The true yoke. of our people,
the vibration of the strings of
our hearts, are in our folk
songs—the songs of the ghetto.
Ours is the song of the streets
—the narrow, ugly ones. "
In the dark medievval days,
penned up like cattle in the
narrow, gloomy ghetto streets,
shut off by gates, barred and
bolted every night with locks
and chains, our people let their
folk songs echo the frustrations
of a tragic life.
The first traces of our folk
songs, however, may be found
in the Talmud: on the 15th of

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collections published in pre-
Nazi Germany. The earliest
salem assembled in the vine- was issued at Worms about
yards to dance before young 1595-1605.
Very popular is the group of
men, and this was their song:
love and wedding songs. Ro-
"0 young man, lift up thine mantic affairs were rare, emo-
eyes
tions of love and romance
And look before you choose:. scarcely considered important.
Look not for beauty, -but seek The schadchen arranged the
for good breeding,
marriage, receiving a commis-
False is grace and beauty is sion for his good services.
vain;
The Jews from Russia had
A God-fearing woman alone their own peculiar songs telling
is worthy of praise."
(Ta'an 26b) of their sufferings under the
cruel Czarist regime, - for in-
Numerous are German-Judeo stance: "How Does the Czar
folk songs preserved in many Drink His Tea?" sings of the
comfortable carefree life of the
Russian princes while the poor
Jew moans: "The rent must be
Best Wishes for
A Happy New Year to Our paid or you are put in the
street."
Relatives and Friends
Between 1870 and 1904 and
in all the following years of
emigration to America, the Jews
brought their songs with them.
So did their brethren travelling
-
to Palestine. Here is an ex-
of 4231 Clements
ample, the "Letter to Mother."

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Best Wishes for
A Happy New Year

Mr. and Mrs.
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of 18429 Sorrento

GREENCRAFT
NURSERY

Wish All Their Relatives
and Friends
A Most Joyous New Year

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Wish Their Relatives
and Friends A Happy
New Year

Holiday Greetings

ROSE
Frame Shop

DALY JEWELERS

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Holiday Greetings4

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Nu Way Home
Sales Company

-'' J. Nt. SHARKEY

Wholesale Lumber

Small Appliances
Wholesale and Retail

16765 HUNTINGTON

8729 Twelfth St.
TY. 8-7940

KE. 3-0550

Best Wishes
on the Holiday

LEWIS FLOOR
MAINTENANCE

Holiday Greetings

PLYMOUTH
OIL CO.

Dixie Gasoline and Oils

Daily - Weekly - Monthly Rates

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Holiday Good Cheer

BEL-AIRE
PRODUCTS, Inc.

19528 GRAND RIVER
KE. 7-1200

New Year Greetings

Season's Greetings

FENKELL
AUTO ELECTRIC

Voltage Regulators

Generators - Starters

14000 FENKELL

VE 7-9711

Greetings on New Year's1

Great Lakes
Iron & Metal Co.

FERGUSON'S
MACHINERY
REBU I LDERS

270 HALTNER

H.' C. Ferguson - W. G. Ferguson

River Rouge

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Happy 'Holiday

Happy New Year

PARIS
CAFE

Frank Ratti, Prop.

17630 WOODWARD
TO. 9-9773

2961 EAST McNICHOLS

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Holiday Greetings

No Liquor,-Beer or Wine

JUST GOOD FOOD
ALWAYS FINE !

Inviting Parties and Afternoon
Teas to Bungalow Cafe Annex
Can Serve from 10 to 110 People
Open Seven Days a Week

Distant tears from far away?
Distant groans—not our dis-
aster,
Strangers' blood? Nay, brother,

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Boulevard Temple
Restaurant

2561 W. GRAND BLVD.

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New Year Greetings'

New Year Greetings

T. F. NORRIS CO.

Blakeney's
Ranch House

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Sincerest Best Wishes

Another heartrending song
describes the revolt of the last
4,0.00 Jews in the Vilna Ghetto,
who with sticks and pieces of - Custom Builder and Designer
Office Open Eves., Sat. and Sun.
iron , attacked their murderers.
But at the end, they were all
18905 W. 7 MILE RD.
mowed down by the Nazi ma-
Btwn. Outer Dr. and Evergreen
chine guns. •
KE. 7-2200
"They flung themselves upon
the Gestapo
And tore their clothes to

Holiday Best Wishes

ED F. JOHNS

shreds,
Left lying beside the Jews
Were some bitten to death!"

