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Ghetto songs
"Most of the songs were created in the ghettos set up by the Germans in 1940 in Warsaw, Kovno, Vilna, Lodz, Bialystok, Riga, Cracow, and other centers. The songs described the crowded quarters, the food scarcities, the backbreaking toil, the…
Underworld
"The folksongs created in and around the environment of the Jewish underworld communicate the sentiments and experiences of its members and their world. Their songs tell us about uncertainties, hazards and risks involved, apprehensions and fears of…
Lullabies
"The older Yiddish lullabies usually expressed the basic aspiration of the Jewish mother in the Pale, who functioned as wife, parent, and often as provider for the family. In the role of provider lay the deeper meaning of her commitment, which was to…
Social Significance
"During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the songs of the craftsmen and apprentices were but a distant echo. New sounds and rhythms, under the pressure of economical and political struggles against tsarist oppression, were surfacing in a…
Love Songs
"In Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century, of all the categories of Yiddish folk songs, love songs were the most numerous, popular, melodious and poetic. This fact for a time challenged a number of writers on Jewish literature and folklore, who…
Children's World
"From earliest infancy the Jewish child in the Pale heard singing and chanting, humming and intoning. In the home, in the back yard, in the narrow village street, in the cheder, in the synagogue, at the Shabbath table, during holidays, the children…
Hasidic
See "Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive" p. 214
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