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Daniel Kahn

“This Land is Your Land” in Yiddish

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“Dos Land iz Dayn Land” Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” Yiddish Translation by Linda Gritz & Daniel Kahn with Harry Bochner, Michael Alpert, & Josh Waletzky Video and…

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Mentshn-Fresser, feat. Sveta Kundish & Daniel Kahn. This 100-Year-Old Yiddish Pandemic Song Could Have Been Written Today

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In 1916, Solomon Smulevitz, a Yiddish musician and entertainer who immigrated to America from Belarus, wrote “Mentshn-Fresser.” The song’s title means “man eater,” or “devourer of mankind.” Written by Solomon…

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Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released” in Yiddish

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In a new video produced by the Forverts, Berlin-based Yiddish singer and songwriter Daniel Kahn performs his own recent Yiddish translation of Bob Dylan’s 1967 song, “I Shall Be Released”.…

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Daniel Kahn presents “Yiddish Blues in Berlin”

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Featuring new and old songs of hope and despair in Yiddish and English. The Detroit-born and Berlin-based Kahn has toured the world as a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, translator, and teacher. He…

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