Der Nomen Yid The Name Jew

Der Nomen Yid The Name Jew 

"The Name Je" (der nomen yid), an otherwise unknown lamenting song, dates from the Holocaust or the immediate postwar period. The informant's name and biographical data were apparently not recorded. 

Recorded by Ben Stonehill, Hotel Marseilles, New York, summer 1948. From the Library of Congress, Ben Stonehill Collection containing field recordings of songs of European Jewish immigrants, described by Ben Stonehill as"containing almost a thousand songs collected from Jewish refugees in N.Y. City in 1948 that they brought with them from concentration camp, ghetto and hearth" Originally recorded on wire in New York City by Ben Stonehill, 1948.