The undying flame : ballads and songs of the Holocaust : 110 songs in 16 languages with extensive historical notes, illustrations, piano arrangements, guitar chords, and singable English translations / Jerry Silverman.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Silverman, Jerry

Contributor:

Silverman, Jerry, 1931- editor, arranger of music, writer of added text.

Series:

Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art

Judaic traditions in literature, music and art / Ken Frieden and Harold Bloom, series editors

Language:

Croatian

Czech

Dutch

English

French

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Hebrew

Hungarian

Italian

Ladino

Multiple languages

Norwegian

Polish

Russian

Serbian

Spanish

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Jews--Music.

Jews.

Prisoners' songs--Europe.

Prisoners' songs.

Political ballads and songs.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Songs and music.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music.

World War, 1939-1945.

Genre:

Songs.

Ballads.

Scores.

Physical Description:

1 score (xxix, 304 pages) : illustrations (black and white) ; 28 cm.

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : [s.n.], 2002

New York : Syracuse University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

Staff notation Chord symbols.

Contents:

Illustrations

On translations, musical arrangements, and copyrights

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Die Moorsoldaten = The peat-bog soldiers

Das Einheitsfrontlied = The united front song

Mein Vater wird Gesucht = My father, he was tracked

Das jüdische Kind = The Jewish child

Ich hab' kein Heimatland = I have no native land

Buchenwald- Lied = Buchenwald song

Dachau-Lied (a) = Dachau song (a)

Dachau-Lied (b) = Dachau song (b)

Ballade von der Judenhure Marie Sanders = Ballad of the Jews' whore Marie Sanders

Hans Beimler

Lied der Internationalen Brigaden = Song of the International Brigades

Die Thalmann-Kolonne = The Thaelmann column

Jarama Valley

Viva la Quince Brigada = Long live the Fifteenth Brigade

Si me quieres escribir = If you want to write to me

Venga jaleo = Join in the struggle

Los cuatro generales = The four insurgent generals

Gehat hob ikh a heym = Oh, once I had a home

Vu ahin zoll ikh geyn? = Where, o where shall I go?

Gib a brokhe tsu dayn kind = Bless the child that cries to thee

Mayn marne hot gevolt zayn af mayn khasene = My mother wanted so to see my wedding day

Lid fun bug = Song of the river bug

Makh tsu di eygelekh = Now close your little eyes

Nit keyn rozhinkes, nit keyn mandlen = Neither raisins nor almonds

Tsi darf es azoy zayn? = And must it be this way?

Tsu eyns, tsvey, dray! = So, one, two, three!

Tsigaynerlid = Gypsy song

Far vos iz der himl? = Say, why was the sky?

Shlof, mayn kind = Sleep, my child

Motele fun Varshaver Geto = Motele from the Warsaw Ghetto

Der hof-zinger fun Varshaver Geto = The street singer of the Warsaw Ghetto

Varshe = Warsaw

Minutn fun bitokhn = Moments of confidence

Treblinke = Treblinka

Rivkele, di Shabesdike = Rivkele, the Sabbath-widow

In kriuvke = In the dugout

Unter di khurves fun Poyln = Under the ruins of Poland

Aroys iz in Vilne a nayer bafel = In Vilna was issued a brand-new decree

Vilner Geto lid = Song of the Vilna Ghetto

Shtil, di nakht = Still, the night

Itsik Vitenberg

Yeder ruft mikh Ziamele = People call me Ziamele

S'drernlin feygl = Birds are dozing

Yugnt-himn = Youth hymn

Neyn, neyn, neyn = No, no, no

Zog nit keynmol = Never say

Undzer mut vet nit gebrokhen = Our courage is unbroken = Le chant de Pithiviers = The song of Pithiviers

Mir lebn ebig = We live forever

Ani ma-amin = I believe

Parpar = Butterfly

Skharkhoret = Dizzy

M'khol Masada = Oh, Masada

Mah ko mashma lon? = What Is the meaning?

Le chant des partisans = The song of the partisans

Le maquisard = The resistance fighter

Das Ende = The end

Auschwitz-Lied = Auschwitz song

Zywe kamienie/Die lebenden Steine = The living stones

Frauenlager = Women's camp

Wir singen ein Schlager/We zingen een lied = We're singing a song

Die Westerbork-serenade = The Westerbork serenade

Wenn ein paketchen kommt = When a small package comes

Det har vi = This have we

Przed ostatnią pedrózą = Before the last journey

Warszawo ma = My Warsaw

Pesnia Belostokskikh partizanov = Song of the Bialystok partisans

Katiusha

Svyashchennaya voina = The sacred war

Kak u duba starovo = Standing near the old oak tree

Oi, tumany moyi = Oh, the fog

Ásó kapa vállamon = On my shoulder, spade and hoe

Partigiani in montagna = Partisans in the mountain

Bella ciao = So long, Dear

Scarpe rotte = Worn-out shoes

Domovina = Homeland

Embross, ELAS = Forward, ELAS

Theresienstadt

Theresienstadt, die schonste Stadt der Welt = Theresienstadt, the best town in the world

Bad Blockhaus = Blockhouse Resort

Theresienstadter Fragen = Theresienstadt Questions

Als ob = As if

Der Reisepaß erzahlt = The passport relates

Die Novaks aus Prag = The Novaks from Prague

Die Kosmopolitin = The cosmopolitain

Transport

Diese Emigranten! = These emigrants!

Und die Musik spielt dazu = And the music just plays on

Doch auch für uns kommt mal die Zeit = Yet soon for us will come the time

Dopis = The letter

Motýl = Butterfly

Máj 1945 = May 1945

A mol iz geven a mayse = I'll tell to you all a story

Én még most kicsi vagyok = I am still a little child

Waterlooplein = Waterloo Square

O mis hermanos = O my brothers

Asma asmaton = Song of songs

Bukhenval'dskii nabat = Buchenwald alarm

Lady of the Harbor

Children of Poland

Unter der gelber late = Under the yellow patch

Denmark 1943

Tattoo

Last train to Nuremberg

My name is Lisa Kalvelage

Anton Schmidt

We didn't know

Auschwitz

Rain falls down in Amsterdam

We are here

Kaddish

In memoriam-Warsaw Ghetto

Notes

Bibliography

Index of song titles

Index of first lines.

Notes:

Songs in Yiddish, German, Hebrew, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, Ladino, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Hungarian and English. Words and music by various composers and writers.

Originally published 2002.

Includes introduction and notes and listening recommendations for each song.

Includes bibliography and indexes.

ISBN:

9780815607090

0815607091

OCLC:

1272897051

Publisher Number:

99994631121