Yiddish Research: Field Recordings/Folk Songs

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Online resource for the analysis of the Yiddish folksong tradition - exploring genre, structure, style, aesthetic, pedagogy, and resources

Comprehensive, international Jewish music collection, with some online content.

Comprehensive site with recordings, texts, and other documents from the great scholar singer, collector and proponent of Yiddish folk song.

Archival field recording of Holocaust survivors in New York City, 1948, by Ben Stonehill. Includes recordings, as well as transcribed and translated texts by Dr. Miriam Isaacs.

Rare Jewish ethnographic recordings made in Ukraine and Belarus between 1912 and 1947.

Field recordings of Yiddish songs, presented with texts and scholarly commentary, and edited by Dr. Itzik Gottesman. Sponsored by the Center for Traditional Music and Dance.

Digitized collection of interviews/field recording of Yiddish folk singers.