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Thread #51818   Message #791510
Posted By: Wilfried Schaum
26-Sep-02 - 02:09 AM
Thread Name: Jewish Folk Song for Kids
Subject: RE: Jewish Folk Song for Kids
Wilco - here the promised source, and another work I found rummaging throgh the shelves of your outstanding Library of Congress and Amazon:

Author: Rubin, Ruth, ed.
Title: A treasury of Jewish folksong, selected and edited by Ruth Rubin. Piano settings: Ruth Post, drawings: T. Herzl Rome, [poetry adaptations: Isaac Schwartz, Jacob Sloan and the editor]
Published: New York, Schocken Books [1950]
Description: 224 p. illus. 28 cm.
LC Call No.: M1850.R8T7
Dewey No.: 784.7
Notes: For voice and piano. Words in Yiddish or Hebrew (transliterated) with English translations.
Bibliography: p. 224.
Subjects: Folk songs, Yiddish.
Folk songs, Hebrew.
Jews -- Music.
Folk music.
Control No.: 748003

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A Treasury of Jewish Folksong by Ruth Rubin (Editor), T. Herzl Rome (Illustrator)
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This is a book I hold in high esteem. It gives you a good cross section of Yiddish and Hebrew folksong: children, love, work, war etc. There is a section with Israeli songs, too, in Ivrit. All lyrics are translated to English, some of the translations are easily to sing. Here sometimes the literal translation fell victim to the rhyme (oxen was changed to poodle because it has to rhyme with noodle). You should be glad if you are able to obtain it.

This book I don't know, but judging from Ms. Rubins work mentioned above I am sure that it is of the same high standard:
Title: Jewish folk songs : in Yiddish and English / compiled and edited, with English adaptations, by Ruth Rubin ; with guitar accompaniments by Ethel Raim.
Published: New York, NY (45 Gramercy Pk. No., New York 10010) : R. Rubin, 1989.
Description: 96 p. of music : ill. ; 28 cm.
LC Call No.: M1852.R75J5 1989
ISBN: 0962293008 (pbk.)
Notes: Words in Yiddish (transliterated) with English translations. Unacc. melodies with chord symbols.
Subjects. Folk songs, Yiddish. Jews -- Music.
Other authors: Rubin, Ruth. Raim, Ethel. arr
Control No.: 11788491

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Sing ye and chant it
Wilfried