General Bibliography
Adler, Israel. “À la recherche du chant perdu : La redécouverte des collections du ‘Cabinet’ de musique juive de Moisei J. Beregovski.” In Ndroje balendro: Musiques, terrains et disciplines : textes offerts à Simha Arom, 247–67. Paris: Peeters, 1995.
Ausubel, Nathan. A Treasury of Jewish Folklore. Revised edition. New York, NY: Crown, 1989.
Beregovski, Moshe. Old Jewish Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Bohlman, Philip V., and Otto Holzapfel. The Folk Songs of Ashkenaz. Middletown, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., 2001.
Flam, Gila. Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-45. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
Gebirtig, Mordecai, and Menahem Kipnis. Mayne lider. Aroysgegebn durkhn Gebirtig-komitet, 1936.
Gilbert, Shirli. Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Ginsburg, Shaul M., and Pessah S. Marek. Yiddish folksongs in Russia: Photo Reproduction of the 1901 St Petersburg Edition. Edited by Dov Noy. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1991.
Gorali, Moshe, Moshe Bick, and Gideon Almagor. Di goldene pave: Yidishe folkslider [The Golden Peacock: Yiddish Folk Songs]. Sidrah etnomusiḳalit mi-yisudo shel Reʾuven Buniyaḳ. Haifa: Haifa Music Museum and AMLI Library, 1970.
Gottesman, Itzik Nakhmen. Defining the Yiddish Nation: The Jewish Folklorists of Poland. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2003.
Idelsohn, Abraham Zebi. Jewish Music in Its Historical Development. New York, NY: Tudor Publishing Company, 1944.
Lehman, Szmil. Ganovim-lider: mit melodyes. Warsaw: farlag Pinkhas Graubard, 1928.
Leichter, Sinai. Anthology of Yiddish Folksongs: Volume 5 -- The Mordechai Gebirtig Volume. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2000.
Loeffler, James Benjamin. The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.
Mlotek, Eleanor G, and Joseph Mlotek. Pearls of Yiddish Song: Favorite Folk, Art and Theater Songs. New York: Workmen’s Circle, 1989.
———. Songs of Generations = Lider Fun Dor Tsu Dor: New Pearls of Yiddish Song. New York: Workmen’s Circle, 1997.
Mlotek, Eleanor Gordon. “America in East European Yiddish Folksong.” In The Field of Yiddish, 179–95. New York, NY: Linguistic Circle of New York, Columbia University, 1954.
———. Mir trogn a gezang: favorite yiddish songs. New York: Workmen’s Circle Educational Department, 1972.
Mlotek, Eleanor Gordon, and Malke Gottlieb. We Are Here: Songs of the Holocaust. First Edition edition. New York, NY: The Education Department of the Workmen’s Circle, 1983.
Noy, Dov, and Meir Noy, eds. Yiddish Folksongs from Galicia. Jerusalem: Folklore Research Center Studies, Hebrew University, 1971.
Pollack, Herman. Jewish Folkways in Germanic Lands, 1648-1806. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1971.
Sendrey, Alfred. The Music of the Jews in the Diaspora. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1971.
Slobin, Mark. Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
Werner, Eric. A Voice Still Heard: The Sacred Songs of the Ashkenazic Jews. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976.
Wohlberg, M. “The Music of the Synagogue as a Source of the Yiddish Folksong.” Musica Judaica 2, no. 1 (1978 1977): 21–50.
Zunser, Eliakum. “How I Wrote My Songs.” In Memoirs Of My People, edited by Leo W. Schwartz, 221–32. New York, NY: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1943.
IN YIDDISH:
Anski, S. (S. Z. Rappoport. Folklor Un Etnografyie. Vol. Gezamlte shriftn, XV. Vilna-Warsaw-New York: Ferlag Sh. Shreberk, 1925.
Bastomski, S. Baym Kval, Materialn Tsum Yidishn Folklor, Yidishe Folkslider. Vilna: Naye yidishe folkshul, 1923.
Beregovski, Moshe. Yidisher Muzik-Folklor. Moscow: Melukhiser Muzik-Farlag, 1934.
Beregovski, Moshe, and Itzik Feffer. Yidishe Folkslider. Kiev: Melukhe Farlag far di natsionale minderhaytn in U.S.S.R., 1938.
Cahan, Yehuda Leib. Shtudies Vegn Yidisher Folks-Shafung. New York, NY: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1952.
———. Yidishe Folkslider. 2 vols. New York, NY: The International Library Publishing Co., 1912.
