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Kessler, Sore

Title

Kessler, Sore

Subject

Born: Tzhizhov, Poland, early 1900.
Needle trades worker.
[From blue index, RG 620, box 30]

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Erev yonkiper

Title

Erev yonkiper

Date

1949

Description

She heard this in her Polish shteltl (Festshive??) - when she was 20 or 25 (or in the 1920s?)?

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A mol iz geven a meydele

Title

A mol iz geven a meydele

Date

1947

Description

[Note from tape log on outside of tape box for the original, spliced tape, not included on the tape log of the dupe:] My childhood in Montreal, Canada, is closely bound with my Yiddish education in a secular Jewish school. Many of these rhymes stem from that environment, as well as the one at home, where my Bessarabian-born mother, shared her own childhood memories of games and rhymes and taunts and teasers, with me. Blessed with a retentive memory...I later picked up many more from my informants. Sorele (pretty) & Moshe (small)’s mother goes to the market and doesn’t come back right away... they go into the woods and get lost, meet big, black bear, says what are you doing in the woods, aren't you afraid? I'm going to eat you up. The children promise their mother's poppy cookie. Bear leaves, then came a wolf. Ditto to bear. There is a storm and they are crying. The singer adds another verse - an angel suddenly came & led them out of the woods. 41842

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Fun papir a hendele

Title

Fun papir a hendele

Date

1948

Description

[Note from tape log inside box:] The Children’s World embraces all manner of rhymes, taunts, and teasers, game songs, tales, etc. Where the singer is old, lapse of memory is evident and often several rhymes are combined. My own absorption with this material is also evident and “my mother’s childhood” has become fused with my own, plus, the material which “passed through my hands” (and memory) through my many informants. 41890 Both Ruth Rubin and LOC tapes were digitized. The Ruth Rubin tape is missing some tracks, and when individual tracks were made on 10/2/14 the LOC tape was used. The LOC tape has 37 tracks and Ruth Rubin tape 32. Catalog has been updated to reflect LOC tape and not Ruth Rubin tape.

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Bin ikh a tsigayner

Title

Bin ikh a tsigayner

Date

1948

Description

[In typewritten tape log in tape box this title is given as: Bin ikh a tesegayner] [Possible problem with tape speed of many or all tracks on Tape 25.]

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Farvos iz dos blumele farvyalet

Title

Farvos iz dos blumele farvyalet

Date

1948

Description

[Note from E. Biezunski: A version of the song can be found in Eleanor Mlotek’s songbook “Mir trogn a gezang,” with this note: “Form the poem by the Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941. One version published in 1932 by A. Z. Idelsohn; another in 1946 by Ben Yomen.”] [Note on typewritten tape log in tape box:] Literary origin. [Possible problem with tape speed of many or all tracks on Tape 25.]

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Umet un benkshaft un enlikhes

Title

Umet un benkshaft un enlikhes

Date

1947

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Es kumt der friling

Title

Es kumt der friling

Date

1947

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