Berl Broder

Berl Broder (actually: Berl Margulies, named after his birthplace Brody in Galicia, * 1815, † 1868 in Ploieşti ) was one of the first Jewish folk poet and folk singer -propelled ( Badchanim ) and as such is a direct precursor of the Yiddish theater.

Life

He came from a poor family, became already apparent in his earliest youth by his eloquence and his wit and theme in his songs which he go in his own way, improvising lectured as a hard-drinking bristle merchant, in licensed premises and hostels, the sufferings of the simple always favored the Jewish people, is the singer of the " disinherited " and " disenfranchised ".

In his texts, social motives dominate. From the raging around him fighting between Haskalah and traditionalists he remained untouched, none of it penetrated into his songs.

Berl Broder pervaded with other singers and fun makers who joined him soon and you together, " Broder singer " called successfully Galicia, Russia and Romania. The first Jewish folk singer company contributed to these places, the troubadours or minstrels not unlike Broders songs as well as older Jewish folksongs. Broder himself had his travel industry soon abandoned and turned to all the new profession, had become popular, and his songs were sung to anywhere in the Jewish street folklore.

The songs were rarely written down, so much is lost; smaller collections appeared in 1876 in Lviv, Zhytomyr and 1882 in Warsaw (the latter under the title of Shire Zimra ).

Berl Broder, who died in Ploieşti 1868, was one of the teachers of distinctly superior of the literary quality of his poetry ago Jewish folk singer Welwel Zbarzer.

Literature (selection )

• Nathan Michael Gelber, Berl Broder, a contribution to the history of Jewish folk singer, the 1909 Vienna
• Article Berl Broder, in: travel, dictionary ..., 1914
• Article Berl Margulies, in: Wininger, Chernivtsi 1925 ff (Vol. IV )
• Article Berl Broder, in: Jewish Encyclopedia, Berlin 1927 (Vol. I)
• L. Slutzky: Margulies Berl. In: Austrian Biographical Encyclopaedia 1815-1950 ( ÖBL). Volume 6 Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7, page 85
• Shlomo Pryzament: Los Cantores de Brody ( Broder Zyngier ). . Buenos Aires: Union Central Israelita Polaca 1960 225 pp. - Coleccion " El Polaco Judaismo ", Vol 151
• Israil Bercovici, O Suta de ani de teatru în România evreiesc, Bucharest 1998
• David G. Roskies, The Jewish Search for a Usable Past, Indiana University Press, 1999

• Folk singer
• Literature ( Yiddish )
• Literature (19th century)
• Born in 1815
• Died in 1868
• Man