116:. He showed his patriotism in an early song, "Kolombus, ikh hob tzu dir gornit" (Columbus, I’ve Got Nothing Against You!), with the words: “And I have nothing against you either, America! You’re very good to us, and life here is happy; you’re okay!" In "Got Un Zayn Mishpet Iz Gerekt" he alludes to the 1903 pogrom in Russia. An ardent Zionist, he also wrote "Zion's Liedel."
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59:. Growing up in a poor family he had to go to work in a match factory at a young age. He had his start there as a songster by singing for his co-workers. In 1888 his father came to the U.S. To support himself and his family, and to pay for his passage to America, he sang
123:," who have been credited with creating the genre of Yiddish parodies of American hit songs. The coupletists generally used the songs to discuss the plight of the Jewish immigrants. The genre has been described as the Yiddish equivalent of American popular song.
105:(Heartbreak, Papa and Mama), Myerowitz wrote "Kum, srul, kum aheym" (Come, Little Srul, Come Home). His one act operettas played at all of the 14 Yiddish music and vaudeville houses that once existed in New York simultaneously.
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291:(in German). BoD – Books on Demand.
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438:A gut yor (sung by Joseph Feldman)
386:"When Jews Embraced Tin Pan Alley"
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285:Fernbacher, Boris (2018-02-14).
114:Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
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135:"Got Un Zayn Mishpet Iz Gerekt"
409:Sapoznik, Henry (2011-08-01).
345:Milken Archive of Jewish Music
244:"Lives in the Yiddish Theater"
192:Milken Archive of Jewish Music
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559:Composers from New York City
318:www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
133:"Vos Geven Iz Geven Un Nito"
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160:. Hal Leonard Corporation.
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262:"Dan Wyman Books, LLC"
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51:Meyerowitz was born
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188:"Meyerowitz, David"
95:The Power of Nature
217:"David Meyerowitz"
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97:. When impresario
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