Baym geto toyerl By the Ghetto Gate
Creator(s)
- Avrom Akselrod (Lyricist)
- Mark Warshawsky (Composer)
Scope and Content
A topical song about food smuggling in the Kovno ghetto, By the Ghetto Gate draws on the melody of the much-loved "Yiddish alphabet song," Oyfn pripetshik (At the Hearth). Lyricist Avrom Akselrod, a refugee who had fled Poland at the start of World War II, wrote a number of parodic verses in the ghetto. He was killed in July 1944, when German militiamen set fire to his underground hiding place.
Note(s)
Performed by an unknown singer, Bavarian displaced persons camp, ca. 1946
People
- Akselrod, Avrom.
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music.
- Smuggling--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Jews--Music.
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Songs and music.
- Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Jews--Lithuania-Music.
- Singing.
- Musical parodies.
- Jewish ghettos--Songs and music.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in music.
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Songs, Yiddish.
Genre
- Recorded Sound
- Music.
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