Social Significance

Title

Social Significance

Description

"During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the songs of the craftsmen and apprentices were but a distant echo. New sounds and rhythms, under the pressure of economical and political struggles against tsarist oppression, were surfacing in a different type of Yiddish folksong, created by working men and women. These new struggle songs were heard at clandestine political meetings and street encounters with the tsarist police. Often set to a brisk marching tempo, some of the songs seem to have been created in the very heat of struggle." (Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive, p. 227).

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“Social Significance,” YIVO Online Exhibitions, accessed April 27, 2024, https://ataleoftwomuseums.yivo.org/items/show/2146.

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