Language:
Yiddish
Year of publication:
1964
Abstract:
"One of our favorite finds has been a whole sub-genre of Yiddish LP's that speak directly to the language's struggle for survival: the 'Songs My Mother Taught Me' collections. Here Yiddish is not a public language, but a private ritual carried out between accent-laden fathers and mothers and their restless accent-free American kids. Comedian Patsy Abbott puts her own spin on it on Yiddish Songs my Mother Never Taught Me. With her Old World yiddishe momme in an apron and young blond Patsy with her hair and eyelashes done (she used to be Goldie Schwartz), the two may sit at the same kitchen table surrounded by all the accoutrements of midcentury secular Jewishness (rye bread, Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray soda, kosher salami), but on the Yiddish continuum they're at opposite ends." From: Bennett, Roger and Kun, Josh. Jews on Vinyl: And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl. New York: Crown Publishers, 2008.
URL:
http://www.thecjm.org/index.php?option=com_ccevents&scope=exbt&task=highlight&no_html=1&eid=6905
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