Chronicle of the Jews during the Cossak Uprising, with Folksongs and Poems.
Title:
Chronicle of the Jews during the Cossak Uprising, with Folksongs and Poems.
Description:
“Memorial Chronicles of Jews in Podolya in the days of the Cossak Uprising.” Sent by Menakhem Nokhem Litinsky to Simon Dubnow. Includes detailed citations of Ukranian and Yiddish folksongs about the atrocities that occurred in 1648-1657, and later at Bar, with a Hebrew translation; A Ukranian folksong about Cossack life, with a Hebrew translation; a song sung by Podolian peasants with a Hebrew translaton; a Hebrew selichah (penitential) prayer commemorating the Jewish martyrs of Nemirov and Tulchin; a poetic rendition of the persecutions, in Hebrew, with a Yiddish translation.