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Archive of Yiddish Folksongs

Ruth Rubin's Bibliography

Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive

Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive

by Ruth Rubin, edited by Chana Mlotek and Mark Slobin. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, in cooperation with YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2007. CD included. 288 pp.

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Bibliography (based on Irene Heskes' bibliography)

Books

A Treasury of Jewish Folksong, in Yiddish and Hebrew

Voice and piano, with annotations and translations; Schocken Books, New York; 1950; 244 pages, 116 selections; paperback edition – Schocken Folio Books, New York; 1964

Voices of a People: The Story of Yiddish Folksong

A.S. Barnes, New York; 1963, 496 pages; enlarged edition, with music – McGraw-Hill Books, New York/Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia; 1973, 558 pages

Jewish Folksongs, in Yiddish and English

1965; Oak Publications, New York; 96 pages; reissued by Music Sales, New York; 1989

 

Articles

“Yiddish Folksong” in Jewish Survey, New York; 1941

“Yiddish Folksongs in New York City” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1946

“The Secular Folksong of the Eastern European Jews” in Jewish Music Forum, New York 1946/47

“Jewish Folksongs: Weapons in Freedom’s Battle” in The Jewish Fraternalist, New York; 1947

“Yiddish Folksongs of Toil and Struggle” in Today, Toronto; 1947

“Literature on Jewish Music” in Jewish Book Annual, Jewish Book Council of America, New York; 1947/48

“Is There an American Jewish Folksong?” in Music Forum and Digest, Chicago; 1949

“The Folksong of East European Jewry” in Music Forum and Digest, Chicago; 1949

“The Folksong of the French-Canadian People” in Jubilee Journal, Jewish People’s Chorus, Toronto; 1949

“Nineteenth Century Yiddish Folksongs of Children in East Europe” in Journal of American Folklore Society, Richmond (Virginia); 1952

“Israel Adopts the Yiddish Folksong” in Pioneer Women, New York; 1952

“Songs of Yiddish Labor Poets” in Jewish Life, New York; 1953

“Chanukah, A Jewish Holiday” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1953

“Nineteenth Century Yiddish Love Songs” Chicago Jewish Forum, Chicago; 1953/54

“Some European Ancestors of a Yiddish Folksong” in Jewish Quarterly, London (England); 1954

“Y.L. Cahan and Jewish Folklore” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1955

“Nineteenth Century Yiddish Love Songs of East Europe” in Journal of the International Folk Music Council, London (England); 1955

“Mark Warshawsky’s Songs Mirrored Jewish Life” in Sing Out, New York; 1956

“Yiddish Riddles and Problems” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1956

“Some Aspects of Comparative Jewish Folksongs” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1956

“Nineteenth Century History in Yiddish Folksongs” in Jewish Quarterly, London (England); 1958

“Nineteenth Century History in Yiddish Folksongs” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1959

“Yiddish Sayings and English Equivalents” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1959

“Sholom Aleichem and Yiddish Folksongs” in Sing Out, New York; 1959/60

“The Tale of Two Tunes” in Jewish Quarterly, London (England); 1960

“Yiddish Folksongs in French Canada” in Journal of International Folk Music Council, London (England); 1960

“Some Aspects of Comparative Jewish Folksong” in Studies in Biblical and Jewish Folklore, Indiana University Press, Bloomington (Indiana); 1960

“Yiddish Folksongs of Immigration and the Melting Pot” in Recall, Los Angeles; 1961

“Yiddish Folksongs of Immigration and the Melting Pot” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1961

“Yiddish Folksongs of World War II” in Jewish Quarterly, London (England); 1963

“From My Correspondence With Harold W. Thompson” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1964

“From a Collector’s Notebook: Yiddish Anecdotes, Jokes and Sayings” in New York Folklore Quarterly, New York; 1964

“Listen to Your Father’s Words: A Yiddish Folk Song” in Jewish Currents, New York; 1964

“A Comparative Approach to a Yiddish Song of Protest” in Studies in Ethnomusicology II, New York; 1965

“Sholom Aleichem’s Famous Lullaby” in The Cantor’s Voice, New York; 1965

“Slavic Influences in Yiddish Folksongs” in Folklore and Society, Hatboro (Pennsylvania); 1966

Warsaw Ghetto Program” issued as an illustrated lecture program for the Workmen’s Circle Organization, New York; 1967

“Yiddish Songs of Social Significance” issued as an illustrated lecture program for the Workmen’s Circle Organization, New York; 1968

“Yiddish Folksongs: an Illustrated Lecture” a program resource for the National Jewish Music Council, New York; 1974 (revised and enlarged version of an article originally issued by the Council in 1948)

“The Jewish Woman and her Yiddish Song” unpublished dissertation, for Union Graduate School, Cleveland; 1976

 

Articles in the Yiddish Language

Yidishe folkslider – A Series of Ten Studies on Yiddish Folksongs” in Vochenblatt, Toronto; 1941/42

Lider fun arbet un kampf – Songs of Work and Struggle” in Morgen Frayhayt, New York; 1941

Yidisher folklorn in America – Yiddish Folklore in America” in Almanac fun folk, New York; 1947

Yidishe folkslider – A Series of Ten Studies on Yiddish Folksongs” in Yiddish Kultur, New York; 1948-60

Yidishe lider – A Series of Three Studies on Yiddish Songs” in Zamlungen, New York; 1954-58

 

Yiddish Poetry

Lider fun Rivkeh Royzenblatt (“Poems by Ruth Rubin”), privately printed in New York, with a preface by Sh. Niger; 1929

Gebensht ayere hent (“Blest be your hands”), in Morgen Frayhayt, New York; 1944

Lider (“Poems”) in Vochenblatt, Toronto; 1948

 

Video Documentary on Ruth Rubin

“A Life of Song: A Portrait of Ruth Rubin” directed by Cindy Marshall, in color, 38 minutes, dialogue and Yiddish folksongs; 1986; winner of Chris Bronze Plaque, Columbus International Film Festival. (Cindy Marshall Productions, Somerville, Mass.)

 

Reference

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