Ruth Rubin (1906 - 2000), a preeminent authority on Yiddish folk song, was successful as an author, concert singer, and folk song collector, with four albums in the Folkways catalogue. Although she recorded Hebrew songs also, most often she sang in Yiddish, the primary secular language formerly spoken by the Jews of Eastern Europe. On this recording, she sings 18 Yiddish folk songs, a cappella, from her personal repertoire. Liner notes provide detailed information about each song, as well as the lyrics in both English and Yiddish.
5 Mit a Nodl, Oh a Nodl (With a Needle, Without a Needle)
6 Lid Fun Beker Yingl (Song of the Baker Boy)
7 Hot Zikh Mir Di Zip Tsezipt (My Seive Is All Worn Out)
8 Ot Azoy Neyt a Shnayder (This Is How a Tailor Sews)
9 Vey Dem Tatn (Woe Unto the Father)
10 Iz Geven Amol a Pastukhl (Once Upon a Time, There Was a Shepherd)
11 In a Finsterer Sho, Mame (In a Dark Hour, Mother)
12 Ale Vasserlekh (All the Rivulets)
13 Vos Hostu Mir Opgeton? (What Have You Done to Me?)
14 Dortn, Dortn, Ibern Vasserl (There, Across the Water)
15 Di Mame Iz Gegangen (Mother Went Off)
16 O'Brien
17 Baym Obsheyd (At Parting)
18 Yeder Ruft Mikh Zaimele (Everybody Calls Me Zaimele)
Ruth Rubin (1906 - 2000), a preeminent authority on Yiddish folk song, was successful as an author, concert singer, and folk song collector, with four albums in the Folkways catalogue. Although she recorded Hebrew songs also, most often she sang in Yiddish, the primary secular language formerly spoken by the Jews of Eastern Europe. On this recording, she sings 18 Yiddish folk songs, a cappella, from her personal repertoire. Liner notes provide detailed information about each song, as well as the lyrics in both English and Yiddish.
