JUDAÍSMO LIVRE- Shomrei Tzion

Songs of the ghettos, concentration camps, and World War II partisan outposts Partisan Songs Contents Continue Tour Leave a comment     Three Jewish partisans in the Wyszkow Forest near Warsaw. Poland, between 1943 and 1944. —  United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Jewish partisans Abba Kovner (left) and Shmerke Kaczerginski after the liberation of Vilna. 1945. —  YIVO Institute for Jewish Research At the Edge of a Forest (Dort baym breg fun veldl) Lyrics by: Petr Mamaichuk and Shmerke Kaczerginski Music by: Leonid Shokhin Language: Yiddish Performed by Theodore Bikel with Daniel Kempin, guitar Strange and wonderful is the picture before me: I see heroes made hard as oaks by life in the forest, strong men who wouldn’t blink an eye when the time came to kill, slaughter, destroy. And here in the twilight, they turn sentimental as women, and pour their feelings of love and longing into songs they created themselves or had r