Bibliography (based on Irene Heskes' bibliography)

Books

A Treasury of Jewish Folksong, in Yiddish and Hebrew

Voice and piano, with annotations and translations; Schocken Books, New York; 1950; 244 pages, 116 selections; paperback edition – Schocken Folio Books, New York; 1964

Voices of a People: The Story of Yiddish Folksong

A.S. Barnes, New York; 1963, 496 pages; enlarged edition, with music – McGraw-Hill Books, New York/Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia; 1973, 558 pages

Jewish Folksongs, in Yiddish and English

1965; Oak Publications, New York; 96 pages; reissued by Music Sales, New York; 1989

Articles

“Yiddish Folksong” in Jewish Survey, New York; 1941

“Yiddish Folksongs in New York City” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1946

“The Secular Folksong of the Eastern European Jews” in Jewish Music Forum, New York 1946/47

“Jewish Folksongs: Weapons in Freedom’s Battle” in The Jewish Fraternalist, New York; 1947

“Yiddish Folksongs of Toil and Struggle” in Today, Toronto; 1947

“Literature on Jewish Music” in Jewish Book Annual, Jewish Book Council of America, New York; 1947/48

“Is There an American Jewish Folksong?” in Music Forum and Digest, Chicago; 1949

“The Folksong of East European Jewry” in Music Forum and Digest, Chicago; 1949

“The Folksong of the French-Canadian People” in Jubilee Journal, Jewish People’s Chorus, Toronto; 1949

“Nineteenth Century Yiddish Folksongs of Children in East Europe” in Journal of American Folklore Society, Richmond (Virginia); 1952

“Israel Adopts the Yiddish Folksong” in Pioneer Women, New York; 1952

“Songs of Yiddish Labor Poets” in Jewish Life, New York; 1953

“Chanukah, A Jewish Holiday” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1953

“Nineteenth Century Yiddish Love Songs” Chicago Jewish Forum, Chicago; 1953/54

“Some European Ancestors of a Yiddish Folksong” in Jewish Quarterly, London (England); 1954

“Y.L. Cahan and Jewish Folklore” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1955

“Nineteenth Century Yiddish Love Songs of East Europe” in Journal of the International Folk Music Council, London (England); 1955

“Mark Warshawsky’s Songs Mirrored Jewish Life” in Sing Out, New York; 1956

“Yiddish Riddles and Problems” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1956

“Some Aspects of Comparative Jewish Folksongs” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1956

“Nineteenth Century History in Yiddish Folksongs” in Jewish Quarterly, London (England); 1958

“Nineteenth Century History in Yiddish Folksongs” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1959

“Yiddish Sayings and English Equivalents” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1959

“Sholom Aleichem and Yiddish Folksongs” in Sing Out, New York; 1959/60

“The Tale of Two Tunes” in Jewish Quarterly, London (England); 1960

“Yiddish Folksongs in French Canada” in Journal of International Folk Music Council, London (England); 1960

“Some Aspects of Comparative Jewish Folksong” in Studies in Biblical and Jewish Folklore, Indiana University Press, Bloomington (Indiana); 1960

“Yiddish Folksongs of Immigration and the Melting Pot” in Recall, Los Angeles; 1961

“Yiddish Folksongs of Immigration and the Melting Pot” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1961

“Yiddish Folksongs of World War II” in Jewish Quarterly, London (England); 1963

“From My Correspondence With Harold W. Thompson” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1964

“From a Collector’s Notebook: Yiddish Anecdotes, Jokes and Sayings” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1964

“Listen to Your Father’s Words: A Yiddish Folk Song” in Jewish Currents, New York; 1964

“A Comparative Approach to a Yiddish Song of Protest” in Studies in Ethnomusicology II, New York; 1965

“Sholom Aleichem’s Famous Lullaby” in The Cantor’s Voice, New York; 1965

“Slavic Influences in Yiddish Folksongs” in Folklore and Society, Hatboro (Pennsylvania); 1966

Warsaw Ghetto Program” issued as an illustrated lecture program for the Workmen’s Circle Organization, New York; 1967

“Yiddish Songs of Social Significance” issued as an illustrated lecture program for the Workmen’s Circle Organization, New York; 1968

“Yiddish Folksongs: an Illustrated Lecture” a program resource for the National Jewish Music Council, New York; 1974 (revised and enlarged version of an article originally issued by the Council in 1948)

“The Jewish Woman and her Yiddish Song” unpublished dissertation, for Union Graduate School, Cleveland; 1976

Articles in the Yiddish Language

“Yidishe folkslider – A Series of Ten Studies on Yiddish Folksongs” in Vochenblatt, Toronto; 1941/42

“Lider fun arbet un kampf – Songs of Work and Struggle” in Morgen Frayhayt, New York; 1941

“Yidisher folklorn in America – Yiddish Folklore in America” in Almanac fun folk, New York; 1947

“Yidishe folkslider – A Series of Ten Studies on Yiddish Folksongs” in Yiddish Kultur, New York; 1948-60

“Yidishe lider – A Series of Three Studies on Yiddish Songs” in Zamlungen, New York; 1954-58

Yiddish Poetry

Lider fun Rivkeh Royzenblatt (“Poems by Ruth Rubin”), privately printed in New York, with a preface by Sh. Niger; 1929

Gebensht ayere hent (“Blest be your hands”), in Morgen Frayhayt, New York; 1944

Lider (“Poems”) in Vochenblatt, Toronto; 1948

Video Documentary on Ruth Rubin

“A Life of Song: A Portrait of Ruth Rubin” directed by Cindy Marshall, in color, 38 minutes, dialogue and Yiddish folksongs; 1986; winner of Chris Bronze Plaque, Columbus International Film Festival. (Cindy Marshall Productions, Somerville, Mass.)