“The Jew In You”, by Daniel Kahn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGgfuwbTmUM
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“Vemen Veln Mir Dinen”, by Yale Strom
About the song Performed here by Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi, featuring vocalist Elizabeth Schwartz, this early 20th century protest song is remarkably confrontational and about as antifa as you can get: “Serving emperors is no good brothers, because they bathe themselves in our blood / What are we gonna do, brothers? Polish the officer’s [...]
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“Am Yisroel Khai”, by Theodore Bikel
The material from which Bikel worked with on this record was smuggled out of Soviet Russia by Ben Tsion. Tsion traveled through the country and taped encounters with other Jews to learn of the musical genre that was created behind the Iron Curtain. Soviet Jews often used shortwave radio to learn of their plight and […]
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Yiddish Version of “The Internationale” (דער אינטערנאַציאָנאַל) – Nightcore Style
Yiddish Lyrics דער אינטערנאַציאָנאַל שטײט אױף, איר אַלע, װער ווי שקלאַפֿן, אין הונגער לעבן מוז, אין נױט! דער גײַסט – ער קאָכט, ער רופֿט צו װאָפֿן אין שלאַכט אונדז פֿירן איז ער גרײט. די װעלט פֿון גװאַלדטאַטן און לײדן צעשטערן װעלן מיר און דאַן פֿון פֿרײַהײט, גלײַכהײט אַ גַן־עֵדֶן באַשאַפֿן װעט דער אַרבעטסמאַן דאָס װעט [...]
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The Internationale and Lili Marlene in Yiddish by Daniel Kahn. Vienna, Nazi bunker 8.04.2011
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird Bunkerei, Wien Yiddish Lyrics דער אינטערנאַציאָנאַל שטײט אױף, איר אַלע, װער ווי שקלאַפֿן, אין הונגער לעבן מוז, אין נױט! דער גײַסט – ער קאָכט, ער רופֿט צו װאָפֿן אין שלאַכט אונדז פֿירן איז ער גרײט. די װעלט פֿון גװאַלדטאַטן און לײדן צעשטערן װעלן מיר און דאַן פֿון פֿרײַהײט, גלײַכהײט [...]
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Pripetshik-zingers @ Yugntruf Yidish-vokh, 2002
Pripetshik Singers / פּריפּעטשיק־זינגערס Der debyut-kontsert / דער דעביוט־קאָנצערט Binyumen Schaechter, Muzik-direktor בנימין שעכטער, מוזיק־דירעקטאָר Filmirt umformel, nisht redaktirt / פֿילמירט אומפֿאָרמעל, נישט רעדאַקטירט An emeser kontsert (Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman) 0:00 Enge-bengenikes mir (Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman) 2:28 Tsipele (Moyshe Broderzon / Yisroyl Glatstein) 4:28 Yome, Yome (folkslid) 6:12 Kh’vil nisht geyn in kheyder (Sholem Aleichem / Yosef […]
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Unter dayne vayse shtern – 5 versions
This song was written in the Vilna ghetto, words by Abraham Sutskever (1913-2010); music by Abraham Brudno (?-1944). It was first presented in the ghetto theater in the play " Di Yogenish in Fas" (the hunt in the barrel, a pun on Diogenes in a barrel.) It was first sung by Zlate Katcherginsky. After the [...]
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The Dreidel Song – in Yiddish!
Happy Hanukkah!! Did you know that “I Have a Little Dreidel” was written in Yiddish too?! Potentially as the original version! This rendition of “Ikh Bin a Kleyner Dreydl” is performed by Dylan Seders Hoffman, Dani Apple, and Lorin Zackular (former off-Broadway castmates from the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s “The Sorceress”). Direction/editing by Dylan Seders […]
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Zi Hot Mikh Lib, excellent pop-traditional Yiddish version with Bodo
A song from the 1982 Yiddish Israeli film.
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