The Building and Other Songs by Daniel Kahn and Jake Shulman-Ment textbook The Great Kosher Meat War

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 tells the twin stories of mostly uneducated female immigrants who discovered their collective consumer power and of the Beef Trust

and poetry

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Yet the exploits of these courageous resistance fighters have remained virtually unknown

first published in Moscow in 1940

The Building and Other Songs by Daniel Kahn and Jake Shulman-Ment textbook The Great Kosher Meat WarDetroit born, Hamburg based troubadour and multi instrumentalist Daniel Kahn and New Yorker master fiddler Jake Shulman Ment have been playing and traveling together for nearly twenty years. Having worked in so many bands and projects (including The Painted Bird and Brothers Nazaroff), they have finally joined up to record an true analog duo record: The Building & Other Songs. It is, as Kahn says, "the most personal and intimate selection of songs