Velvel Zbarjer

An actor as much as a singer, he variously sang the praises of his own footloose life and made up topical songs about whatever might be going on in the towns he passed through; the latter often described injustices, or made fun of the Hasidic Jews, and occasionally got him tossed out of various towns.

His first published poem, written in Hebrew and based on a Talmudical parable, appeared in "Kokebe Yizhak," xii.

His Yiddish songs were published with a Hebrew translation in four parts, under the collective name "Makkel No'am" (Vienna, 1865, and Lemberg—now Lviv—1869–78).

Gustaf Hermann Dalman's "Jüdisch-Deutsche Volkslieder aus Galizien und Russland," pp.

[4] He is the subject of Canadian writer Jill Culiner's travelogue A Contrary Journey (Claret Press, 2021).