Tenement Songs: Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants by Mark Slobin Yiddish Learning reached its full flowering not

reached its full flowering not in the immigrant period

The original French version was awarded the prestigious 2014 Canada Prize in the Humanities by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

recorded at Stanford

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Tenement Songs: Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants by Mark Slobin Yiddish Learning reached its full flowering notTurning Yiddish folk music and immigrant longings into American entertainment. Yiddish speaking Jewish immigrants brought a rich heritage of musical expression to the United States. On Manhattan's Lower East Side, a thriving Yiddish theater scene developed and a new, distinctly Jewish American songcraft began to emerge. Mark Slobin's ethnographic study of the music and culture of the time traces the development of Yiddish popular song in America,