Re: Yiddish folk song circa 1850's

[Eliott Kahn <Elkahn...>]

At 03:04 AM 3/26/2004 +1100, you wrote:
>Does anyone have any suggestions for a yiddish song meeting the
>following criteria:

Forget about it. The Eastern European Yiddish-speaking emigration began in the 
late 19th century. The California Gold Rush of 1849 might have included 
German-speaking Jews (Levi Strauss) fleeing the Conservative European backlash 
after the revolutions of 1848. Many of them came from Bavaria because of 
reinstitution of various prohibitions that had been rescinded during the 
Napoleonic era.

I'm not so sure they would have been so nostalgic, either, as the west and 
southwest were wide open to development and there was far less antisemitism 
than even in the eastern cities.

Eliott Kahn

>remeniscences of "the old country", or song of longing or nostalgia of
>sorts,
>popular, or at least sung around the time of the gold rush (Aussie gold
>rush was only a few years after the Californian gold rush)
>No references within the song to America as the locale of the story told
>in the lyrics.
>
>--
>Regards,
>
>Lionel Mrocki
>
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