Badchen information

A badchen or badkhn (Yiddish: בּדחן) is a type of Ashkenazic Jewish professional wedding entertainer, poet, sacred clown, and master of ceremonies originating...

(Eliakim Badchen, Elikum Tsunzer) (October 28, 1840 – September 22, 1913) was a Lithuanian Jewish Yiddish-language poet, songwriter, and badchen who lived...

Europe, Klezmers did traditionally accompany the vocal stylings of the Badchen (wedding entertainer), although their performances were typically improvised...

spelling of any of Badhan (disambiguation) An alternative spelling of Badchen All pages with titles containing Badhen This disambiguation page lists...

went by the stage name Professor Seiden, was a professional magician, Badchen, vaudeville entertainer, barber, and Yiddish-language recording artist...

Romania. They were descended from Shimson Eizik Ovitz (1868–1923), a badchen entertainer, itinerant rabbi and himself a dwarf. He fathered ten children...

LeZion Rosh yeshiva Savoraim Segan Talmid Chacham Tzadik Archipheracite Badchen Cantor This title has a different meaning in Reform Judaism. Gabbai Kohen...

have four children. After his wedding, Schmeltzer tried to find work as a badchen (entertainer) for weddings. Though he had no formal musical training, he...

Velvel Zbarjer (1824, Zbarazh – 1884), birth name Benjamin Wolf Ehrenkrantz (a.k.a. Velvl Zbarjer, Zbarjur, Zbarzher, etc.), a Galician Jew, was a Brody...

Sigmund Mogulesko (16 December 1858 – 4 February 1914) — Yiddish: זעליק מאָגולעסקאָ Zelik Mogulesko, first name also sometimes spelled as Zigmund, Siegmund...

children in the streets of Łódź. His poems have been compared to that of a Badchen, the traditional Jewish wedding entertainer and coupletist of Eastern Europe...

(Mordechai Chabad) (c.1820-c.1880) was a Jewish Lithuanian (litvak) jester (badchen) from Vilnius known from many Jewish jokes. Mordechai complained: "Had...

Peysekhe (Paul) played violin, clarinet, and was an improvising wedding poet (Badchen); of his thirteen sons, Moyshe played violin, French horn, and valve trombone...

in Rzeszów or nearby Leżajsk in 1874. His father, Alter Zehngut, was a badchen and klezmer musician, and his mother was named Ester. His brother Zygmunt...

anglicized name Solomon Small, was a Russian-born American Tenor, folk poet, Badchen, playwright, recording artist, and composer for the Yiddish theatre. He...

Bellow once put it, "Oppressed people tend to be witty." Jesters known as badchens used to poke fun at prominent members of the community during weddings...

Berl Broder (1817–1868), born Berl Margulis, was a Ukrainian Jew born in Podkamen, the most famous of the Broder singers (19th century Jewish singers comparable...

Yemen during the time of the Prophet Mohammed An alternative spelling for badchen, a type of Jewish entertainer All pages with titles containing Badhan Badham...

between 1924 and 1927. The paper was published by Aser Zelig Weiss, a badchen (Jewish wedding entertainer) famous in the city. The publication was popular...

turn were beholden to the yet older and still vital tradition of the badchen's (wedding jester's) improvisatory art. He published his first collection...

Isaevna Fletzinger. His grandfather Y'shayah was also a famous singer and Badchen (wedding entertainer) in Vilnius. Each of the Gnessin children appears...

music, or imitations of scenes from Eastern European Jewish life involving Badchens and klezmers. His recurring characters Yente and Mendel were featured on...

Shloyme Prizament (1889-1973) (also Shlomo or Szlojme Prizament or Szlomo Prizment), Jewish composer, actor in the Yiddish theater, and badkhn, son of...