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A graf fun Ungarn
Russian poem, on the 1849 struggle against the Russians - and the end of the Habsburgs. On October 13 about 50 were executed. (Song 3 on this tape is a Yiddish version of this poem) From additional tape, “73B” with song #3 and Anna Berkowitz’s…
Belayu pokrivala
Russian poem, on the 1849 struggle against the Russians - and the end of the Habsburgs. On October 13 about 50 were executed. (Song 3 on this tape is a Yiddish version of this poem) From additional tape, “73B” with song #3 and Anna Berkowitz’s…
Ver hot geshribn dem pagerey?
[Note in typewritten tape log in box]: Parody on Itzik Manger’s “Rabeynu Tam,” sung by a Chilean, visiting here. Sung at a house party. [of several men and women with fine singing voices who join in the chorus and parts of the verses and are having…
Erets Yisroel, mayn tayer land
The informant was a member of Hashomer Hatzair in Europe before she came to the U.S. and continued in “the movement” here.
Hey, hey, yunger khaluts
Created by the singer, who sings the song in Yiddish, English and Hebrew. Informant runs a youth camp in New Hampshire and wrote the song for it. This is an example of “non-professional” composition of songs, which still crops up from time to time.
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