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Oy mame, dultshe mame

Title

Oy mame, dultshe mame

Date

1965

Description

[Note in typewritten tape log in box:] Rumanian, a folk melody. Informant states in Yiddish the Jews sang according to their soul (neshome). [In between verses, sings a melody/wordless nign popular with 1990s klezmorim perhaps Arye Lesh’s nign]

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“Oy mame, dultshe mame,” YIVO Online Exhibitions, accessed October 7, 2024, https://ruthrubin.yivo.org/items/show/1989.
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