Re: Holiday Songs

[Itzik Gottesman <itzik...>]

More "holiday" songs in America than in Europe? I haven't counted, but
there was a great effort to compose holiday songs in America and one must
thank the Yiddish shuln for the Yiddish ones, and the Hebrew schools for
the Hebrew and English ones.  The composers, often music teachers in the
schools,  wrote for their school children.  There are many Yiddish song
collections, with holiday songs, for the pre-war  (and post-war) schools in
Poland, Paris, Montreal,Buenos Aires, Mexico City. In Yiddish, this is a
20th century phenomenon, since the modern schools don't begin till 1910 or
so. - Itzik



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