Songs of Martyrdom and Hope
Creator(s)
- Isaac Goodfriend (Performer)
Scope and Content
Cantor Isaac Goodfriend, vocals, with unidentified musicians Side A Track 1: Ani Maamim (I Believe). (Hebrew) Text: Traditional. Melody attributed to: Azriel David Fastag. Side A Track 2: Varshe (Warsaw). (Yiddish) Words: Shmerke Kaczerginski. Music: Mikhl Gelbart. Side A Track 3: Shtiller, shtiller (Quiet, Quiet). (Yiddish) Words: Shmerke Kaczerginski. Music: Alex Wolkowiski. Side A Track 4: Di zelbe gasn (The Same Streets). (Yiddish) Alternate title: Tsi darf es azoy zayn? (Must it be this way?). Alternate title: Postludium. Words: Kasriel Broydo. Music: Unknown. Side A Track 5: Moishelekh-Shloimelekh. (Yiddish) Alternate title: Unter di poylishe grininke beymelekh (Under the green trees of Poland). Words: Joseph Papernikov; Music: Israel Alter. Side A Track 6: Dos elnte kind (The Lonely Child). (Yiddish) Words: Shmerke Kaczerginski. Music: Yankl Krimski Side B Track 1: In slobodker yeshiva (In the Slobodka Yeshiva). (Yiddish) Words: Avrom Akselrod. Music: Avrom Goldfaden. Side B Track 2: Yisrolik. (Yiddish) Words: Leyb Rozental. Music: Misha Veksler. Side B Track 3: Eibik (Eternity). (Yiddish) Words: H. Leivik. Music: Sholom Secunda. Side B Track 4: Es vet zikh fun tsvaigl tseblien a boym (This Twig Will Bloom Again). (Yiddish) Words: Kasriel Broydo. Music: Yankl Trupianski. Side B Track 5: Zog nit keynmol az du geyst dem letstn veg (Never Say This is the Last Road). (Yiddish) Words: Hirsh Glik. Music: Daniel and Dmitri Pokrass.
Note(s)
Related collections: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511264 - Oral history interview with Isaac and Betty Goodfriend and https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/bib66420 - Goodfriend's memoir: "By fate or by faith : the saga of a survivor" Cantor Goodfriend performed at USHMM and Days of Remembrance events during the 1990s, and likely donated the recordings during one of his visits.
Genre
- Music.
- Recorded Sound