Name: Di yidishe hofenung (The Jewish Hope)
Duration: P00H03M29S
Description: Yiddish publishing companies around the turn of the 20th century paid "rhymers" to write Yiddish words to English language songs. This one was set to "It's a Long Way to Tipperary."

Di yidishe hofenung (The Jewish Hope)

from Vos hot men tsu mir? What Have They Got Against Me? Yiddish songs 1895-1922 Volume 2 by Jane Peppler & Friends

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Yiddish publishing companies around the turn of the 20th century paid "rhymers" to write Yiddish words to English language songs. This one was set to "It's a Long Way to Tipperary."

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from Vos hot men tsu mir? What Have They Got Against Me? Yiddish songs 1895-1922 Volume 2, released May 9, 2016

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Mappamundi Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Folk music band plays "More-or-less traditional music of the Northern Hemisphere and the Previous Millennium." Vocals, lots of instruments, specializing in Eastern European music (Balkan, Slavic, Russian, Polish); Jewish music in Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino; Celtic, British Isles and early American / Colonial music. And swing. ... more

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