East European Folksong Project

FAIN: RO-11849-73

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York, NY 10011-6301)
Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett (Project Director: November 1972 to present)

Analysis of Old World Yiddish folksong performance in its social context on the basis of field data never before gathered and consideration of implications of this analysis for the study of expressive behavior cross-culturally, especially in multilingual societies. Informants are East European Jewish immigrants living in New York City.