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The Brodersänger or Broder singers from Brody in Ukraine were Jewish itinerant performers in Austrian Galicia Romania and Russia professional or semiprofessional songwriters and performers who from at least the early 19th century sang and danced often in comic disguises and who performed short one-act plays. They were often badchonim (traditional wedding entertainers) and meshorerim (singers in cantors’ choirs).

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