Re: Ruth Rubin's Obit

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

A Life of Song: Ruth Rubin
Ruth Rubin Documentary Video

I've noticed this movie mentioned on a variety of web sites.  It is 
available to purchase.  You can do a search on Alta Vista on Ruth+Rubin and 
up come a number of vendors.
Helen

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I don't know how well known it is among Yiddish singers that there is a
wonderful documentary about Ruth Rubin. I was lucky to be able to copy it
from Judith Cohen when I was staying in Toronto this summer. I'm sure it
must be in the YIVO, but several well informed people I spoke to didn't know
about it. It's worth trying to find it.  It shows Ruth working with people,
collecting songs, performing, etc. In general:  it's her life story.

carla

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Subject: Ruth Rubin's Obit


 > Ruth Rubin
 >
 > NEW YORK (AP) - Ruth Rubin, a scholar, collector and performer of Yiddish
 > folk songs, died Sunday in Mamaroneck, N.Y. She was 93.
 >
 > One of the first women to become a prominent folklorist, Rubin was also
among
 > the first American scholars to document the culture of Eastern European
Jews.
 > Her collection of about 2,000 recorded songs was a cornerstone of the
Yiddish
 > revival movement in the 1970s.
 >
 > Rubin's books included ``A Treasury of Jewish Folksong'' (1950) and
``Voices
 > of a People: The Story of Yiddish Folksong'' (1963). Her studio 
recordings
of
 > the songs for Folkways in the 1940s are available through the Smithsonian
 > Institution.
 >
 > In the mid-1930s Rubin began concentrating seriously on folklore, going 
on
to
 > study with Max Weinreich and, during World War II, translating diaries
 > smuggled out of ghettos and Nazi camps.
 >
 > With the revelation of the extent of the Holocaust, and its sweeping
 > destruction of Yiddish culture, Rubin became determined to preserve a
piece
 > of what remained by making field recordings
 >
 > Dragging a bulky reel-to-reel tape recorder from house to house in cities
in
 > Canada and the United States, she captured well- and lesser-known songs
that
 > flourished in more intimate, domestic settings, like the kitchen or over
the
 > cradle.
 >
 > Unlike klezmer music, which was performed primarily by men at public
 > occasions, the songs Rubin recorded were sung almost exclusively by 
women,
a
 > group largely ignored by the cultural chroniclers of her day.
 >
 > AP-NY-06-17-00 0550EDT
 >
 >
 >



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