Yiddish Folk Songs

Ruth Rubin (1906 – 2000), a preeminent authority on Yiddish folk song, was successful as an author, concert singer, and folk song collector, with four albums in the Folkways catalogue. Although she recorded Hebrew songs also, most often she sang in Yiddish, the primary secular language formerly spoken by the Jews of Eastern Europe. On this recording, she sings 18 Yiddish folk songs, a cappella, from her personal repertoire.

Liner notes provide detailed information about each song, as well as the lyrics in both English and Yiddish.

Track Listing

101	Mikhalku	Ruth Rubin	02:10
102	Oksn (Oxen)	Ruth Rubin	01:35
103	Ay-Lye-Lyu-Lye-Lyu-Lye	Ruth Rubin	02:03
104	Er Hot Mir Tsugezogt (He Promised Me)	Ruth Rubin	01:58
105	Mit A Nodl, On A Nodl (With a Needle, Without a Needle)	Ruth Rubin	02:29
106	Lid Fun Beker Yingl (Song of the Baker Boy)	Ruth Rubin	01:48
107	Hot Zikh Mir Di Zip Tsezipt (My Seive Is All Worn Out)	Ruth Rubin	00:41
108	Ot Azoy Neyt A Shnayder (This is How a Tailor Sews)	Ruth Rubin	01:33
109	Vey Dem Tatn (Woe Unto the Father)	Ruth Rubin	02:01
110	Iz Geven Amol A Pastukhl (Once Upon a Time, There was a Shepherd)	Ruth Rubin	02:22
201	In a Finsterer Sho, Mame (In a Dark Hour, Mother)	Ruth Rubin	02:36
202	Ale Vasserlekh (All the Rivulets)	Ruth Rubin	01:47
203	Vos Hostu Mir Opgeton? (What Have You Done To Me?)	Ruth Rubin	01:27
204	Dortn, Dortn, Ibern Vasserl (There, Across the Water)	Ruth Rubin	02:04
205	Di Mame Iz Gegangen (Mother Went Off)	Ruth Rubin	00:50
206	O'Brien	Ruth Rubin	02:43
207	Baym Obsheyd (At Parting)	Ruth Rubin	02:26
208	Yeder Ruft Mikh Zaimele (Everybody Calls Me Zaimele)	Ruth Rubin	01:55