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The Ruth Rubin Legacy
Archive of Yiddish Folksongs

Sheyn bin ikh, sheyn

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Title

Sheyn bin ikh, sheyn

Performer

Rubin, Ruth

Gender

Female

Date

1950-1960

Location

New York

Track Number

6

Description

[Note from tape log on outside of tape box for the original, spliced tape, not included on the tape log of the dupe:] My childhood in Montreal, Canada, is closely bound with my Yiddish education in a secular Jewish school. Many of these rhymes stem from that environment, as well as the one at home, where my Bessarabian-born mother, shared her own childhood memories of games and rhymes and taunts and teasers, with me. Blessed with a retentive memory... I later picked up many more from my informants.

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“Sheyn bin ikh, sheyn,” YIVO Online Exhibitions, accessed December 22, 2024, https://exhibitions.yivo.org/items/show/4473.
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