Yiddish vocal with obligato

[Yoel Epstein <yoel...>]

I have copies of a few Yiddish songs from the early 20th century arranged
for voice and piano, with violin obligato: Leg Dein Kopf by Solomon Golub,
Eli Eli by Rosenblatt, Zvei Troikes by Henry Russto, Chantshe in America by
J.M. Rumshisky.

The violin parts do not appear in the score, and are normally sold
separately - The piano part for Chantshe in America, for example, cost 50
cents, the violin part 30 cents.  In one case, the violin part doesn't seem
to be for the same piece, at least I can't figure out how it fits together.
In other cases (Leg Dein Kopf, for example), it took quite a bit of
detective work to figure out how the violin part fit with the voice and
piano.

The ads on the backs of the music suggest that a lot of popular Yiddish
theater songs were printed with obligato violin parts, but after searching
for a day in the YIVO archives a few years back, I couldn't find any more.

The songs I am talking about were published in New York mostly, or in
London.  In addition to these, there are the songs written by composers of
the St. Petersburg Society for voice and various chamber ensembles.

Does anyone know where I can find more copies of these types of
arrangements?

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