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Oremer Arbeter -- Vos vet zayn der sof?

Title

Oremer Arbeter -- Vos vet zayn der sof?

Date

1957

Description

From tape marked “Literary Origin.” Note on tape log inside box:] Text and Tune: Isaac Reingold. Same tune [as Tape 57 Song 15], different interpretation!

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Shnirele mayne

Title

Shnirele mayne

Date

1957

Description

[Note on typewritten tape log in tape box:] From Lazar Axelbank’s wire recorder. Mrs. Skolnik said she had written [Tape 71] No. 2, based on the tune of the older Yiddish folksong “Mekhuteneste mayne.”

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Nayntsn-zeks

Title

Nayntsn-zeks

Date

1956

Description

[Note in typewritten tape of inside box:] Mr. Miller said he wrote this. [Handwritten note in same log:] 1906-1956!

He was carrying Shalokh mones (gifts of food exchanged at Purim), he’d gotten married, but Nicholas marred his happiness by taking him as a soldier. His wife remained with her father, he had a huge backpack, he had to leave his old home... He’s no writer or poet, but wanted to leave his “story.” (audience laughs)

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In a shtetele Pityepoy

Title

In a shtetele Pityepoy

Date

1948

Description

[Note from tape log on outside of tape box 12 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. 41842

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Shpits boydim on erd

Title

Shpits boydim on erd

Date

1957

Description

[Tape 13 Songs 19 & 20] These two were collected during a group session at a branch lbrary in New York City. 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. 41842

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Ens tsvey dray

Title

Ens tsvey dray

Date

1957

Description

[Tape 13 Songs 19 & 20] These two were collected during a group session at a branch library in New York City [Bronx].

[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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In a shtetele pityepoy

Title

In a shtetele pityepoy

Date

1948

Description

[Note from tape log inside box:] The Children’s World embraces all manner of rhymes, taunts, and teasers, game songs, tales, etc. Where the singer is old, lapse of memory is evident and often several rhymes are combined. My own absorption with this material is also evident and “my mother’s childhood” has become fused with my own, plus, the material which “passed through my hands” (and memory) through my many informants. 41890 Both Ruth Rubin and LOC tapes were digitized. The Ruth Rubin tape is missing some tracks, and when individual tracks were made on 10/2/14 the LOC tape was used. The LOC tape has 37 tracks and Ruth Rubin tape 32. Catalog has been updated to reflect LOC tape and not Ruth Rubin tape.

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Sholem aleykhem

Title

Sholem aleykhem

Date

1948

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Lomir ale in eynem

Title

Lomir ale in eynem

Date

1961

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Lomir alemen bagrisn

Title

Lomir alemen bagrisn

Date

1961

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Sholem aleykhem

Title

Sholem aleykhem

Date

1948

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Lomir ale in eynem

Title

Lomir ale in eynem

Date

1961

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Lomir alemen bagrisn

Title

Lomir alemen bagrisn

Date

1961

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Sholem aleykhem

Title

Sholem aleykhem

Date

1948

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Lomir ale in eynem

Title

Lomir ale in eynem

Date

1961

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Lomir alemen bagrisn

Title

Lomir alemen bagrisn

Date

1961

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Klip-klap in goldn tir

Title

Klip-klap in goldn tir

Date

1957

Description

[Note in typed tape log in box:] New York Public Library.

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Kh’vel mikh nisht lozn

Title

Kh’vel mikh nisht lozn

Date

1948

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