Yiddish men's love songs - Yale talk

[itzik gottesman <gottesman...>]

                Concerning Yiddish folksongs, men's and womens.
Though Yiddish love-folksongs are generally a women's genre, there is
an exception. The love songs of the underworld, thieves songs. this
category breaks down into two categories, songs of thieves, all men,
and songs of prostitutes, all women. Many of the thieves songs, take
womens love songs and adapt them for the man's point of view. An
interesting phenomenon, and you can hear all about it at  a lecture I
am giving on "Yiddish folklore of the underworld" at Yale University
tomorrow, Wed. april 24. at 4:00 at the Romance Languages Lounge. At
noon , I will give at more informal talk in Yiddish at the Slifka
Center on Yiddish folklore and nationalism.

?ÝItzik Gottesman

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