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Jewish Life: The Old Country

Various Artists
Jewish Life: The Old Country

When Eastern European Jews immigrated en masse to the United States in the 1880s and ’90s fleeing Czarist oppression and poverty, they brought with them a body of secular folk songs. Sung in Yiddish by men and women who came here from five villages (with English translations and explanations), this recording archives a lost way of life.


RELATED LESSON PLAN
"Israeli Song and Dance for Middle or High School Ensembles"


Track Listing

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Berish Katz
00:28
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102
Dora Wasserman
00:44
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103
F. Feingold
00:38
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104
Unidentified man from Galicia
00:38
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105
Freda Lobell
01:53
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106
Rachel Grover-Spivack
00:44
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107
Feygl Sultan
02:02
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108
Israel Freed
01:46
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109
Esther Drucker
01:30
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110
Ruth Rubin
01:22
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111
Harry Ary
01:50
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112
Anna Berkowitz
01:34
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113
Harry Ary
02:05
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114
Fanye Halpern
01:28
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115
Yankl Zipper
01:15
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201
Avrom Yudin
02:20
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202
Yankl Zipper
00:42
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203
Avrom Yudin
01:12
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204
Ruth Rubin
03:14
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205
Rachel Grover-Spivack
01:06
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206
Feygl Sultan
01:11
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207
Ruth Rubin
00:47
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208
Mr. Persky
02:35
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209
Freda Lobell
00:43
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210
Rachel Grover-Spivack
01:56
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211
Ruth Rubin
01:39
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212
Berish Katz
02:25
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213
Feygl Yudin
03:02