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Name:	Krakow Ghetto Notebook (CD)
Product Code:	099923729525
Description:	Mordecai Gebirtigs’ song-poems accompanied by renowned composers.
Product Detail:	In 1936, a pogrom occurred in the small town of Przytyk, Poland. In response, Gebirtig, an amateur but talented poet, wrote a revolutionary song that became his most famous, "Undzer shtetl brent!" ("Our Town is Burning!"). The song would prove prophetic of the Holocaust. Later, Nazis destroyed Gebirtig's home and the surrounding Jewish communities forcing his family to live in the Krakow ghetto. There, Gebirtig wrote poems of outrage and confusion, resistance and escape, hope and perseverance, and transcribed them into a notebook. He was murdered in 1942 and his family perished in a death camp but the notebook survived and is now archived at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. Recorded at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. (except tracks 11, 13 & 19), most of the songs are from the original notebook, set to music by several talented composers and are arranged for vocals and guitar and feature violin.
Features:	1 sound disc; 67 min Includes program notes complete lyrics in Yiddish and English
Price:	$19.98

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