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The Ruth Rubin Legacy
Archive of Yiddish Folksongs

Documents

In the YIVO archives, Ruth Rubin Collection is referred to as RG (Record Group) 620. It includes her field recordings (reel-to-reel tapes, 78 records), as well as her notebooks with song lyrics and notes from her readings, books and discs from her library, some correspondence, singable English translations of Yiddish songs, manuscripts of her unpublished dissertation "Jewish Woman and Her Folksong," and of her articles (from drafts to published versions).

English singable translations of Yiddish songs by Ruth Rubin

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Letter to Irwin Silber, editor of "Sing Out", Feb. 13, 1963

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Typed manuscript of the introduction text for publication in "Sing Out" (March 1963)

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White and Silent is the Starry Night (Partizaner Lid)

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White and Silent is the Starry Night (Partizaner Lid)

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"A lid" (Zyamele)

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Victory March of the Survivors

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The March of the Survivors (Warsaw Ghetto Memorial March)

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Warsaw Ghetto Memorial March. March of the Survivors

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March of the Veterans of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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March of the Veterans of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (lyrics)

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My Shoes Are Torn, My Shoes Are Worn

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My Shoes Are Torn, My Shoes Are Worn

Yugnt Hymn (Hymn of the Ghetto Youth)

Yungnt Hymn (Hymn of the Ghetto Youth)

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We Survive (Zog Nit Keynmol)

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Ghetto Songs published in "Sing Out" April-May 1963

Ruth Rubin's book of poetry Lider, published by Y.L. Magid in New York in 1929

(digitized by the National Yiddish Book Center)

Autobiographical text by Ruth Rubin about her grandmother Elka