Berl Broder
Berl Broder (1817–1868), born Berl Margulis, was a Ukrainian Jew born in Podkamen, the most famous of the Broder singers (19th century Jewish singers comparable to the troubadours or Minnesänger) and reputed the first to be both a singer and an actor. His nickname is the origin of the term Broder singer. Thirty of his songs survive; of these, 24 are in the form of dialogues, usually between craftsmen such as tailors or shoemakers; his songs are seen as a precursor to Yiddish theater.
Also recorded as Berl Margulis
Berl Broder
- Full name
- בער מרגליות.
- Died
- 1868. · Ploiești.
- Occupation
- singer, actor and musician.
- Languages
- Yiddish.
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Berl Broder (1817–1868), born Berl Margulis, was a Ukrainian Jew born in Podkamen, the most famous of the Broder singers (19th century Jewish singers comparable to the troubadours or Minnesänger) and reputed the first to be both a singer and an actor. His nickname is the origin of the term Broder singer. Thirty of his songs survive; of these, 24 are in the form of dialogues, usually between craftsmen such as tailors or shoemakers; his songs are seen as a precursor to Yiddish theater.
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Recorded at birth as בער מרגליות. Born at Brody in 1815, died in Ploiești in 1868.
The recorded working language is Yiddish.
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Berl Broder died in 1868 at Ploiești.
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- 1.https://archive.org/details/nybc207372 Dray doyres̀: lider fun Berl Broder (Margulies), feliṭonen fun Yom Hatsyoni (Yitsḥaḳ Margulies), poemen un lider fun Ber Margulies (1957)
- 2.Bercovici 1998.
- 3.Roskies 1999, p. 94.
- 4.Zalmen Zylbercweig, Leksikon fun Yidishn teater, Book one, 221-227
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