America the Beautiful

Also for July Fourth:

America the Beautiful with Binyuman's Schechter's Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus!  

With English Subtitles. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UVVNE9wcg4&list=UUbCGJxhJOEDDlHxZqhp4cgQ&index=19

Or: 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UVVNE9wcg4&list=UUbCGJxhJOEDDlHxZqhp4cgQ&index=18

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The Star Spangled Banner -- Af Yidish

Today, for July 4, 2021, here are two versions of our National Anthem in Yiddish.      

The first features Binyumen Schechter's Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus, with a running transliteration and translation subtitle.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxCkt-HsHw

The second is from one Dr. A. Sen, with whom I am not familiar.   

Here is Dr. Sen's transliteration of the first stanza:

O'zog, kenstu sehn, wen bagin licht dervacht,

Vos mir hoben bagrist in farnachtigen glihen?

Die shtreifen un shtern, durch shreklicher nacht,

Oif festung zich hoiben galant un zich tsein?

Yeder blitz fun rocket, yeder knal fun kanon,

Hot bawizen durch nacht: az mir halten die Fohn!

O, zog, tzi der "Star Spangled Banner" flatert in roim,

Ueber land fun die freie, fun brave die heim!

The entire document is below, with the Yiddish transliteration, the version in Yiddish letters, and the original by Francis Scott key.  

To print a larger copy, drag the picture to your desktop and print from there!  

Have A Happy and Meaningful Fourth of July!

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Friling by Shmerke Kaczerginski

http://hebrewsongs.com/?song=friling

(Much more about this song at the above URL)

FRILING

פרילינג

Ikh blondzhe in geto 
Fun gesl tsu gesl 
Un ken nit gefinen keyn ort 
Nito iz mayn liber, 
Vi trogt men ariber? 
Mentshn, o zogt khotsh a vort. 
Es laykht oyf mayn heym itst 
Der himl der bloyer 
Vos zhe hob ikh itst derfun? 
Ikh shtey vi a betler 
Bay yetvidn toyre 
Un betl a bisele zun.

Chorus: 

Friling, nem tsu mayn troyer 
Un breng mayn libstn 
Maynt trayen tsurik 
Friling oyf dayne fligl bloye 
O, nem mayn harts mit 
Un gib es op mayn glik. 

Ikh gey tsu der arbet 
Farbay undzer shtibl 
In troyer, der toyer farmakht. 
Der tog a tsehelter 
Di blumen farvelkte, 
Zey vanynen, far zey iz oykn nakht. 
Far nakht oyf tsurikvegs, 
Es noyet der troyer, 
Ot do hostu libster gevart. 
Ot do inem shotn 
Nokh kentik dayn trot iz, 
Flegt kushn mikh liblekh un tsart 

Chorus

S'iz hay-yor der friling 
Gor fri ongekumen, 
Tseblit hot zikh benkshaft nokh dir, 
Ikh ze dikh vi itster 
Balodn mit blumen, 
A freydiker geystu tsu mir. 
Di zun hot fargosn 
Dem gortn mist shtraln, 
Tseshprotst hot di erd zikh in grin 
Mayn trayer, mayn libster, 
Vu bistu farfaln? 
Du geyst nit aroys fun mayn zin. 

Chorus

I wander through the ghetto  From lane to lane  Useless, no solace I find.  My beloved is gone  How can I go on?  Someone, oh say just a word!  My house is aglow now  The sky's like a blue dome  But what is there left in my life?  I stand like a beggar  At each of these doorways  And beg for a little bit of sun  Refrain  Springtime, please take my sorrow  And bring my loved one,  My dear one back to me.  Springtime, upon your wings of blue  Take my heart with you  And bring love back to me  I go to my work  And pass by our small house  In sadness, the door is closed tight  The days is full of sunlight  But flowers won't bloom now,  They're wilting, for them too it's night  At night when returning  The sadness is burning  Right here love, you waited for me  Right here in the shadows  I still hear your footsteps  You kissed me so passionately  Refrain  Springtime is with us  This year very early  My longing for you is in bloom.  I see you before me  Adorned with spring flowers  Smiling, you will greet me soon  The sun's rays have lit up  The garden with sunlight,  Turning the hard earth to green.  My dearest, my loved one  Are you gone forever?  I can't get you out of my mind.  Chorus

This moving song memorializes the author's wife who perished in the ghetto.

