Note 36 — INDEX
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Footnote 36:
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Mandelkern, Dibre Yeme Russyah, iii. 98; American Israelite, nos. 15, 18, etc. (My Travels in Russia); Gordon, Ha-Azamot ha-Yebashot, Odessa, 1899; AZJ, 1854, p. 22; Zunser, Biography, New York, 1905, pp. 15-19 (Engl. transl., pp. 14-18); Shenot Ra'inu Ra'ah, in Ha-Meliz, 1860; Sefer ha-Shanah, iii. 82-101, and GMC, nos. 43-50. One of these songs runs as follows:
On the streets in tears we're wading, In our bairns' blood we might be bathing; What a misfortune, ah, wellaway— Will never dawn the better day? Little infants from heder are torn, And forced to wear the soldier's uniform; What a misfortune, etc. Our leaders, rabbis, and honored elders, E'en help to impress them for the czar's soldiers; What a misfortune, etc. Seven sons has Zushe Rakover, Yet not a one for the army is over; What a misfortune, etc. Leah, the widow, has an only son, And for the kahal's sins he's gone; What a misfortune, etc.