Singing for Your Bread and Butter
Over on the Yiddish Song of the Week blog, Forverts associate editor Itzik Gottesman discusses the ballad “Az es shtarbt nor up dus ershte vaybele” (“As Soon as the First Wife Dies”), as sung by Lifshe Schaechter Widman. Formally, “Az es shtarbt nor up dus ershte vaybele” (“As Soon as the First Wife Dies”) could…