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“Bella Ciao” – Original Yiddish Version

November 25, 2010/ByJewish Website/In/0 Comment

About the song The song Bella Ciao was sung by the left anti-fascist resistance movement in Italy, a movement by anarchists, communists, socialists and other anti-fascist partisans. The author of the lyrics is unknown, and the music seems to come from an earlier folk song sung by riceweeders in the Po Valley. Another interpretation has [...] Read More

“Vi Lang”, Original with street video

February 22, 2021/ByJewish Website/In/0 Comment

An old Jewish anarchist revolutionary anthem.

“Vi Lang”, Modern Version by The Klezmatics

February 22, 2021/ByJewish Website/In/0 Comment

Provided to YouTube by harmonia mundi Vi Lang? · The Klezmatics Apikorsim ℗ The Klezmatics under exclusive licence to world village UK Released on: 2016-11-04 Artist: The Klezmatics Ensemble: The Klezmatics

“In Ale Gasn”, Revolutionary Yiddish Anthem

February 22, 2021/ByJewish Website/In/0 Comment

Often attributed to the Yiddish anarchists but also popular among the Bund, the song was a rallying cry in the overthrow of the czar. Performed by the Workmen’s Circle chorus.

HaZamir USA and Israel - On Stage in Israel 2013

“Yugnt Hymn”, by Basya Rubin

February 22, 2021/ByJewish Website/In/0 Comment

A joint performance by members of HaZamir USA and Israel singing Yugnt Hymn, a youth hymn from the Vilna Ghetto, by Basya Rubin, arranged by Zalmen Mlotek, on stage in Israel in 2013, conducted by Scott Stein, conductor of HaZamir Manhattan. Soloists are Phillip Fisherman of HaZamir New Brunswick, Matan Mann from HaZamir Bergen County, […]

Bundist Youth Anthem

February 22, 2021/ByJewish Website/In/0 Comment

Performed by the Workmen’s Circle chorus, a tribute to past and future radical Jewish youth.

“In Ale Gasn” / “Hey Hey Daloy Politsey”

February 22, 2021/ByJewish Website/In/0 Comment

About the song In ale gasn was originally conceived as a parody of a labor song, but over time it became a non-ironic workers’ song. Daloy politsey, on the other hand, is the closest Yiddish comes to its own “F—- Tha Police.” “It’s the equivalent of a projectile paving stone,” says Daniel Kahn. “I performed [...] Read More

“In Kampf”, by The Klezmatics

February 22, 2021/ByJewish Website/In/0 Comment

About the song Perhaps the best-known song written by Russian-American anarchist poet David Edelstadt, “In kamf” (In Struggle), is “really an anchor of this repertoire,” says organizer and cultural worker Rosza Daniel Lang/Levitsky, “because it talks directly about … the state violence that meets attempts to bring structural change. It’s important because it’s so specifically [...] Read More

“Barikadn” (Barricades), by The Klezmatics

February 17, 2021/ByJewish Website/In/0 Comment

About the song Performed here in an evocative arrangement by the Klezmatics and guests, Barikadn – written by Vilna poet Shmerke Kaczerginski at age 15 in 1923, and also known as Tates, mames, kinderlekh (“Fathers, Mothers, Children”) – portrays a family’s violent resistance to the local gendarmerie. “The children know very well that Father will [...] Read More

“Dem Nayntn Yanuar”, by Tsibele

February 22, 2021/ByJewish Website/In/0 Comment

About the song Originally collected by ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovski, this folk song references the Bloody Sunday March of 1905. Eléonore Weill, vocalist and flutist for radical klezmer outfit Tsibele, composed and arranged this new melody for the band. The song’s unknown author doesn’t hold back: “Brothers and sisters, don’t be scared of jails / Arouse [...] Read More