en, so they can transfer from yesterday to tomorrow, from generation to generation.
This would make the nicest spiritual monument for Mordechai Gebirtig.
1. Zalman Reizen: Leksicon fun der Yidisher literatur, prese un philologie, oysgabe: farlag Kletskin, Vilne, 1928
2. Yonas Turkow: “Farloshene shtern”, oysgabe: tsentral farband fun poylishe yidn in Argentine, 1953, band 1 (zz 228-234)
3. Itzhak Turkow-Grudberg: “Oyf mayn veg”, oysgabe: tsentral farband fun poylishe yidn in Argentine, 1964, (zz 74-84)
4. Nachman Meizil: “Yidishe temes un yiddishe melodies bay bavuste muzikers”, oysgabe:
farlag “Ikuf”, New York, 1952.
5. Shlita-Shteinits: “ishi hamusika haisruilyut hikalelut” – hotsaat Yehoshua, Tel-Aviv, 1950, z. 167.
6. Mordechai Gebirtig: “S’brent”, 1939-1942, oysgabe durkh yidishe historishe commisie, Krakow, 1946.
7. Mordechai Gebirtig: “geklibene lider”, farlag “Avigdor Shpritser” bay tsentral farband fun galicianer yidn in Argentine.
8. Mordechai Gebirtig: “haeyra boeret”, bahutsaat “Morshes”, beys eydes Mordechai Anilbits, sifreot hapoalim, Isroel, 1967.
9. Israel Shlita: “hamusika haihudit veyotsriya”, “Yehoshua” hatsaat sferim, Tel-Aviv, 1960, z.187.
10. Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur, (tsveyter band). Oysgegebn fun alveltlikhn yidishn kultur-kongres, New York, 1958 (zz 286-290).
11. Z. Zilberzweig: Leksikon fun yidishn teater”, kadoshim band, yidishe aktyorn union in Amerika. Meksiko city, 1967, farlag “Elisheva” (zz 4471-4495).
12. Ber Mark:Umgekumene Yidishe shraiber fun di ghettos un lagern, aroysgegebn in Warshe 1954 (zz 187-194).
13. B. Heler: Antologie fun umgekumene dikhter, aroysgegebn in Warshe, 1951 (zz 49-62).
14. I. Pat: “Ash un fayer”, aroysgegebn in New York, 1946.
15. “Mordechai Gebirtig zingt” – Aroysgegebn :”Ikuf”, Buenos-Ayres, 1963.
16. Zigmunt Turkow: “Di ibergerisene tkufe”, Buenos-Ayres, 1961 (z 106).
17. Michal M. Borwicz: Piesn ujdzie calo…Centr. Komisja Hystoryczna.
Przy C.K.Z.P. Warszawa-Lodz-Krakow, 1947 (zz 287, 234).
18. Seyfer melhomot, Heurhim Itzhak Zukerman vMoyshe Bsuk, Hutsaat Hakibuts Hamaohad, Beys Leumi Hagitaot, 1956 (zz 312,313,315,713,807).
19. Moyshe Prager: Min Hamotser Krati, Mosad Harav Kuk, Yirushalaim, 1954,
(zz 72, 75, 76, 194, 195).
[i] Melos: the succession of musical tones constituting a melody
[ii] Nussach – plural: nusachim – the style of Jewish religious service
* About the translators:
Berta Kipnis was born in Ukraine, immigrated to the US in 1979. In a few years, while visiting Israel with her husband Nahum, she met his great uncle, famous writer for children, Levin Kipnis. Levin, then in his late 90’s, told them the fascinating story about Menachem Kipnis, who was a brother of Nahum’s great grandfather and as an orphan was brought up in the home of Levin’s father in Ukraine.
Ralph Wittcoff Writer and musician Ralph Wittcoff has published fiction in Afn Shvel and played bass in a Yiddish swing band. After many years as a community organizer, he developed an affinity for Yiddish language and culture through playing klezmer.
Mordecha Gebirtig: "The Shtetl Burns" "Hayara Boeret", Moreshet Publishing House, Sifryat Hapoalim in cooperation with the Wajnfer Morgenstern Fund, Israel 1967
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