Written by the poet after the death of his wife in April 1943. Kaczerginski joined the partisan forces following the liquidation of the ghetto in September 1943. After the war he compiled several hundred poems and song lyrics. He survived the war to meet his death in a plane crash in 1954. The music is by Abraham Brudno, who, following the liquidation of the ghetto was deported to a concentration camp in Estonia, where he died.
(from liner notes to "We are Here - Songs of Remembrance, Hope, and Celbrat) 

http://www.hebrewsongs.com/?song=friling 

LYRICS	Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954 Poet Partisan of Vilna)
MUSIC	Abrom Brudno (Died in the Holocaust 1943)

UNTER DAYNE VAYSE SHTERNE -- UNDER YOUR WHITE STARS

Notes from Save the Music:

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 liquidation of the ghetto, Sutzkever joined the partisan fighters. He survived the war and lived in Israel where he edited the literary quarterly “Di Goldene Keyt”. Sutzkever died January, 20, 2010 The composer, Avrom Brudno, following the liquidation of the Vilna ghetto, was deported to a German concentration camp in Estonia, where he died. YW

From: 

https://savethemusic.com/video/unter-dayne-vayse-shtern/

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UNTER DAYNE VAYSE SHTERNE PERFORMANCES

Performances of Unter Dayne Vayse Shtern written by Avrom Sutzkever.

See video of his daughter, Mira (Mirele Sutzkever) 

from Yiddish Book Center:

https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/oral-histories/excerpts/woh-ex-0003410/how-sutzkever-wrote-unter-dayne-vayse-shtern-explained-his-daughter#:~:text=Mira%20%28Mirele%29%20Sutzkever%2C%20daughter%20of%20Yiddish%20poet%20Avrom,Yiddish.%20This%20interview%20is%20part%20of%20the%20series.

Music by Abraham Brudno, and see more information here:

https://www.milkenarchive.org/music/volumes/view/the-art-of-jewish-song/work/unter-dayne-vayse-shtern/

A few performances:

Chava Albertshteyn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf3lUoBRD20

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Yelena Shmulenson accompanied by Binyumen Schechter in a YIVO production with a nice introduction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bglSZ9-GcC4

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National Netherland Youth Choir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS5_rhQ9RQo 

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Partisans of Vilne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q8waiCveeM

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Barbara Novotny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za43JvXACRg

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Kerem Trio with Yeeva Avital with Text Online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFMhWeW36y4

The picture in this video may be Avrom Sutzkever.

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This Land is Your Land realized in Yiddish

דאָס לאַנד איז דַײן לאַנד פֿון װּודי גאָטרי, 1940

פֿאַרטַײטשט פֿון ליבע גריץ און דניאל קאַהן

מיט חײם באָכנער, מײשקע אַלּפערט, און דזשאַש װאַלעצקי

כ’האָב מיר געװאַנדערט, אין אַ לאַנד אַ פֿרַײען אַרױס פֿון מידבר, װי ממצרים

געזוכט אַ נַײעם ירושלים

דאָס איז אַ לאַנד פֿאַר מיר און דיר

רעפֿרען: 