But out of the bloody battle-
fields rose the inspiring dawn
of new hope and life "Am
Yisroei Chai!" (The People of
Israel Lives!). With the birth of
the Jewish State, there has
been a resurrection of Jewish
life and song forming a strong
spiritual tie to bring together
all Jews.
"Onward, on to Palestine
We gaily throng,
Onward, on to Palestine,

Come, swing along!"

Jewish folk songs have pene-
trated Tin Pan Alley and have
been lustily sung by millions
of Americans. Who does not
know "Bei Mir Bist Du Shane"
or "Azov Nate a Shnyder" and
"Sha, Sha, di Rebbitzin."
Hebrew music, being a living
Mirror of unusual historic se-
quences, the reflection of
climatic, physical and spiritual
conditions, is a cry rising from
tormented, restless souls rent
for over two millennia from
their physical homeland. There-
fore our melodies are never in
major, but in minor, the strain
of woe and lament.

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Season's - Cordial
Greetings

BUNGALOW CAFE

feed."

Sincere Greetings
On the Holiday

Holiday Good Wishes

8729 FENKELL
WE 1-0120

Specializing in Steak Dinners
Businessmen's Lunches

Brothers, sisters, pity, pity!
Overwhelming is the need;
Bury them, the slaughtered
martyrs,
And the starving clothe and

We Operate Our Own Plant

17250 W. 7 MILE RD.
VE. 8-0380

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Er-kwikt eer dee ne-shomeh."

tune,
Many homes and but one door;
All of us are like one orphan,
One—admidst the wild beasts'

BEE CLEANERS
& DYERS

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Oak Park, Michigan

PARADISO
CAFE

nay!

25055 COOLIDGE'

1422 FARMER
WO 2-4244

lehzen,
tin zee vert ge-neh-zen
Heilst eer shmertz, eer bitter

Many hearts and one misfor-

Holiday Good Cheer

JOHNNIE'S
BARBER SHOP

LINDA K'S
PASTY SHOP

them—

_DAVID FINKEL

1420 BRUSH
WO. 3-0354

Oscar Klausner
Studio

Holiday Best Wishes

"At a distance, who can feel

Picture Framing - Regilding
Restoring - Custom Made Frames

Season's Cordial
Greetings

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This song originated among
the Jewish immigrants on New
York's East Side about 1908
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One of the finest modern
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suffering and martyrdom is one
Best Wishes for
Ja y the Polish poet Frug (1860-
1916):
A Happy New Year

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TW. 3-6850

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Holiday Greetings
To All Our Friends

Interior Decorator

"A breevele de ma-men
Zolst du nit verzomen
De ma-me vet dine breev'le

Mr. & Mrs.
J. Fishman & Family

Holiday
Best Wishes
Cameo Jewelry

Joe Walker

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MR.--and MRS.
SAM SINGERMAN
AND FAMILY

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and FAMILY

Ab and on the Day of Atone-
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By S. SINGERMANN

(Standard Feature Syndicate)

Best Wishes to Our
Jewish Friends for
A Happy New Year

Mr. and Mrs.,

Folk Songs of Our People Are a Blend
of Hope for Future and Sadness Over Past

Holiday Best Wishes

BEL-AI RE
MOTEL

SEVEN MILE &
BRAILE SERVICE

20630 W. 7 MILE

KE. 2-9870

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Best Wishes of the Season

LYON
Incorporated

Well Ventilated
Modern Rooms and Apartments

Roy Choate, Prop.

13881 West Chicago

1028 DIX, Lincoln Park
WA. 8-3636

WE 3-5065

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Sincerest Best Wishes

Greetings to All

Barnett Plumbing
& Heating Co.

BELLE TIRE
DISTRIBUTORS

Boiler Repairs, Installation
24 Hour Service
Downtown — Uptown

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Tires and Tubes

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New Year Best Wishes

PAUL'S
Tank Car Stations

Highland
Construction Co.

Aurora Gasoline
Tires - Batteries - Oil
Fuel Oil - Radios

1 0040 West Fort

VI. 2-9121

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