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Zol zayn

Title

Zol zayn

Date

1965

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Mu, mu, beheymele

Title

Mu, mu, beheymele

Date

1965

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Vos ikh hob gevolt, hob ikh oysgefirt

Title

Vos ikh hob gevolt, hob ikh oysgefirt

Date

1965

Description

[Group sings along.]

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Geyen mir shpatsirn

Title

Geyen mir shpatsirn

Date

1965

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Hostu gehert a mayse

Title

Hostu gehert a mayse

Date

1965

Description

{Note from tape log inside box:] Fragment.

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Eyn kol vayn

Title

Eyn kol vayn

Date

1965

Description

[Loud hum & volume problems on tape.] Song about different alcoholic drinks. Rubin states she learned the song in Elat from the Sabras.

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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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A shnayder zingt a lid vegn a zelner un redt tsu dem vayb

Title

A shnayder zingt a lid vegn a zelner un redt tsu dem vayb

Date

1965

Description

Informant explains in Yiddish that the song is a very sad one about a soldier who remains on the front. He sings in Slavic language and intersperses non-song Yiddish translation as well as a Jewish nign at the end.

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Oyfn hoykhn barg

Title

Oyfn hoykhn barg

Date

1965

Description

[Notes on spine of tape box:] Misc. Ballads. Love Songs. Dance Songs. [Notes on back of tape box:] Tape No. 56 of 101. LWO No. 12,330 ?? Speed 7.5. Tracks: Full. Mono. Tape #63: Ballads, Love, dancing songs. Yiddish. Every day a young man comes to play his fidl for a young, beautiful woman who lives alone in a little house the woods on a mountain with a stream. They look to heaven as a star falls.

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Mamenyu, lyubenyu

Title

Mamenyu, lyubenyu

Date

1965

Description

In 3/4 meter. The lyrics partly say, Be still, help me put out the fire in my heart. She falls in love with a handsome young man. They go take a walk on the boulevard...He assaults her... One can believe today’s young men the way one believes a dog on the street.

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Kh’bin in feld oyf velder fraye

Title

Kh’bin in feld oyf velder fraye

Date

1965

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Khanele du mayne

Title

Khanele du mayne

Date

1965

Description

Words: He: Come with me my fine Khanele. She: I can’t, I’m ashamed - people gossip and point fingers. He: The world will see - you are my bride.

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Der himl fartsornt

Title

Der himl fartsornt

Date

1965

Description

[note from RG 620 black book Literary origin?]

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In droysn geyt a regn

Title

In droysn geyt a regn

Date

1965

Description

[note from RG 620 black book work song]

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Mit a nodl, on a nodl

Title

Mit a nodl, on a nodl

Date

1965

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Kayn Kotsk fort men nisht

Title

Kayn Kotsk fort men nisht

Date

1965

Description

(Chassidic song which Dr. Stupp learned from a delegate from Mexico, aon the ship returning from the Zionist Congress, held in Italy in 1946)

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Reb Nakhman Bratslev hot geheysn

Title

Reb Nakhman Bratslev hot geheysn

Date

1965

Description

[note from RG 620 black book Chassidic-modern]

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Volt ikh gehat gilderne fligl

Title

Volt ikh gehat gilderne fligl

Date

1965

Description

[note from RG 620 black book Chassidic] (first phrase was unfortunately cut off)

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Er zol zayn a beyter far zayne khsidim

Title

Er zol zayn a beyter far zayne khsidim

Date

1965

Description

[note from RG 620 black book Anti-Chassidic song, obviously written by a Maskil]

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