Solomon Smulewitz

b. Russian Empire 1868 and emigrated to U.S. in 1889. d. 1943 Songwriter, lyricist, bard, actor, badkhn (wedding entertainer), balladeer, and early recording singer Solomon Shmulevitsh [a.k.a. Small] was born in Minsk, Belarus, and immigrated to the United States in 1889. He was one of the most prolific and talented of the early Yiddish composers who fashioned a type of Yiddish counterpart to American popular song around the turn of the 19th–20th century and in the immediately ensuing years.