rovided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises Shik Mir a Shtral · Arkady Gendler Yidishe Lider ℗ 2012 Golden Horn Records Released on: 2013-01-25  

Sidney Zoltak, who survived the Holocaust as a child, talks about learning songs from his grandmothers and in the Dispanced Persons camps. He sings “Shik Mir a Stral”, a song he learned after World War II.  

Lyrics: Herts Rivkin, music: unknown Vocal: Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk, violin: Aliza Keren, piano: Evgeny Kosovsky, accordion: Artem Nizhnik, bass: Alex Trepakov, guitar: Alex Belousov The words of this old Yiddish tango from the repertoire of Ukrainian folksinger Arkady Gendler, has became very relevant today: Send me a ray to light my path, Drive away the […]