Volume 4 of the new series of YIVO-bleter, the Yiddish-language research journal has just been published by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and is available for purchase from the Jewish Book Center of the Workmen's Circle 45 East 33 Street New York, New York 10016 212-889-6800 or 800-922-2558 www.jewishbookcenter.com The theme of this volume is folklore. It includes articles on such topics as folksongs, riddles, laments, purim-shpiln,children's folklore, folk culture as reflected in newspapers and on radio, and Holocaust-era folklore. Among the well-known authors represented are music specialist Eleanor Gordon Mlotek, folklorists Bina Silverman Weinreich and Itzik Gottesman, music professor Mark Slobin and linguist Robert Rothstein, as well as the late musicologist Moyshe Beregovski. Both specialists and lay readers will find it most interesting.
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