———. Yidishe Folkslider Mit Melodyen, Oysdem Folksmoyl. 2 vols. New York: Literasher verlag, 1912.
———. Yidishe Folkslider Mit Melodyes. New York, NY: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1957.
Dobrushin, I., and A. Yuditsky. Yidishe Folkslider. Moscow: Meluche-Farlag Der Emes, 1940.
Feder, Zami. Katset Un Geto-Lider. Bergen-Belsen, 1946.
Fibix, Sarra. Yidishe Folkslider. Moscow: Gosudartsvenoye Isdatelstvo Iskustvo, 1939.
Kaczerginski, Szmerke, H. Leivick, and Michl. Gelbart. Lider Fun Di Getos Un Lagern. New York: Tsiko [Congress for Jewish Culture], 1948.
Kipnis, Menachem. Hundert Folks-Lider. Poylishe Yidntum 43. Buenos Aires: Tsentral-farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine, 1949.
Kipnis, Menahem, and Zimrah Zeligfeld. 80 folḳs lider. Ṿarsha : A. Giṭlin, [19--].
Kisselgof, Zusman. Lider-Zamlbukh. Juwal Verlagsgeschellschaft für jüdische Musik, 1914.
Kotylansky, Chaim. Folksgezangen. Los Angeles: Chaim Kotylansky Book Committee and YCUF Farlag, 1944.
Lehman, Szmil. Ganovim-lider: mit melodyes. Warsaw: farlag Pinkhas Graubard, 1928.
Litvine, A. Manuscript Collection of Yiddish Folk Songs. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, n.d.
Prilutsky, N., ed. Yidishe Folkslider, Gezamlt Un Derklert. Vol. 1. Warsaw: Bikher far ale, 1911.
———, ed. Yidishe Folkslider, Gezamlt Un Derklert. Vol. 2. Warsaw: Naye Ferlag, 1913.
Reingold, Yitskhok. Geklibene Lider. Chicago: L. M. Stein Publisher, 1952.
Reisen, Avrom. Lider Tsum Zingen. New York: A. Reisn Yubl Committee, 1947.
Rubinstein, S. Shriftn Fun a Yidishn Folklorist. 2nd ed. Vilna: Yoyvl komitet, 1938.
Sekulets/Saculet. Yidishe Folks-Lider. Bucharest: Muzik-Farlag, Kompozitorn-farband, RPR, 1959.
Serebriani, I. “Sovetishe Yidishe Folks-Shafung.” In Heymland, No. 1:151–56. Moscow: Meluche Ferlag Der Emes, 1947.
Skuditsky, Z. Folklor-Lider. Edited by Meir Viner. 2 vols. Moscow: Farlag Emes, 1933.
Teitelbaum, A. A Varshaver Heyf. Buenos Aires: Tsentral Farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine, 1947.
Tsidkoni, Yankev. Yidishe Folkslider Fun Erets Yisroel (Di Goldene Keyt, No. 7). Tel Aviv: Histadrut haklelim shel ha-ovdim ha-ivrim b’erets yisrael, 1951.
Warshawsky, M. M. Yidishe Folks-Lider (Introduction by Sholem Aleichem). New York: Max N. Meisel, 1918.
Yaffe, L. Lider Farn Folk. Vilna: Farlag Sifrot, 1920.
Yidishe Sovetishe Folkslider Mit Melodies. Kiev, 1940.
Zeligfeld, Zimrah, and Menahem Kipnis. 140 folḳs-lider. Ṿarshe : A. Giṭlin, 1930.
Zunser, Eliakum. Ale Verk. 3 vols. New York: A. Katsenelenboygn, 1920.
———. Selected Songs of Eliakum Zunser. New York: The Zunser Publishing Co., 1928.
Sources for this bibliography:
Mlotek, Chana, and Mark Slobin, eds. Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive. USA: Wayne State University Press, 2007.
Rubin, Ruth. Voices of a People: The Story of Yiddish Folksong. USA: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Wood, Abigail. And We’re All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America. Routledge, 2016.
https://musicintheholocaust.org/music/yiddish-song-research/
For more, see: Abigail Wood, Index of Yiddish songbooks published c. 1900-2002 - http://www.academia.edu/14771065/Index_of_Yiddish_songbooks_published_c._1900-2002
Online Resources:
Milken Archives of Jewish Music
Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive
The Recorded Sound Archives of Florida Atlantic University Libraries
Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive
Yiddish Book Center
Jewish Music Institute (London, UK)
European Institute for Jewish Music (Paris, FR)
Medem Library - Maison de la Culture Yiddish (Paris, FR)
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