Zelig Bardichever

Zelig Leib Bardichever (Yiddish: זעליק לייב באַרדיטשעװער; 1903–1937) was a Yiddish poet and composer from Bessarabia.^[1] His simple yet elegant poems and songs were written in a folkloric style and described the lives and poverty of artisans and common Jews, and of details of life in Romanian towns in years gone by.^[2][3] Although he died young and many of his songs were not properly documented, some of them were published and performed by Leibu Levin and others who had heard and learned them during Bardichever's lifetime.