Isaac"). Avraham Levinson - article in Hebrew about Goldfaden on line Abraham Goldfaden Collection at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, NY Free song lyrics in Yiddish and sheet music by Abraham Goldfaden http://ulrich-greve.eu/free/goldfaden.html 1840 births 1908 deaths People from Starokostiantyniv People from Volhynian Governorate Ukrainian Ashkenazi Jews Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Translators to Yiddish Yiddish-language playwrights Hebrew-language playwrights Yiddish theatre performers Yiddish theatre Hazzans 20th-century translators 19th-century dramatists and playwrights from the Russian Empire 19th-century translators 20th-century Russian dramatists and playwrights 19th-century singers from the Russian Empire Jewish Ukrainian actors