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“Arbetsloze Marsh”, written by Mordechai Gebirtig in 1938

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August 21, 2020

Ejns, tswej, draj, fir, arbetlose senen mir, nischt gehert chadoschim lang in fabrik den hamer-klang, ‘s lign kejlim kalt, fargesn, ‘s nemt der sschawer sej schon fresn, gejen mir arum…

Zisl Slepovitch sings a Belarussian protest song in Yiddish

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August 14, 2020

שוין 26 יאָר הערשט דער ווײַסרוסישער דיקטאַטאָר אַלכּסנדר לוקאַשענקאָ מיט אַן אײַזערנעם פֿויסט. ניט געקוקט אויף די ענדערונגען אין די לענדער וואָס רינגלען אַרום ווײַסרוסלאַנד, בלײַבט דער דאָזיקער בייזוויליקער אַנאַכראָניזם…

Dos kelbl, Dona Dona. Song of the Week in multiple versions for all tastes

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August 14, 2020

A lullaby, tender, full of message and motivation, by Avrom Reisen and Sholom Secunda in Yiddish, from New York that has traveled the world Klezmer R ‘ In Yiddish, English,…

Di goldene pave / The golden peacock

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August 6, 2020

Poem: Anna Margolin. Di goldene pave Iz di goldene pave gefloygn, gefloygn, Un di nakht hot geefnet di goldene oygn, Likhtiker mayner, shlof ayn. Di nakht hot geefnet di goldene…

“A bayshpil”, sung by Jacob Gorelik

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July 31, 2020

Jacob (Yankev) Gorelik was born in Schedrin (Shchadryn, Scadryn) Belarus, and came to the US in the 1920s. This performance was recorded at a concert in New York City on…

Mentshn-Fresser, feat. Sveta Kundish & Daniel Kahn. This 100-Year-Old Yiddish Pandemic Song Could Have Been Written Today

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July 23, 2020

In 1916, Solomon Smulevitz, a Yiddish musician and entertainer who immigrated to America from Belarus, wrote “Mentshn-Fresser.” The song’s title means “man eater,” or “devourer of mankind.” Written by Solomon…

“A dank dir, mayn lebn” – Chilean classic “Gracias a la vida”, sung in Yiddish by Roman Grinberg

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July 17, 2020

Maybe the most beautiful hymn to life ever written with no need of further introductions or explanations. It is a song telling everything in itself, and going directly inside the…

Avreiml der Marvikher, performed by Florian Pollak, Roman Grinberg and the Vienna JazzKlez Band

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July 16, 2020

Mordechai Gebirtig, born in 1877 in Krakow, Poland, was a Yiddish folk poet and songwriter. Gebirtig had three daughters, for whom he wrote and performed his poems. The words were…

Boris Sandler, Treplekh aroyf tsu a nes: a sibe far a mesibe

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July 15, 2020

On Sunday 12 July 2020, the Congress for Jewish Culture together with the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, and Yung Yidish of Tel Aviv honored the Yiddish writer…

July 15, 1913: Avrom Sutskever, great Yiddish poet, is born

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July 15, 2020

(1913–2010), Yiddish poet. Born in Smorgon’, a small industrial city southeast of Vilna, Avrom Sutzkever spent his early childhood in Omsk, Siberia, where his parents took refuge from the invading German…