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Jewish Children Songs ans Games
Jewish Children’s Songs and Games (sung by Ruth Rubin, with Pete Seeger on the banjo), Folkways Records [cat. FC 7224], New York; 1957
Jewish Life: "The Old Country"
Jewish Life: “The Old Country “ Ethnic Recordings, Collected and Edited by Ruth Rubin (sung by informants, as collected by Ruth Rubin), Folkways Records [cat. FG 3801], New York; 1958/1964
Nahum Lipovski (1874-1928)
Nahum Lipovski was a celebrated theater impresario, master of multiple languages, and mathematical savant who energized the Yiddish theater scene during the many decades of his activity. He was born in Nesvizh, Russia to pious parents but was…
Mississippi, 1935
Commissioned by the avant-garde director Michal Weichert, Leib Malach'sMississippirecounts the story of the "Scottsboro Boys" of Alabama, falsely accused of rape in 1931.First staged in Warsaw in 1935, Weichert staged the action among theater-goers…
He, She, and I: An Erotic, Futuristic, Cubist Play, A Kaleidoscope in One Act by Korntayer, theater program
A program for an evening that featured a production of Fishke the Lame, an adaptation of the nineteenth-century novel by Mendele Moykher-Seforim, and He, She, and Iby a playwright, operetta-composer, and dramaturg known only as S. Korntayer. Active…
Younin, Wolf
See his biography in the "Guide to the YIVO Archives"Wolf Younin himself collected Yiddish folksongs, which you can listen to on the website Yiddish Song of the Week.His obituary in the New York Times.
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