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Nineteenth-Century Yiddish Love Songs of East Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Ruth Rubin
Ruth Rubin*
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Of all the categories of nineteenth-century secular Yiddish folk songs of East Europe, the love songs are the most numerous, popular, melodious and poetic. This fact challenged a number of writers on Jewish literature and folklore, who were not able to account for this type of song current in a community which was patriarchal in structure and strict in its religious observances.

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Research Article
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Journal of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 7 , January 1955 , pp. 44 - 47
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Copyright © International Council for Traditional Music 1955

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