[note from RG 620 black book Literary origin?]

[Note on typewritten tape log in box:] *born in Europe Among the songs created in the USSR there are both anonymous ones and authored songs. I have tried to separate out some of the singers: into those who were born in Europe (*), those who were born and brought up in the USSR and those who were born in the United States. Those born and brought up in the USSR include in their repertoire, songs created for the Jewish children in their own secular schools, during the 20s and 30s. (**) Dora Wasserman, for instance, was talented dramatically and she recalls song from productions and operettas too. While Ina Ship, remembers the songs from the schools. [Audio problem on one track.

[Note on typewritten tape log in box:] *born in Europe Among the songs created in the USSR there are both anonymous ones and authored songs. I have tried to separate out some of the singers: into those who were born in Europe (*), those who were born and brought up in the USSR and those who were born in the United States. Those born and brought up in the USSR include in their repertoire, songs created for the Jewish children in their own secular schools, during the 20s and 30s. (**) Dora Wasserman, for instance, was talented dramatically and she recalls song from productions and operettas too. While Ina Ship, remembers the songs from the schools. [Audio problem on one track.

[Note on typewritten tape log in box:] *born in Europe Among the songs created in the USSR there are both anonymous ones and authored songs. I have tried to separate out some of the singers: into those who were born in Europe (*), those who were born and brought up in the USSR and those who were born in the United States. Those born and brought up in the USSR include in their repertoire, songs created for the Jewish children in their own secular schools, during the 20s and 30s. (**) Dora Wasserman, for instance, was talented dramatically and she recalls song from productions and operettas too. While Ina Ship, remembers the songs from the schools. Volume level low.

[Note from tape log on outside of tape box for the original, spliced tape, not included on the tape log of the dupe:] Sung first in gibberish, then in Yiddish clearly... 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.

Same melody as "Nor a mame" (by D. Einhorn, composer unknown), from the movie "Mir kumen on". Published in Mlotek E. & J., Songs of Generations

(work song)

[Spoken introduction by informant, explaining that he’s singing a grown-up song first in baby-talk, then as an adult would sing it. Title written twice on tape log: once in baby-talk, then rewritten.]
[Handwritten note on outside of tape box:] Interview (song recall) with Sh. Kacerginsky, [sic Kaczerginsky] Vilna Ghetto Partisan. [Tape log handwritten in Yiddish alef-beyz on 3 index cards.]