Sidor Belarsky
Sidor Belarsky, born Isidor Livshitz (February 12, 1898 – June 7, 1975), was a Ukrainian-American singer born to a Jewish family in Kryzhopol, Ukraine.[1]
His recording of "Dem Milners Trern" ("The Miller's Tears"), a Yiddish folk song composed by M. M. Warshavsky, was featured in the Coen brothers's film, A Serious Man. The song's subject is the expulsion of Jews from hundreds of villages in Czarist Russia.[2]
Discography
- Forward 70th Anniversary: Sidor Belarsky Sings of the Hopes and Dreams of the East Side, Lazar Weiner, piano. Artistic Enterprises, Inc. (ca. 1967) (presented by the Forward Association and the The Workmen's Circle)
Notes
- ↑ Belarsky History
- ↑ Anthology of Yiddish Songs, ed. Vinkovetszky, et al, Mount Scopus Publications, Magnes Press, vol two, p. 123, 1984
External links
- Dem Milners Trern - Sidor Belarsky (with lyrics translation) on YouTube
- Sidor Belarsky Official Website
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