(Text attributed to Dr. Khayim Zhitlovsky) Note: David Ellin also sang a group of Passover songs from the Haggadah, attributed to the Makarover Nusakh, See Tape No. 85.

From tape marked “Literary Origin.” Note on tape log inside box:] Text: Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky. Tune: Traditional.

From tape marked “Literary Origin.” Note on tape log inside box:] Text: Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky. Tune: Traditional. From Tedi Schwartz’s tape.

[Note from Ruth Rubin tape box log] (Ballad) [Note from black hardbound catalog for tape 36:] A talk with Daniel Lipkovitsh, Sholem Wasiliewsky, Yehudis Wasiliewsky (his friends). As the conversation progressed Daniel touched upon many types of YIDDISH SONGS (folk and authored) he recalled from his childhood and youth in Warsaw. As he remembered them, he sang them. They are listed in the order of their occurrence on the tape. (taped 1964-1966)

Note: David Ellin also sang a group of Passover songs from the Haggadah, attributed to the Makarover Nusakh, See Tape No. 85.

Numbers 12-14 were songs which Bessie Dux remembered from her childhood in a home frequented (in New York City) by anarchist-workers.

“When I was collecting in Montréal in 1955 and 1956, the Université de Montréal, assisted me with some recording apparatus and tapes. I thought the tapes were blank, but it turned out that they had been used by the linguistics department. Consequently, previous sounds are audible ‘under’ my own recording.”