Sidor Belarsky, born Isidor Livshitz (February 12, 1898 – June 7, 1975), was a Ukrainian

Ukraine

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-American

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 singer born to a Jewish family in Kryzhopol

Kryzhopil

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, Ukraine.

His recording of "Dem Milners Trern" ("The Miller's Tears"), a Yiddish folk song composed by M. M. Warshavsky

Mark Warshawsky

Mark Markovich Warshavsky was a Yiddish-speaking folk poet and composer from the Russian Empire.He graduated from the Law school of Kiev University and practiced law in Kiev. By the influence of Abraham Goldfaden Warshawsky started to write songs and sing them in his circle of friends accompanied...

, was featured in the Coen brothers

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's film A Serious Man

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. The song's subject is the expulsion of Jews from hundreds of villages in Czarist Russia.

Discography

• Forward
  The Forward
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   70th Anniversary: Sidor Belarsky Sings of the Hopes and Dreams of the East Side
  Lower East Side
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  , Lazar Weiner
  Lazar Weiner
  Lazar Weiner was a Ukrainian-born, American-naturalized composer of Yiddish song. He emigrated to America at the age of 17 and later became the music director of the Central Synagogue, New York.-Works:...
  
  , piano. Artistic Enterprises, Inc. (ca. 1967) (presented by the Forward Association and the The Workmen's Circle)