In the English part, by way of commemorating August 12, the Night of the Murdered Poets which took place in 1952, we considered Yiddish folk song Tsen Brider.
Tsen Brider performed by Zupfgeigenhanzel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efK-difrlR8 Lyrics in Yiddish and English http://lyricstranslate.com/en/tsen-brider-ten-brothers.html About the Night of the Murdered Poets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Murdered_Poets +++++ We also digged into the earlier history of Tsen Brider. Its most dramatic part took place during World War II when it became 'a Jewish requiem' - Jacobson, Joshua R., "Tsen Brider: a Jewish Requiem" (2000). Music Faculty Publications. Paper 7. (open access, hosted by Northeastern University) http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20000653 Jacobson, Joshua R. (2000) “Tsen Brider”: A Jewish Requiem. Musical Quarterly (2000) 84 (3): 452-474 (requires subscription to The Musical Quarterly) http://mq.oxfordjournals.org/content/84/3/452.full.pdf+html About Joshua R. Jacobson http://www.joshuajacobson.org/ About Martin Rosenberg http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/camps/central-europe/sachsenhausen/rosenbergmartin/ About Alexandr Kulisiewicz http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/camps/central-europe/sachsenhausen/kulisiewiczaleksander/ Jewish Death Song composed by Martin Rosenberg. Performed by the Zamir Chorale of Boston, Joshua Jacobson, conducting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj19ly9gLhQ Alexandr Kulisiewicz sings Tsen Brider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxWCi_lPZIw
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