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Holiday Songs: Purim

Gebrakht shalekh-mones

Title

Gebrakht shalekh-mones

Date

1956

Description

Includes all the holidays. Dropout towards beginning of song.

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Yakhne-Dvoshe fort in shtot

Title

Yakhne-Dvoshe fort in shtot
Homen-tashn

Date

1961

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Haynt iz Purim, brider

Title

Haynt iz Purim, brider

Date

1956

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Haynt iz Purim, brider

Title

Haynt iz Purim, brider

Date

1956

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Ikh bin payats fun der gantsener velt

Title

Ikh bin payats fun der gantsener velt

Date

1961

Description

From Mekhires-Yoysef shpil. Source: Allan Warshawsky’s tape.

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Ruvn, du bist der ferter zun fun Yankev

Title

Ruvn, du bist der ferter zun fun Yankev

Date

1961

Description

This old lady tells and sings or intones from her own recollection of the Mekhires-Yoysef shpil. Source: Allan Warshawsky’s tape.

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Aran, aran, lozt mikh aran

Title

Aran, aran, lozt mikh aran
Arayn, arayn, lozt mikh arayn

Date

1962

Description

Recorded again in 1967 (song 11)

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Purim shpilers

Title

Purim shpilers

Date

1948

Description

The informant, born in Ivia, Lithuania, recalls the Purimshpilers and the Purimshpil songs of her home town. (See Ruth Rubin’s article in Yiddish Folklore No. 3)

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Megiles Ester (reading)

Title

Megiles Ester (reading)

Date

1958

Description

The informant recites from the Book of Esther, as he recalls it from his home town in Bessarabia. Source: Leyzer Axelbank’s tape

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Aran, aran, lozt mikh aran

Title

Aran, aran, lozt mikh aran
Arayn, arayn, lozt mikh arayn

Date

1967

Description

Also recorded in 1962 (song 7)

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A gitn Pirem alekh

Title

A gitn Pirem alekh

Date

1948

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