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Yugnt Himen Youth Hymn
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Yugnt Himen (Youth Hymn) • lyrics by Shmerke Kaczerginski • music by Basye Rubin • choral arrangement by Zalmen Mlotek and adapted by Lisa Gallatin • performed by A Besere Velt May 2017, conducted by Steven Lipsitt • Yiddish lyrics • Yugnt geyt foroys! • Undzer lid iz ful mit troyer • Dreyst iz undzer muntergang. • Khotsh der soyne vakht baym toyer • Shturemt yugnt mit gezang. • Refrain • Yung is yeder, yeder, yeder ver es vil nor, • Yorn hobn kayn batayt. • Alte kenen, kenen, kenen oykh zayn kinder • Fun a nayer, frayer tsayt. • Ver es voglt um oyf vegn, • Ver mit dreystkayt shtelt zayn fus, • Shteyt di yugnt zey antkegn • Funem geto a gerus. • Mir gedenken ale sonim, • Mir dermonen ale fraynd. • Eybik veln mir farbindn • Undzer nekhtn mitn haynt. • English translation • Youth marches forward! • Our song is full of sorrow, • But brave is our cheerful step. • Though the enemy looms at the gate, • Youth storms forth with their song. • Refrain • Young is everyone who wants to be, • Years have no meaning. • The old can be children too • In a newer, freer time. • Those who wander the roads, • Those who set forth with a bold step, • Youth goes out to meet them • With a greeting from the ghetto. • We remember all of our enemies, • We recall all of our friends. • We will forever connect • Our yesterday with today. • Concert narration that preceded this song: • Susan Abeles: My parents were refugees as children. In a testimony my mother prepared for a Holocaust Day commemoration, she wrote, The Germans annexed Austria in March 13, 1938, one day before my 10th birthday. Hitler spoiled my birthday party since none of my friends came. After three years of living under Nazi occupation, my mother's family was on the list to be deported to a concentration camp when they managed to obtain a visa to Cuba. • My father, together with about 700 other Czech children, was saved through the efforts of Nicholas Winton, a remarkable English man, and traveled to England on the last transport prior to the war's outbreak in September, 1939. His parents and sister were later deported to Terezin and were gassed soon after. • Most of the children of the Vilna Ghetto were also murdered, but their voices live on in their Youth Hymn, Yugnt Himen. • Boston Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring • http://circleboston.org/ • The Boston Workmen’s Circle Center for Jewish Culture and Social Justice is a multigenerational community, as well as an arts and culture center, where Jewish identity is rooted in cultural heritage and the pursuit of a better world.
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