"Leibu Levin (born 1914 in Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Duchy of Bukovina, Austria-Hungary died 1983 in Herzliya, Israel) was a narrator of Yiddish literature, singer and composer who ...
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wrote in Yiddish. During his last years, he emigrated to Israel.
Levin was born in the town of Campulung in 1914. In 1919 he moved to Czernowitz. He studied Yiddish language and literature in the Seminar of the "Yiddisher Shul-Farayn" and at the same time appeared with recitals of Yiddish prose and poetry, often singing his own melodies. Levin´s first recitals were warmly acclaimed by the linguist and philologist Dr. Haim Gininger. In a long article, published in the literary magazine "Di Vokh" on January 31, 1935, he wrote: "Leibu Levin showed himself to be an excellent interpreter of Yiddish poetry... Levin is perhaps the first interpreter of Manger. Never before have we been so intoxicated by the specific Manger landscape and its fragrance as when Levin recited Manger´s ballades..."" - (en.wikipedia.org 13.09.2020)
