Goldfaden a Comp (2 results)

Illustrated sheet music, 13.75" x 10.75". 10 pp. including covers and a nested bifolium and single sheet. CONDITION: Very good, 5" split to cover at upper spine. Arranged for piano and voice. Lyrics in romanized Yiddish in the music, which includes "Shmendrig Opera. Solo Braine mit chor," "Romance Rose," "Duett Rose und David," "Rose mit chor," "Breine mit chor," and "Die Kale heist Paulina. Tanz." The Hebrew Publishing Company was founded in New York in 1901 by Joseph L. Werbelowsky and his son David Werbelowsky, and became part of the bedrock of early twentieth-century Jewish life and culture, publishing prayer books and religious texts as well as Yiddish novels, translations, and sheet music for the waves of Jewish immigrants to New York in the mid-late nineteenth century. The Lower East Side became a vibrant hub of Yiddish-speaking culture, with thirteen theaters (many of them vaudeville houses) producing significant-or sometimes simply prolific-Yiddish authors and composers, including Joseph Rumshinksy, the "Father of Yiddish Operetta," playwright and composer Anshel Schorr, singer and songwriter David Meyerowitz, and longtime collaborators in Yiddish theater Arnold Perlmutter and Herman Wohl, playwright, director, and actor Abraham (Avram) Goldfaden, and others.…

Illustrated sheet music, 12" x 9.25". 4 pp. including covers. CONDITION: Very good, .75" diagonal fold at lower-left corner of p. 3. Arranged for violin and voice. Comprising five "acts": "Raisons and Almonds," "The Wandering in the Desert," "Shulamit at the Well," "Monoach's Prayer," and "David King Israel." Yiddish lyrics printed down the centerfold. The Hebrew Publishing Company was founded in New York in 1901 by Joseph L. Werbelowsky and his son David Werbelowsky, and became part of the bedrock of early twentieth-century Jewish life and culture, publishing prayer books and religious texts as well as Yiddish novels, translations, and sheet music for the waves of Jewish immigrants to New York in the mid-late nineteenth century. The Lower East Side became a vibrant hub of Yiddish-speaking culture, with thirteen theaters (many of them vaudeville houses) producing significant-or sometimes simply prolific-Yiddish authors and composers, including Joseph Rumshinksy, the "Father of Yiddish Operetta," playwright and composer Anshel Schorr, singer and songwriter David Meyerowitz, and longtime collaborators in Yiddish theater Arnold Perlmutter and Herman Wohl, playwright, director, and actor Abraham (Avram) Goldfaden, and others.…