Yiddish Folksongs From the Ruth Rubin Archive

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"Published in cooperation with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research."
Unacc. melodies.
Accompanying sound recording previously released: Jewish life : the old country, Folkways, 03801, 1958.
Love songs and ballads -- Lullabies -- Weddings and marriage -- Children's songs, singing games, riddles, and cumulative songs -- Work and apprentice songs -- Dancing, drinking, and humor -- Soldiers, sweethearts, and wars -- The Hasidic nigunim : songs without words and songs with words -- Anti-Hasidic satires -- Topical songs and songs of social significance and struggle -- Songs of the underworld.
Compact disc contents: Am kodoysh -- A-a lyu lyu -- In a sthetlele pityepoy -- Cheder-boy's: taunts from Galicia -- Vi azoy s'iz nisht git tsu geyn -- Heinich's vayb ; Ot azoy neyt a shnayder -- Hob ich mir a shpan -- A redele iz di gore vel -- A shadchen darf men kenen zayn -- Vos vilsti mutter hobn? -- Indroysn iz fintster -- Fun groys dasad -- Ich lig unter grattes -- Kadril = Quadrille -- Betler lid -- Chassidic tune sung by a man born in Poland -- Husiatiner melody sung by a mord born in Lodz, Poland -- Chassidic hopke sung by a man born in Poland -- Az moshhi : ach vet kumen -- Zog mir mein shvester -- Vos shloft ir, ir shlefer? -- Di mashines klapn -- Ver es hot in blat gelezn -- Fraytig inderfri -- Zayt mir gezint, chovertes ole -- Forn fortsu fun mir avek -- Five wedding tunes on a fiddle -- Shlof mayn kind mayn treyst mayn sheyner.

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