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Unemployed Yiddish Writers
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The writers of the radical press (also) have the full right to life, to be free, and to seek their fortune in—a bread line.

Contributor:

Der Tunkeler

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Poverty, Economic life, Cities, Writing, Modernity

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Music
Drawing of men, wearing hats, standing in a line. Yiddish text appears above and below them.
At the Yiddish Wedding Jubilee
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Sheet music for “At the Yiddish Wedding Jubilee,” a song popularized by Sophie Tucker (ca. 1884–1966). Born Sophia Kalish in Tulchyn (today in Ukraine), Sophie Tucker immigrated to the United States…

Contributor:

Jack Glogau, Joe McCarthy, Al Piantadosi

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Art, Music, Jewish languages, Yiddish, Modernity

Categories:

Performing Arts, Music, Visual & Material Culture
Page with English title and photograph of woman in dress, next to drawings of three baby-like figures, one in dress, one in suit, and one with beard and hat.
Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars
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Sheet music for “Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars,” a comic song about a Jewish businessman on his deathbed trying to collect money owed him. “Yiddish dialect songs” were popular performance pieces…

Contributor:

Irving Berlin

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1915

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Humor, Satire

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Popular Poetry, Music
Page with English title on top and decorative border.