Researching Yiddish penny songs (tenement song broadsides of theater and variety show songs, 1895-1925)
Index of songs on this site
Youtube: all the Penny Songs I've recorded so far (with subtitles)
About this project ♦ ♦ About Jane Peppler
List of the still-lost songs: do you know any of them?
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Contact: 919-606-2122 or email jane@mappamundi.com

This blog follows my research on a collection of 200 song sheets found at Hebrew Union College as "Penny Songs by Morris Rund and others." See also:

Yiddish Ragtime

• Yiddish songs from the 1920s and 1930s (and sometimes beyond), focused on the songs published by Warsaw book and record seller Itzik Zhelonek: Polish Jewish Cabaret
• Our world music ensemble Mappamundi performs this music at festivals, concerts, workshops: Cabaret Warsaw

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Yiddish songs of the Gaslight Era: lead sheets with chords, transliterations, translations, and images from the original music. Click images to see the books!

Yiddish Songs of the Gaslight Era Volume 1

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Yiddish Songs of the Gaslight Era Volume 2

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The American Yiddish Penny Songs book: facsimiles of the original Yiddish broadsides as sold on the streets of New York by Jewish peddlers.

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There are four digital-only cds of songs recorded for this blog:

Ikh bin busy

Opgenarte velt

Vos hot men tsu mir?

Der East Side fun amol

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If you have more information on any of this music, or want to ask a question or just say hi, please email me (Jane Peppler) or call 919-606-2122

Index to this blog: posts and research notes

Index to ALL my Yiddish theater song posts, mp3s, videos, sheet music, transliterations: Yiddish theater songs

Our Yiddish cds:
click to listen for free

My songbook of rare Yiddish theater music popular in interwar Warsaw Poland: click for more information