Re: Kaczerginski song

[Abbi Wood <acw24...>]

A groysn dank! Thanks for clearing up that mystery,

Abbi

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 BWerb (at) ushmm(dot)org wrote:

> Abbi,
> The song in question is "yid, du partizaner" (The Jewish Partisan).
> Kaczerginski cites the lyrics in the chapter "velder zingen" (Singing
> Forests) of his memoir "ikh bin geven a partizan" (p 219).  You'll find the
> song in "lider fun di getos un lagern" on pages 351 (words) and 428
> (music).
> Bret Werb
> US Holocaust Memorial Museum
> Washington DC
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> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:44:04 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Abbi Wood <acw24 (at) hermes(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk>
> To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Subject: Kaczerginski song
>
> I'm trying to locate a Yiddish song, 'Singing Forests', by Sh.
> Kaczerginski, on behalf of a friend. I'd be grateful if anyone could point
> me to what song this might be, and what collection it's in. (I have
> Kaczerginski's 'Lider fun di getos un lagern' (1947), but at first look I
> can't see anything matching this title.)
>
> The details she has given me are as follows:
>
> >> do you know anything of a song called "Singing Forests" by S.
> >> Kaczerginski which is apparently in a collection called : Lyrics of the
> >> Ghettos and Camps collected by SK and Redagirt H. Laivik ? referred to
> >> in article by Dov Levin which he gave me...Jewish Partisans in the
> >> Forests of Lithuania and Byelorussia during World War 11 (1941-44).
>
> >The reference is: "In his brief intro to his Yiddish song "Singing
> >Forests" (about the meaning of the Jewish Partisan's revenge) he wrote:
> >"I begot this song as I was marching along, and memorised it all the way
> >to the wooden hut - at which point it already had a melody too..." (S.
> >Kaczerginski, I was a Partisan. Buenos Aires, 1952, page 221.
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Abbi
>
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