Name:
Prager, Jacob
Name (Yiddish):
פּראַגער, יעקבֿ

Songs written or composed

Lekoved Shabos (Prager) — לכּבֿד שבּת (פּראַגער)

Author:
Prager, Jacob — פּראַגער, יעקבֿ
Composer:
Olshanetsky, Alexander — אָלשאַנעצקי, אַלעקסאַנדער
Genre:
Theater
Subject:
Sabbath/Food/Shabos
Additional song notes:
From the Maurice Schwartz production of "The Water Carrier".
Sheet music:
Folder:
343
Series:
4
Arranged for:
Voice/Piano
Texts:
Transliteration
Publisher:
Alexander Olshanetsky
Date:
1937
Provenance:
Schper-Rosenthal Sheet Music Collection, Gift of Faye & Jerry Rosenthal
Mel & Shrifra Gold Project, NYBC Catlg #:
118
First line:
Lekoved Shabes veln mir banayen di shkrabes fin di eyer….
Notes:
Black lettering, Yiddish/English. From Maurice Schwartz production of The Water Carrier. Drawings of a water carrier and two men (Schwartz/Olshanetsky). Two songs in folder: Lekoved Shabes and Ikh Trog Vaser.

Ikh Trog Vaser — איך טראָג וואַסער

Author:
Prager, Jacob — פּראַגער, יעקבֿ
Composer:
Olshanetsky, Alexander — אָלשאַנעצקי, אַלעקסאַנדער
Genre:
Theater/Lament
Subject:
Occupation/Water Carrier/Misery
Additional song notes:
From the Maurice Schwartz production of "The Water Carrier".
Sheet music:
Folder:
344
Series:
4
Arranged for:
Voice/Piano
Texts:
Transliteration
Publisher:
Alexander Olshanetsky
Date:
1937
Provenance:
Schper-Rosenthal Sheet Music Collection, Gift of Faye & Jerry Rosenthal
Mel & Shrifra Gold Project, NYBC Catlg #:
118
First line:
Ikh trog vaser tog eyn tog oys. Yor eyn yor oys ikh trog….
Notes:
Black lettering, Yiddish/English. Drawing of water carrier and two men's faces (Olshanetsky and Schwartz). From Maurice Schwartz's production "The Water Carrier".