lyrics in Yiddish and Romanized Yiddish.
The anthology was edited by Shaul Ginzburg (1866-1940) – Jewish-Russian journalist, editor, activist, historian and lawyer, and by Peter (Pesach) Mark (1862-1920) – Jewish-Russian journalist, historian and ethnographer.
XXX, 329, [1], XIV, [4] pp, 27 cm. Good condition. Some stains (mainly to title page and to first and last leaves). Dedication in pen on title page and pen inscription on one of the leaves. Slight defects. New binding and endpapers.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Israel Mehlman.
German Literature, Hebrew Literature and Periodicals, Yiddish Literature
German Literature, Hebrew Literature and Periodicals, Yiddish Literature