Tenement Songs: Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants by Mark Slobin Yiddish Learning ninety-nine percent of Montreal's sixty

ninety-nine percent of Montreal's sixty thousand Jews reported that Yiddish was their mother tongue

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Tenement Songs: Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants by Mark Slobin Yiddish Learning ninety-nine percent of Montreal's sixtyTurning Yiddish folk music and immigrant longings into American entertainment. Yiddish speaking Jewish immigrants brought a rich heritage of musical expression to the United States. On Manhattan's Lower East Side, a thriving Yiddish theater scene developed and a new, distinctly Jewish American songcraft began to emerge. Mark Slobin's ethnographic study of the music and culture of the time traces the development of Yiddish popular song in America,