Re: bitzu mit mir broygez-translation

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

>Dem Gonifs Yikhes is related to the song, Yikhes, which was performed (and
>written?) by Aaron Lebedef.  The melody is similar, though it doesn't have
>all the same parts.  Again, unfortunately, I don't have the words to the
>Lebedef song.  I would guess, by the derisive tone of "dem gonifs yikhes"
>that it is a parody of "Yikhes," but I don't really know which came first.

There is also a version of the song (I =knew= I had heard it recently)
being performed by Brave Old World in their "Songs of the Lodz Ghetto"
suite. An amazing piece of music, but not yet recorded.

ari


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