Love Songs

Title

Love Songs

Description

"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 were not able to justify this rich body of song within a community which was essentially patriarchal in structure and restrictive in its religious observance. Regardless of the constant struggle against secularity by the rabbinate, love songs were current among the people and, within their genre, were excellent reflectors of prevailing customs of mating prior to marriage, of the struggle to break away from the rigid rules imposed upon the young generation by the community and parents, as well as of sentiments of great tenderness and beauty." (Ruth Rubin, Voices of a People, 1963, pp. 70-71).

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“Love Songs,” YIVO Online Exhibitions, accessed December 23, 2024, https://exhibitions.yivo.org/items/show/2145.

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