דאָס לאַנד איז דַײן לאַנד דאָס לאַנד איז מַײן לאַנד

פֿון קאַליפֿאָרניע ביז עליס אַײלאַנד

פֿון די גרױסע אָזערעס ביז די ברײטע ימען 

דאָס איז אַ לאַנד פֿאַר מיר און דיר

איך גײ אַריבער די בערג און טעלער 

אַרומגערינגעלט פֿון זיסע קעלער

 די ריטשקעס מורמלען, די פֿײגל זינגען

 דאָס איז אַ לאַנד פֿאַר מיר און דיר

כ’זע אַ גרױסן מױער מיט אַ שילד װאָס װאָרנט 

װיל מען אַרַײנעט, שטײט אַז מע’ טאָר ניט 

נאָר אױף יענער זַײט, שטײט דאָרטן גאָרניט

 אָט איז די זַײט פֿאַר מיר און דיר

גײ איך מיר װאָגלען, די זון פֿון אױבן

נאָר בײזע װינטן צעבלאָזן שטױבן

דורך די טומאַנען הער איך געזאַנגען

דאָס איז אַ לאַנד פֿאַר מיר און דיר

אױף נאַסע גאַסן, אין טיפֿע שאָטנס 

זע איך װי מענטשן בעטן נדבֿות 

בַײ אַזאַ דלות, טו איך זיך קלערן

צי דאָס איז אַ לאַנד פֿאַר מיר און דיר

עס קען שױן קײנער אונדז ניט פֿאַרשטערן 

די פֿרַײע װעגן אונדז ניט פֿאַרװערן 

ניטאָ קײן צאַמען, ווען נאָר צוזאַמען

דאָס איז אַ לאַנד פֿאַר מיר און דיר

This Land is Your Land Transliterated

 

https://savethemusic.com/video/this-land-isyour-

land-in-yiddish/  Lyrics 1940

Transliterated Lyrics

(Daniel:)Kh’hob mir gevandert in a land a frayen

Aroys fun midber, vi mi-mitsrayem,

Gezukht a nayem Yerushalayem,

Dos iz a land far mir un dir.

(REFREN:)Dos land iz dayn land, dos land iz mayn landFun Kalifornye biz Elis Ayland,Fun di groyse oz’res biz di breyte yamen,Dos iz a land far mir un dir.

(Sarah:)Ikh gey ariber di berg un teler,

Arumgeringlt fun zise keler.

Di ritshkes murmlen, di feygl zingen:

Dos iz a land far mir un dir.

(Lorin w/ piano:)Kh’ze a groysn moyer mit a shild vos vornt:

Vil men araynet, shteyt az me tor nit!

Nor af yener zayt, shteyt dortn gornit  

Ot iz di zayt far mir un dir.

(Sveta & Patty w/accordion:)Gey ikh mir voglen, di zun fun oybn,

Nor beyze vintn tseblozn shtoybn,

Durkh di tumanen, her ikh gezangen:

Dos iz a land far mir un dir.

(Michael:)Af nase gasn, in tife shotns,

Ze ikh vi mentshn betn nedoves

Bay aza dales, darf ikh zikh klern

Tsi dos iz a land far mir un dir.

(Linda and all:)Es ken shoyn keyner undz nit farshtern,

Di fraye vegn undz nit farvern.

Nito keyn tsamen, ven nor tsuzamen.

Dos iz a land far mir un dir.

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Literal translation of the Yiddish: 

I wandered into a free countryOut of the desert, as though from Egypt,Looking for a new Jerusalem,This is a country for me and you.

This is your country,This is my country, From California to Ellis Island,From the Great Lakes to the wide seas,This is a country for me and you.

I walk over mountains and valleys, Surrounded by sweet voices.The streams murmur, the birds sing:This is a country for me and you.

I see a big wall with a sign that warns:If you want to enter, it says it’s forbidden

But on the other side, it says nothing,That is the side for you and me.

I go wandering, the sun above, But evil winds are blowing dust,

Through the haze, I hear singing:This is a country for me and you.

On wet streets, in deep shadows, I see people begging for change.To see such poverty, I wonder If this is a country for me and you.

There’s no one who can stop us,Or forbid us the paths of freedom.There are no barriers, if we are united.This is a country for me and you.