Samuel E. Goldfarb. The goldfarb brothers grew up on the lower east side of new york in a family of 11 children that emigrated from galicia, poland. What isn’t widely known, however, is that “i have a little dreidel” and the melody most ashkenazi jews worldwide use for “shalom aleichem” were written in the.
Goldfarb and his brother rabbi israel goldfarb on may 10, 1918 while sitting. Often called the father of jewish music in america, samuel e.